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Fedora Core 2 test1 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the many-eyes-make-shallow-bugs dept.

GerritHoll writes "A test release of Fedora Core 2 is now available from Red Hat and at distinguished mirror sites near you, and is also available in the torrent. Fedora Core has expanded in this release to four binary ISO images and four source ISO images. This test release is specifically designed for testing the 2.6 kernel, GNOME 2.5, and KDE 3.2. Please file bugs via Bugzilla, Product Fedora Core, Version test1, Architecture i386 so that they are noticed and appropriately classified. Discuss this test release on fedora-test-list."

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  1. install problems by British · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I upgraded to Fedora Core on one machine, and about a week later, boom, both ethernet cards stopped working.(still trying to investigate).

    So I thought I'd piece together a system to try Fedora again. let me tell you, if you have a spare Quad-speed CD-ROM drive laying around, throw it out. I made the mistake of trying to install with that. Every 20 minutes or so, it says xxx package is corrupt. I hit OK, it proceeds.

    Oddly enough, I remember specifying NO to installing a news server, yet it installs it anyway, along with 10000 other things I don't ever find myself wanting or needing.

    Did I mention it's been installing untattended since Sunday? I occasionally hit OK on the "corrupt package" prompts. The bar graph is about 45% and it says it only has a mere 3000 minutes remaining!

    yay!

  2. Re:Hurry Up... by macdaddy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    What if you can't stand RH9 though? What if you absolutely can not stand what the morons at RedHat did with libraries like Kerberos and SASL? What if you can't stand the static linking the RH morons used in numerous inncouous packages? I have RH9 on a server of mine. The only reason I installed it was 7.3 didn't support the SATA controller integrated into that SuperMicro 6013P-T. 7.3 booted of course but that was it. 9 was my only choice at the time (until I could roll a replacement kernel with SATA support). If it wasn't for that I'd have never gone to 9.

    I'm preparing to give Gentoo a whirl. I've heard good things about it. I need a replacement for RH on all my servers and I'm hoping Gentoo can live up to my needs.