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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. Re:I know Fedora is supposed to be bleeding edge by Junta · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'll wager Gentoo will have it first ;)

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  2. Test? by mbbac · · Score: 0, Troll

    OK, the new Fedora thing has me a bit confused. This is a test release. Is that different from any other Fedora releases? I thought they were all going to be test releases. Is there going to be a stable or production release?

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  3. I hope it is better.... by tiger99 · · Score: 0, Troll
    ...than Fedora Core 1, which was utterly useless,even to me, a fairly experienced Linux user. Most of the configuration utilities were either just not there, or badly broken, the sort of thing that really puts new people off. I could make it do most things that I wanted by editing config files, but there is just not enough time for all that, even if, to me, it is quite easy.

    I do wish they, and all distros, would dump RPM, which is the cause of most of the problems, and also ensure that updates can be downloaded by those with only a modem and an ISP that times out every 2 hours. FC1 offered me some updates of over 100MB (one file), and the download could not be resumed after timeout. I even tried doing it, with fixed local IP address, from behind another machine running IP Masquerading, that re-dialed quickly every time, and FC1 should only have seen a pause in connectivity, yet it stopped completely every time. That was the final nail in the coffin.

    I was far too busy to investigate, but know that, for example, wget can be configured to resume partial downloads, so I guess they were not using wget, which I must confess is one of my favourite little utilities, because it works well.

    All of this could have been avoided by a decent automated mechanism for source patching, the downloads would only be incremental. In most of the world it is far, far easier and cheaper to have enough CPU speed and disk space to do compiles than to get a broadband link, and it will remain so for some time to come. It is time that the various distros recognised this, which is one of the main remaining problems which will limit growth of Linux on the desktop. We don't need any more half-finished distros, just a few finished ones, which are easier to install and configure than a popular but badly broken OS. It is not much of a task to do better than M$, surely? Come on developers, let us see this side of things fixed once and for all.