Fedora Core 2 Schedule Up

An anonymous reader writes "The Fedora website has posted a schedule for their second release. " Now that the 2.6 Kernel is out, I imagine all the major distributions will have updates relatively soon.

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2.6.0 RPMs are already out

[The One KEA]

Arjan van der Ven has a directory here which has RedHat RPMs available for 2.6 and all of the userspace components needed to run it properly.

Re:2.6.0 RPMs are already out

[Wesley Felter]

Those RPMs have been pretty much obsoleted since 2.6 is in rawhide.

Re:2.6.0 RPMs are already out

[rgmoore]

It's already available on the testing channel for Fedora. If you have the updates-testing in your yum configuration, you can update to 2.6 with a yum update.

Re:2.6.0 RPMs are already out

[rgmoore]

My mistake. It's not under updates/testing. It's under development. Also, FWIW, I found that I just got a 404 if I tried using the addresses in the original yum.conf. I got much better results when I updated mine to include (for updates-testing as an example):

baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/ fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/$releasever/$bas earch

I'm not 100% certain that the equivalent directory for development (which would be /pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch) is a valid yum channel, but it ought to work if you want to keep on the bleeding edge of things. That looks to be roughly the Fedora equivalent of Rawhide, with newer goodies. It does include kernel-2.6.0-0.1.14.i686.rpm.

Sounds like folks are already.....

[tcopeland]

...having good experiences with the current Fedora release. Good to see this working out.

2.6.0 experiences

[xchino]

I know alot of this was mentioned last night when the story of the kernel release came out, but I thought I'd mention it anyways.

There are two new interfaces to configuring the kernel. xconfig (based on QT) and gconfig, as well as the old menuconfig. I only tried xconfig and menuconfig, but they both worked fine and more quickly than their predecessors.

When compiling your kernel, drop the make dep and make clean and just #make bzImage modules modules_install. It might just be my imagination, but it seems like it took half the time to compile 2.6.0 and modules as it did for 2.4.23-pre6 which I was using.

If you get an error message like QM_MODULES: Function not implemented you haven't gotten the module-init-tools for 2.6.0 installed.

Nvidia users need to patch the nvidia-kernel sources with the appropriate diff from http://www.minion.de and apply before installing your new nvidia.o. My install went like this (Gentoo 1.4):
1. Get the nvidia-kernel package
#emerge -f nvidia-kernel
(if it's not already is /usr/portage/distfile)
2. Extract nvidia-kernel
#sh NVIDIA-Linux-...-pk0 --extract-only
3. Patch driver
#cd usr/src/nv
#patch -p1 NVIDIA_Kernel-1.0.4496-2.6.diff
#ln -s Makefile.kbuild Makefile
#make install

Hope this helps someone out there, I spent an hour or two googling to figure this out, so I hope I can save someone the trouble :)

Re:2.6.0 experiences

[The Analog Kid]

If your using Gentoo, then just emerge nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, and portage will autodetect you running the 2.6 kernel and automatically patch it for you.

Re:Hopefully Not

[the_2nd_coming]

it is a test bed, but it is not rawhide. it is a normal user distrobution. everything is stable and works well. the test bed is just a place for issues to be workedout on system design.

Re:Hopefully Not

[Alan Cox]

There is plenty of time between now and when FC2 is released for that kernel to stabilize further and old drivers get tidied up (if anyone actually uses them any more). The core stuff is looking very solid and passes test suites that killed early 2.4.x

Re:Lets hope the new glibc will be out before fedo

[the_2nd_coming]

umm, if it is part of the next version, when you apt-get upgrade, or yum update, you should have a fedora 2 system working fine.

Re:Very Important -- Please Note.. (Time/Screensho

[koekepeer]

nice way to increase karma, very professional

especially the MOD THIS UP part is hilarious. slaughter.edu... very funny.

this guy is a very impolite, crap-posting troll

check his recent posts (especially the insults written in CAPS). i don't care if this costs me (offtopic, troll, whatever) karma, please mod parent according to his behaviour.

Re:Very Important -- Please Note.. (Time/Screensho

[baximus]

Check out advanced Fedora 2 Test Screenshots for some great eye candy!

If you actually look at the page, and look at the date at the bottom - Last update October 14th, 2003. - you'd realise that these are screenshots from Fedora Test 2, not Fedora 2 Test. That is, it's the second Test release prior to Fedora Core 1.

Re:Boot CD's with 2.6?

[grahamdrew]

There are some experimental Gentoo LiveCDs for x86 using the 2.6 test kernels at http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/x86/liv ecd/

Not too useful if you're trying to run off the CD, but not bad if you want to test 2.6 compatability or need a rescue CD.

Re:i agree

[Anonymous Coward]

that's what Planet CCRMA is...audio, musician, 3d applications for RedHat distros. HOWTO's and rpms. They recently started supporting Fedora.

Unfortunately this stuff is in extreme flux at this point...a lot of is is pulled from CVS and even massaged by the CCRMA group at Stanford.

It would take hours upon hours for Joe User to do this kind of thing, if not days, if even reasonable...and they are not going to do it if they are a musician and not a Linux geek...this is really a different situation from the usual mail, web server, security, etc stuff that a admin really needs to know, in a way it's like clustering or rendering, a special use--and these applications are getting their own distros pretty fast.

Another big different is a cluster or render farm guy is probably already a hardcore computer geek--whereas this is much less likely the case for a musician.

A Musician's distro is probably coming in the near future for these reasons. Might as well be Fedora, if so, and be Knoppix like :-)

Re:Lets hope the new glibc will be out before fedo

[AstroDrabb]

I am using Fedora Core 1 now and find it very stable, fast and well put together. The only problem is that it is a little "bleeding" edge for 3rd party apps. My Netlock VPN client doesn't work with the stock FC1 kernel so I had to install a Red Hat 9 kernel. I cannot get the Corda graphing server to run, and various issues with the newer NPTL and glibc stuff that requires patches to get Oracle to run. Though with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 with similar packages, the 3rd party support should pick up soon. Overall it is a good desktop, especially with freshrpms.net to get tons of extra packages.

Re:Lets hope the new glibc will be out before fedo

[T-Ranger]

Uh, the whole point of Fedora Core 1 is that it is bleeding edge. If your want something that is stable, FC-1 isnt it.

Re:Boot CD's with 2.6?

[AlXtreme]

That's Morphix damnit, next thing they'll be calling it Muppix and expecting green frogs jumping around...

Anyway, main reason is that cloop needs to be ported to 2.6 and everyone's too lazy to do it. Klaus is busy as hell, and everyone else is waiting for Klaus :-)

Re:Lets hope the new glibc will be out before fedo

[AstroDrabb]

As I posted, in my experience FC1 is just as stable as Red Hat has been for me. I have not had any stability problems with it at all. The only problems I have ran into is with 3rd party applications that do not yet have support for the newer NPTL, glib or exec-shield.

Re:Lets hope the new glibc will be out before fedo

[macemoneta]

Sure you don't want to use it for a long term server

Your mileage may vary, but I'm not having any problems with Fedora Core being used as a server. It's been running since the day it was first available for download, with zero downtime.