Evening:
I've been playing, if you can call it that, with Red Hat 6.9 for the past
few days. Apparently, there are still some issues with it. The install
went great up until the point where it normally automatically detects my
graphics card. I have a Cirrus logic GD544x model card, and
Xconfigurator in Red Hat 6.2 and prior has always detected this card. Not
so with 6.9. Also, it doesn't appear to come up with the correct default
screen size. Possibly I screwed up entering the parameters, but I never
had to do this before :)
Other than that, the text based install is much smoother. It looks like
they caught all of the glitches from before, but I noticed small
oversight. On the screen where it asks if you want to make a custom
bootdisk, the back button is no longer there. This may be
intentional. No idea.
The machine booted up, but I got a few errors about insmod something or
other. Also, it seems to be starting up a lot of additional things now on
boot up.
First thing I noticed was that there was no inetd.conf in /etc. Further,
mail appeared to be working to allow me to send it out, but I got
absolutely nothing back in. /etc/hosts no longer had two entries, 1
for localhost and one for my hostname and IP address (I get assigned
by DHCP), but instead had everything grouped on one line under
localhost. Also, telnet and ftp seemed to have problems as well. This
may be the new way of configuring the system as it was positively secure
from the standpoint that I couldn't do anything remotely :)
The look and feel is still Red hat, and it looks like they have nice new
stuff. I did a full install, and it looks like the requirements jumped
from about 1.2 GB to 1.8 GB.
Anyone else have any comments or tried the 6.9 distribution yet? Anyone
got it working correctly? Maybe I'm just not configuring stuff properly.
If this is the wrong place to post feedback about the release, please
kindly re-direct me to where it should go. *Pulls out flame-retardent
suit*
Thanks
- Mike
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