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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."

8 of 25 comments (clear)

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

    this?

  2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. 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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    Open Source Sushi

    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.

  5. 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.