Any early adopters try RH9 allready? I’m going to setup a separate partition and try it this weekend.
If you want RH9 you can download it here:
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/rh9.html
It’s bit torrent which works fine with linux(can’t get it to work with opera though, but it works fine with galeon).
Actually just installed it here.
Naturally its not binary compatible with 8.0; or 7.X; which means maya is broken. Thats okay though I’m working to rectify it now.
cool, let us know what you have to change. Especially since on paper RH9 is what RH8 should have been.
I started another thread on this subject.
apparently therse alot of library changes from 8 to 9 (too many if you ask me)
I was thinking about just upgrading my current RH8 to 9 so I wouldn’t have to reinstall and recompile everything, but now that you said that I will definatly setup a separate partition for RH9. Doh! My weekend is shot now 
. Recompile, watch tv, recompile, watch tv, hehe.
Now that I think about it, I think Ill just use VMware so I can continue to work on maya while I set up RH9. You wouldn’t happen to know if it is possible for more than one linux operating system to share the same swap space? I’m guessing it would cause problems because the left hand doesnt know what the right hand is doing and could try writing in the same place at the same time causing corruption of the file system. I know when I launch win2k in VMware it write protects the raw drives that mount in win2k.
Good news beaker
I’ve solved the problem of getting maya to execute in rh9
its much simpler than the solution for debian and all too.
Goes as follows; install all the compat-libs off the CD’s
then edit the maya startup script
and change this
case Linux:
set lib = lib
set lsFlags = ‘-l’
breaksw
to this
case Linux:
set lib = lib
set lsFlags = ‘-l’
setenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.4.1
breaksw
save
and maya will execute normally.
thats all there is to it
;>
will post this in the other RH9 threads as well