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Fedora Core Release 3 Released
anyweb writes "Fedora Core Release 3 is out now, Heidelberg, 2.6.9-1.667 kernel, Firefox included ! Gnome 2.8 and more.
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Maybe just use apt and yum to upgrade
The recommeneded way to upgrade is to use installer (annaconda), some people have reported problems using yum or apt.
1) Download FC3 ISO images
2) Burn them to CDs
3) Put on the FC3 cd and click on upgrade
can't get any easier than that. I wouldnt want to use yum or apt because of the GCC upgrade.
and wasn't just a Fedora issue. I hadn't heard about it, as I don't run Windows on my home machine, until I had to install it here at work. The main thing is to not let it futz with the partition tables at all during an install.
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Six months. It's always six months. You need to download them sooner, perhaps. ;)
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
If you are in Europe and looking for a fast mirror, try this one (i386; x86_64 is here).
80 minutes after the release and my bandwidth and HDD speed is still not maxed out
(IAAAOTS - I am an administrator of this server).
-Yenya
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While Linux is larger than Emacs, at least Linux has the excuse that it has to be. --Linus
Pretty much any company that releases both consumer and business software uses the consumer software to test the waters and once it seems okay they make the fixes and sell it to businesses along with 5 year contracts. Thats just business, get over it. At least Red Hat isn't ripping off the consumer, the Fedora development model isn't too much different then it was with the RH desktop distro... but the community kept complaining that it wasn't free and Red Hat made very little money (something like 3 million dollars) from its desktop version so they released it to the community as Fedora. Now the consumer gets probably the highest quality linux distribution avaialable, along with a huge supporting community. I use Fedora because it is stable, but has the latest and greatest. It is the only distro that runs on my laptop, and it is the only distro that I have been able to reliably install on just about any machine. If you haven't had the pleasure of using it, I would suggest you do so.
Regards,
Steve
It works very well. To upgrade from FC2 to FC3 using yum do:
Then watch it churn. Of course, if you have third-party software installed, you may want to wait till your vendors catch up with FC3.
If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
We couldnt fit the sources and binaries on one DVD either.
Three easy steps to installation bliss: 1) Put each ISO image into an NFS share on a remote computer. (You don't even have to unpack the images -- as some HOWTOs suggest.)
/var/local/nfs/fedora/tettnang/).
2) Burn only the first ISO to CD-R. Upon boot (from CD-ROM), when the "Linux:" prompt appears, enter the following:
linux askmethod
3) Profit! Uh... No. Actually, after a: selecting NFS from the list and b: requesting (DHCP-enabled networks) or specifying an IP address, c: enter the NFS server's IP address and the NFS path where the ISO images are located (not the mount point, the actual path from the root -- e.g.
And that's it! If you're connecting over Fast Ethernet, your installation will be unbelievably fast -- and you can avoid having to swap CD-ROMs as you go.
Yes, just get the "boot.iso" (about 5MB) and use that, point it to an FTP/HTTP server with the RPMs, and it will pull them down.