>     Announcing...
>                           Red Hat Linux "Fisher"
>                              (a beta release)
> 
>     Red Hat, Inc. presents a beta release of Red Hat Linux for your
>     hacking pleasure.  First, the regular drill:
> 
>        This is a beta release of Red Hat Linux.  It is not intended for
>        mission critical applications.  It`s not even intended for
>        non-mission critical applications.  Important data should not be
>        entrusted to Fisher, as it may eat it and make loud belching
>        noises.
> 
>     Significant changes have been made since the last version of Red Hat
>     Linux, including a shift to a 2.4-based kernel.  We need your help to
>     find and report bugs.  You can enter bug reports for any problems you
>     might find by using bugzilla at:
> 
>       http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
> 
>     PLEASE SEARCH FOR EXISTING BUG REPORTS BEFORE YOU ENTER A NEW REPORT!
>     Patches are always appreciated, so include them if you can.
> 
>     As in Red Hat Linux 7, this beta is large enough that the binary
>     packages have been split between two ISO images.  The installation
>     program handles reading packages from multiple CDs.
> 
>     *  Where can I get this release?
> 
>     Fisher can be downloaded from our public FTP site at:
> 
>        ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/beta/fisher
> 
>     With the support of volunteers ftp site administrators, Fisher is
>     available from several mirrors.  The following sites have complete
>     copies of Fisher, so please use a mirror close to you:
> 
>     Indiana, USA:
>        http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/fisher
>        ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/fisher
> 
>     Minnesota, USA:
>        ftp://ftp.mn-linux.org/linux/redhat/beta/fisher
> 
>     Buffalo, New York, USA:
>        ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/mirror/Linux/redhat/beta/fisher
> 
>     Pennsylvania, USA:
>        http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/beta/fisher
>        ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/beta/fisher
>        rsync://carroll.cac.psu.edu/redhat-beta/fisher
> 
>     Australia:
>        ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/beta/fisher
>        http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/beta/fisher
> 
>     Please also see our official mirror list:
>        http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html
> 
>     as more of the mirror sites may have picked up the beta by the time
>     you read this.
> 
>     *  What's new in this beta?
> 
>        General system improvements:
>          o Itanium(tm) architecture support is included
>          o Installer has many improvements and fixes, including basic
>            firewall configuration
>          o Workstation installs are network-secure (services are off by
>            default)
>          o Japanese support fully integrated
>          o Graphical kickstart configuration program included
> 
>        Core system components:
>          o kernel 2.4.0 + many fixes
>          o glibc 2.2.1
>          o XFree86 4.0.2
>          o XFree86 3.3.6 X servers included for maximum hardware
>            compatibility
>          o KDE 2.1 beta release snapshot
>          o GNOME libs 1.2.8, core 1.2.4
>          o GCC 2.96-RH
> 
>        Expanded hardware support:
>          o Improved USB
>          o IDE UltraDMA 66/100
>          o IEEE1394 (FireWire(tm))
>          o ATM networking
>          o WiFI wireless ethernet cards
>          o ESS Maestro3 and newer Crystal audio
> 
>        System service changes:
>          o New network-transparent configuration subsystem
>          o Configuration tools for BIND, Apache, and printing
> 
>        A sampling of package upgrades:
>          o GIMP 1.2.1
>          o Tcl/Tk 8.3.2
>          o BIND 9.1.0
>          o Pine 4.32
>          o Vim 6.0 prerelease
>          o XMMS 1.2.4
> 
>        A sampling of Package additions:
>          o OGG/Vorbis audio encoder/decoder
>          o Mozilla
> 
>     * Status of Red Hat Network:
> 
>        rhn_register, the registration client for Red Hat Network, is
>        included, but registrations for the beta will not be accepted.
> 
>        However, up2date will be fully functional in anonymous mode, and
>        we encourage people to make use of this functionality.  We will
>        be attempting to synchronize our fixes with Update Agent on a
>        nightly basis, so if you report a problem and it gets fixed, you
>        can get a new version of that particular package on the following
>        day.
> 
>     * Major known issues:
> 
>        o PCMCIA support is touch-and-go; upgrading computers reliant on
>          PCMCIA may not work at all.
> 
>        o Systems that include both floppy and IDE ZIP devices will fail
>          to install; a fixed boot disk has been made available to
>          correct this problem:
> 
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/beta/fisher/en/updates/images/fisher-upddsk1.img
> 
>     A README file describing how to use the update is also in that
>     directory.
> 
>        o Minimal installs do not support NFS out of the box.  Install
>          the portmap package afterwards if you require this
>          functionality.
> 
>        o Partitionless installs and upgrades are not currently working.
> 
>        o Applications using dlopen() to load threaded libraries (such as
>          kdm) may crash with the i686 version of glibc. Additionally,
>          the i686 version of glibc only supports 2.4-based kernels.
> 
>          If you are experiencing problems such as the one described
>          above, or need to run a 2.2-based kernel, install the i386
>          version of glibc by running:
> 
>             rpm -Uvh --force glibc-2.2.1-3.i386.rpm
> 
>        o X and KDE have known failures on Itanium.
> 
>     Enjoy!
> 
>     The Linux OS Development and QA Teams
>     Red Hat, Inc.
> 

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