CR Getting 7.2 Packages……

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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.

4 thoughts on - CR Getting 7.2 Packages……

  • Thanks for the heads up; looking forward for 7.2 and +1 for the splendid job done by the CentOS dev team.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.