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Fedora Core 3, Test 3 available

Posted by timothy on from the and-the-count-is-three-and-three dept.

Allen Zadr writes "Today, the Fedora team has released Fedora Core 3 - Test 3. Just a little behind schedule. It's available for AMD Opteron and Intel i386, with CD or DVD images. To get it, join the torrent. Core 3, Test 2 was previously discussed."

25 comments

  1. AMD64 Version? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    [fp] No AMD64 version of it? [/fp]

    1. Re:AMD64 Version? by madhippy · · Score: 4, Informative

      this?

  2. Behind schedule? Bullshit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    behind schedule my ass, did you actually LOOK at the schedule link you posted to?

    BITE MY SHINY METAL ASS

  3. Release notes by dtfinch · · Score: 3, Informative

    I didn't see a link in the announcement.

    Release Notes

    Not that much in the release notes have changed since Test2.

    According to diff:
    Kernel and e2fsprogs support for online growing of ext3 file systems.

    C++ and TCL bindings are no longer contained in the compat-db package.
    Applications requiring these bindings must be ported to the
    currently-shipping DB library.

    Fedora Core 2.92 Test 3 has switched from a static /dev/ directory to one
    that is dynamically managed via udev. This allows device nodes to be
    created on demand as drivers are loaded.

    1. Re:Release notes by Allen+Zadr · · Score: 3, Funny
      It's my first accepted story submission, ever. When I found the release and saw it wasn't on Slashdot yet, I was so excited, that I forgot to look for and find the release notes.

      Sorry about that.

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    2. Re:Release notes by baywulf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I don't know what the big deal is with submissions getting accepted.

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      Ronald Pippaquale

    3. Re:Release notes by dtfinch · · Score: 1

      Red Hat didn't link to the release notes either. Had to go hunting.

  4. Is this the time to download? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As a recent Fedora user who REALLY wants the new Gnome and Xorg, is there ever any big differences between the final release and the final test?

    1. Re:Is this the time to download? by noselasd · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Big ? no. Enough small bugs fixed to make you go crazy using a -test release for your main desktop/server, yes.

  5. Front Page? by poofyhairguy82 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    With this site being so pro-linux, I'm amazed this stuff isn't put on the front page. Would be nice, the torrent could use some more!

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    1. Re:Front Page? by dtfinch · · Score: 2, Informative

      Non-Fedora users complained about the last one, that such small updates (like test1->test2 or test2->test3) to a single distribution shouldn't be front page material.

      If you go into your preferences, you can make it appear on your front page.

    2. Re:Front Page? by burns210 · · Score: 1

      Is it easy to update the distro from within the distro? Can you run a script?

      I would like to see the GUI for YUM have this feature, personally. Be able to stay current 100% from the yum application

    3. Re:Front Page? by secondsun · · Score: 0, Troll

      Must... resist... urges....

      emerge -u world

      AHHH GODDAMNIT!

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    4. Re:Front Page? by dtfinch · · Score: 1

      I would suspect it goes something like this:

      1) Edit your /etc/yum.conf to point to the new repository.
      2) yum -ty update

      Then hope for the best, and check the mailing list archives for fixes to problems others have run across using this method.

    5. Re:Front Page? by burns210 · · Score: 1

      The Ubuntu version of Synaptic(i believe), the graphical package manager for Apt, is as easy as any version I have seen. It is comparable, in my opinion, to Freebsd's ports system is ease of use and options. Very nice software, I wish we would either have Synaptic support source-based and rpm packages as well, or move to .debs... These standards should just happen, redhat needs to bite the bullet and give up on rpm, if they can'r release good, graphical easy-to-use software for it(like yum, which again, imo is good software for the command-line).

      1 program for each category of software use(office, IM, email, calcultator, chat, etc).

      All options have a graphical program that can be used to access them.

      All programs are inherintly graphical, (gui IRC over irssi) if there is not a compelling reason to have 2 version of the same functionality of software.

      Where practical and logical, have a gui and command-line version of software(firefox and lynx, vi(or something more simple, woudl be great) and OO.o or jedit,etc. wget and nautilus.

      *sigh*

      Oh well, that is just what i WISH fedora was, or any distro... ubuntu being the closest yet...

      But then again, I would like to see a netBSD-based distro using ncurses as a graphical(text-based, actually) interface with plug-and-play like settings for easy use on the power user's desktop.

  6. Keep up the good work!! by julie-h · · Score: 1

    I looking forward for the final release!! Evolution 2.0, GTK and Gnome to name just a few! =)

    Keep up the exceeding well done work!!!

  7. Behind Schedule? by superpulpsicle · · Score: 1

    Wha? That's 3 Fedora core major versions released in 1 year, and 2004 still has 2 months left. This pace is insanely fast.

    1. Re:Behind Schedule? by reverius · · Score: 1

      wow, you're right! when i first read your comment i doubted its correctness. so i went to check myself.

      http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/

      fedora core 1 was released Nov 5, 2003, core 2 on May 18, 2004, and core 3 (final) is scheduled for Nov 1, 2004.

      that's slightly over 2 releases per year, average (and 3 releases within a 365-day period)!

  8. so, what about "that issue" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Sure, you'll mod me down as a troll for this, but I'll ask.

    I use Fedora core 1 and 2 myself, but I don't recommend FC2 to anyone for a simple reason: it will erase your windows XP partition tables.

    Sure you can (usually) get it back, but when I'm trying to introduce people to Linux the last thing I need to do is get them scared to do anything because they 'might' erase their stuff.

    At the time, this was acknowledged as a problem in the Kernel used in the install process and that it wasn't limited to Fedora. Fine, but nobody fixed it. In fact, when I would ask if it's been fixed, the usual response is jokes about "what, that's a GOOD thing it erases M$-WINDOZE!!!11"

    So I've asked it before and I'll ask it again, does Fedora Core 3 have "that issue" fixed? The trolls and jokes will form at the end of this post.

    1. Re:so, what about "that issue" by rdieter · · Score: 4, Informative

      I use Fedora core 1 and 2 myself, but I don't recommend FC2 to anyone for a simple reason: it will erase your windows XP partition tables.


      To be precise, the problem was limited to FC2's boot/install kernel, and it only corrupted partition tables for folks not using LBA (and it was fixable, by the way). For the record, all subsequent kernels (including what FC3 uses) has the issue fixed.
  9. nvidia problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Didn't check it with test3, but current fc3 kernels don't run with the vanilla nvidia driver due to
    recent changes in the kernel.

  10. Does it support Netgear WIFI out of the box? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Or one has to do kernel callenetics to get it? (If yes to support, how is the security?)

    TIA

  11. Linux NOT for Idiots (yet)! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Arghhh, the secondary effects of MS's two-click installation, and Linux buying into it.

    Since when are "introductions" effortless, especially when dealing with an operating system? But a bit of googling and reading will go a long way.

    Simple solution: don't use a test distribution to introduce people to linux. There are plenty of newbie distros in the wild, and if support is required and you are stuck on Fedora buy the commercial version of Fedora -> RH.

  12. what by fedorafreak · · Score: 1

    they need to just put out the damn final relase damn i hate waiting

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