[1360] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Rembrandt Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Thu Aug 8 01:38:42 1996
To: linux-afs-bugs@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 01:37:44 EDT
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
Apparently the next release of RedHat (Rembrandt) is now in beta. If
we go with Redhat for the standard distribution (which I'm in favor of
unless Debian is a lot better), we should at least track what's going
on with it. From http://www.redhat.com/redhat/
<quote>
Red Hat Linux Rembrandt is a public beta-test version of Red Hat
Linux. Its outstanding new features include:
Modular 2.0.9 kernel
One kernel for all hardware
Support for much more hardware.
Easier installation.
Easier X Windows configuration.
New network configuration tool.
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) for increased system
security and configurability.
Latest stable version (5.3.12) of the standard Linux libc.
</quote>
In any case, we may want to at least support this as much as possible.
The key things I see which we may want to do are:
* getting Linux-AFS to work with a fully modular kernel
* making sure things work with libc 5.3.12
* (optional) seeing if we can use PAM for hesiod/kerberos login
stuff instead of a customized login binary
(and seeing what else this can give us)
--- Erik
