CentOS - Dec 2015 - CR getting 7.2 packages......

Heads-up to everyone: CR is getting CentOS 7.1511 (aka '7.2') 
packages..... just updated using CR, and, yeah, GNOME 3.14 is a bit 
different from 3.8...... several things are in different places on the 
screen.  I did have to re-setup my triple monitor settings to have the 
laptop's display in the center and the two other displays as one on the 
left and one on the right.

The good side is that nothing major seems to have broken.

Update for me was 1,260+ packages totaling about 1.3GB and taking a 
grand total of about 25 minutes, start to finish (prior to the reboot).  
Hardware is a Dell Precision M6500 Core i7 740QM with 20GB of RAM, all 
but /home on a 256GB SSD with /home on an HGST 1TB HDD.

Kudos to the build team for the quick turnaround, and for the CR repo.

On 3 December 2015 at 06:29, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
> Heads-up to everyone: CR is getting CentOS 7.1511 (aka '7.2')
> packages..... just updated using CR, and, yeah, GNOME 3.14 is a bit
> different from 3.8...... several things are in different places on the
> screen.  I did have to re-setup my triple monitor settings to have the
> laptop's display in the center and the two other displays as one on the
> left and one on the right.
>
> The good side is that nothing major seems to have broken.
>
> Update for me was 1,260+ packages totaling about 1.3GB and taking a grand
> total of about 25 minutes, start to finish (prior to the reboot).  Hardware
> is a Dell Precision M6500 Core i7 740QM with 20GB of RAM, all but /home on
> a 256GB SSD with /home on an HGST 1TB HDD.
>
> Kudos to the build team for the quick turnaround, and for the CR repo.
>
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Thanks for the heads up; looking forward for 7.2 and +1 for the splendid
job done by the CentOS dev team.

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Kind Regards
Earl Ramirez

On Wed, 2 Dec 2015, Lamar Owen wrote:
> Heads-up to everyone: CR is getting CentOS 7.1511 (aka '7.2') 
> packages..... just updated using CR,
Did the same update on a virtual host at Digital Ocean. No problems 
whatsoever.

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On 02/12/15 21:29, Lamar Owen wrote:
> Heads-up to everyone: CR is getting CentOS 7.1511 (aka '7.2')
> packages..... just updated using CR, and, yeah, GNOME 3.14 is a bit
> different from 3.8...... several things are in different places on the
> screen.  I did have to re-setup my triple monitor settings to have the
> laptop's display in the center and the two other displays as one on the
> left and one on the right.
> 
> The good side is that nothing major seems to have broken.
thats good to hear - there are quite a few rebases and a lot of new
added functionality in the new release. In the coming weeks, I will try
and visit some of these via blog posts, videos etc. If anything specific
pop's up, let me know.

regards


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On Thu, 3 Dec 2015, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> thats good to hear - there are quite a few rebases and a lot of new
> added functionality in the new release. In the coming weeks, I will try
> and visit some of these via blog posts, videos etc. If anything specific
> pop's up, let me know.
I can report much better stability of Gnome3 with nVidia graphics than with
7.1 (which we found woeful), and so far, other than one significant but minor
issue I've filed, I'm happy as larry with CR.

jh

On 12/03/2015 06:16 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 02/12/15 21:29, Lamar Owen wrote:
>> Heads-up to everyone: CR is getting CentOS 7.1511 (aka '7.2')
>> packages.....
>> The good side is that nothing major seems to have broken.
> thats good to hear - there are quite a few rebases and a lot of new
> added functionality in the new release. In the coming weeks, I will try
> and visit some of these via blog posts, videos etc. If anything specific
> pop's up, let me know.
>
Looking forward to seeing some of those.  For what it's worth, the 
system feels significantly more responsive; also, my Win7 VM on KVM has 
had a nice measurable speed boost; the disk score in the Windows 
experience index was 5.9 before, now it's 7.2 (wish there was more than 
a 1.0 for graphics, but, oh well).

All of my normally used programs are working just fine after the update, 
including (and especially!) the commercial DAW program Harrison Mixbus 
(I am using 3.0.2257).  Everything feels more responsive.