Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1: Look but Don't Touch
With the release of the first beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, eWEEK Labs was looking forward to getting an early look at the progress Red Hat has made with the platform since RHEL 4. Unfortunately, Beta 1 of Version 5 is too flaky for even testing purposes.
The biggest problem we encountered was RHEL 5's thoroughly broken software management system. In RHEL 5, Red Hat is moving from up2date—the software installation and update front end to RPM (Red Hat Package Manager)—to yum, the software tool that's fronted the past few Red Hat Fedora Core releases. Red Hat is also moving RHEL to the same graphical package installer, Pirut, and graphical package updater, Pup, that have graced recent Fedora releases.
We have not been particularly impressed with Pirut or Pup in the past—we much prefer the set of graphical package management tools, anchored by the excellent Synaptic, that ship with Ubuntu Linux—but yum has always worked well for us from the command line. However, when we tested RHEL 5, back-end troubles with Red Hat's repositories nearly prevented yum from working at all. (The update and install commands we issued worked for us about 10 percent of the time.)
Along similar lines, RHEL 5 includes some interesting-looking new tools, but the tool didn't work for us.
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