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X/OS Linux 5.0 Is Now Available

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By Daniel Voicu, Linux Editor

21st of September 2007, 15:07 GMT

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A new version of X/OS Linux, a distribution rebuilt from source RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, has been released.

The X/OS Linux 5.0 package set for i386 architectures combines the package sets from the i386 release of RHEL 5.0 Client and RHEL 5.0 Server, with a few exceptions, to avoid using Red Hat's

trademarks.

The packages: redhat-logos, redhat-lsb, redhat-release, redhat-release-notes and redhat-rpm-config have been renamed xos-logos, xos-lsb, xos-release, xos-release-notes and xos-rpm-config respectively.

All updates released for RHEL5 until 7th August 2007 have been included in X/OS Linux 5.0. More additional packages are also included and Gaim was replaced with Pidgin. A new version of the yum package (3.2.1) is included in this distribution.

Besides these additions, more changes were made to the original packages:

￭ An installclass has been added to anaconda, supporting various alternatives for installing X/OS Linux 5: using the full package set (default) or using only a selected set of repositories, either manually or by using a RHEL5 installation number (see below).

￭ Red Hat trademarks and logos have been removed, particularly affecting package redhat-logos (now called xos-logos). Various other packages also required minor modifications to remove references to Red Hat.

￭ Dependencies of renamed packages have been changed.

￭ Several small changes to spec files have been made, to remove bugs or fix other issues. When applicable, the corresponding Bugzilla ticket numbers are listed in the changelog entries.

￭ An extension has been added to the package release number, to avoid any confusion with the RHEL versions of the packages.

Only a small number of packages from the previous version were removed or replaced and the majority of applications have been upgraded to a new version. Some things are just like in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, for example the moving from up2date to other package managers as yum, pirut, or pup.

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