[Linux-ia64] new Red Hat Linux ia64 beta release available

[Linux-ia64] new Red Hat Linux ia64 beta release available

[Bill Nottingham]

For those people not on the general Red Hat announce lists, a new
beta release of Red Hat Linux for ia64 is available. From the
general announcement:

    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.

...

    You can enter bug reports for any problems you
    might find by using bugzilla at:

      http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/

...

    *  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
...
    * Major known issues:
...
       o X and KDE have known failures on Itanium.

As always, there is a mailing list to discuss the IA-64 release. To
subscribe, send mail to ia64-list-request@redhat.com with

subscribe

in the subject line. You can leave the body empty.

You can also subscribe to the general Fisher discussion list; to 
do so, send mail to fisher-list-request@redhat.com in a similar
manner (subject of 'subscribe', empty body).

Bill