Unix Users Meeting

August 27, 2003

Fermi Linux 9.0.1

FUE certification is in process

Fermi Linux 712

Released as 712 on August 27, 2003

UPDATED/Added since Fermi Linux 7.1.1a

OpenAFS -- Fermi version

The OpenAFS rpm's have been updated to use openafs 1.2.8. This was mainly done to incorperate the various patches that had to be made for the kernels.

Yum – is in and autorpm is out

Troy has written a rpm that will move autorpm out and move yum in for the case were the default autorpm config file has not changed.

ups/upd bootstrap

Upgraded to include latest fullFUE as of November 15, 2002

Includes fix to setpath which fixes a fermi kerberos vs redhat kerberos issue.

fixes a problem with cmd adduser not making the /etc/shadow file correctly.

zz_fermi-logos-7.1.1-2.i386.rpm

This rpm is a collection of various icons, logo's, and startup screens used to Fermize the release. RedHat does not want other to use the RedHat logo without permission.

Mozilla

Mozilla 1.2.1 came out with loads of bug fixes as well as features that many people were waiting for. We have found that it is as stable, or more stable, than those before so we decided to use it.

OpenSSH

Added openssh 3.5 The old ssh is still there. It is the split version where ssh server is in a different rpm. This is just like it is now on 7.3.1a .

kernel

RedHat released a new errata kernel. 2.4.18-27f1. This has been patched by me to fix 2 problems .

• There was a bug that could cause the kernel to panic under heavy load

• The Redhat patch changed the semantics of /proc/<pid> for processes where the uid was not equal to the euid.

This means that we get new features and new device drivers that before were only available with 8.0 ,9.0 .

This is both the installer kernel and the installed kernel. These floppies do not work for scsi installs, you will need to use the prior version floppies.

KDE

KDE 3.0.5 provides various service enhancements over KDE 2.1 as well as two security corrections (the personal web server (KPF) may permit a remote user to retrieve any file readable by the local KPF user, and the PostScript® / PDF viewer (KGhostview may execute arbitrary code placed in a PS or PDF file). This was upgraded by Troy.

zz_sshd_aklog

Makes sure that the sshd config file and afs get along.

RedHat ERRATA

Lots of errata

Packaging

DVD --> expected

There are 3 cd's now. The first 2 are used for the install. The third has contrib/ , misc/ etc.

MISC

Kernel 2.4.18-? vs 2.4.20-?

more device drivers

sata

bluetooth

better device drivers

firewire

ide

usb 1.1 vs usb 2

different scheduler 0(1)

updated memory management

netdump

serverworks OSB4 chipset

serverworks OSB4 chipset has hardware design issues which can cause disk data corruption if used with udma

2.4.18- defaults to no dma but allowed udma to be set ~~ 27MB/s

2.4.20- limits you to dma ~~ 13MB/s

Support

RedHat stops support on December 31, 2003