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Fedora Core 3, Test 3 available
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."
[fp] No AMD64 version of it? [/fp]
behind schedule my ass, did you actually LOOK at the schedule link you posted to?
BITE MY SHINY METAL ASS
I didn't see a link in the announcement.
/dev/ directory to one
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
that is dynamically managed via udev. This allows device nodes to be
created on demand as drivers are loaded.
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?
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Wha? That's 3 Fedora core major versions released in 1 year, and 2004 still has 2 months left. This pace is insanely fast.
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.
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.
Or one has to do kernel callenetics to get it? (If yes to support, how is the security?)
TIA
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.
they need to just put out the damn final relase damn i hate waiting
RUN linux its just so much better