La nueva beta, llamada Fisher incluye el kernel 2.4 y está dividido en 2 CDs de binarios.

Lo más interesante es que incluye configuración básica de firewall en el instalador y, al fin, los servicios de red están desactivados por defecto.
Lo mas curioso es que incluye un 2.4.0 con “many fixes”(?).

–ricardo

* 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

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