CentOS-4.1/alpha beta release notes
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CREDITS:

- For the unmentioned, but you know who you are. I wasn't 
quite confident of making release with only ancient hardware
but i got ES45, so i started all over again and now i do have
some 'pretty recent hardware' to support this thingie.

- AlphaCore-project. I had some of the mods made on my own, but
being able to use patches from this project, really speeded up
my final (past week) progress of making it usable for rest of the
world.

- Red Hat Inc. for keeping the sources publically available

- The coders whom make the sources.

- Whom ever i forget in this.


MISSION:

- The CentOS-4/alpha is just being project, where i have been
trying to keep most of the sourcebase intact, so it would be 
long term maintainable release which would have security updates
for future too.


MODIFIES SRPMS:

acpid-1.0.3-2axp_dummy.src.rpm
alsa-lib-1.0.6-5.RHEL4axp.src.rpm
anaconda-10.1.1.19-1axp.centos4.src.rpm
beecrypt-3.1.0-6.1.axp.src.rpm
bogl-0.1.18-4axp.src.rpm
booty-0.51-1axp.src.rpm
compat-gcc-296-2.96-132.7.2axp.src.rpm
compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-47.3axp.src.rpm
db4-4.2.52-7.1.1axp.src.rpm
ethereal-0.10.11-1.EL4.1axp.src.rpm
evolution-2.0.2-16axp.centos4.src.rpm
firefox-1.0.4-1.4.1axp.centos4.src.rpm
gcc-3.4.3-22.1axp.src.rpm
glibc-2.3.4-2.9axp.src.rpm
kdesdk-3.3.1-2axp.src.rpm
kernel-2.6.11-1.1180axp_FC3.src.rpm
libaio-0.3.103-5axp.src.rpm
libgnome-2.8.0-2axp.src.rpm
mkbootdisk-1.5.2-1axp.src.rpm
mozilla-1.7.8-1.4.1axp.centos4.src.rpm
openssl096b-0.9.6b-22.3axp.src.rpm
oprofile-0.8.1-11axp.src.rpm
pwlib-1.6.5-11axp.src.rpm
rhpl-0.148.2-1axp.src.rpm
screen-4.0.2-5axp.src.rpm
thunderbird-1.0.2-1.4.1axp.centos4.src.rpm
xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.6axp.src.rpm


So the list isn't that bad still. Notably there are kernel and php,
which arent' derived from the CentOS-4 codebase at all. I really
did have time to hammer these now as i really want to pack this up
for public testing as beta.

INSTALLATION NOTES:

- Tested (and built too) on ES45 (quad-1Ghz) w/ Radeon 9250 PCI-graphics.
- SELinux isn't working perfectly, so permissive mode would be your friend.


Regards,

Your CentOS-4/alpha maintainer
Pasi Pirhonen <upi@iki.fi>