On 16 June 2011 01:20, R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Gordon Messmer wrote: > >> Nothing that Red Hat did has increased the burden on CentOS. > > so says the person who has not done it > > - the rpm tool changed, adding a non-backward compatible > compression scheme. as I blogged about months ago; this has > 'flow through' effects as to bootstrapping a new builder > > - the anaconda changes, re-design as to install stages, sever > deprecation of TUI installs, unfixed graphics driver issues, > and install time anaconda 'seeks' across the wire to remote > network content introduced addotional complexity to an already > ever-changing and at best, spaghetti like pile of Python puke, > as I've already noted on this and the -devel mailing list > Yeah the bugzilla report of the hard crash on initialisation of X during install of the 64bit betas of RHEL6 on my dell e4200 were closed with the status of feature request. At the time i tested with fedora 12 / fedora 13 and the 32 bit beta all of which were fine. Maybe RHEL7 will be more polished "out the gate" mike