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Red Hat Fedora Core 4 Test 1 Now Available

Posted by timothy on from the are-ipods-plug-and-play-yet dept.

krunchyfrog writes "The first test release of Fedora Core 4 is now available from Red Hat and at distinguished mirror sites near you, and is also available in the torrent. New features in Fedora Core 4 test 1 include previews of GCC 4.0, GNOME 2.10, and KDE 3.4, as well as support for the PowerPC architecture. Please file bugs via Bugzilla, Product Fedora Core, Version fc4test1, so that they are noticed and appropriately classified. Discuss this release on fedora-test-list. -- The BitTorrent link is already there."

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  1. Quick RPM Version Check by rimu+guy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just been poring over the new RPM versions...

    I see FC4 includes MySQL 4.1.10 a nice wee jump up from 3.23. Apparently RedHat are now happy with the MySQL licensing terms.

    It has Eclipse 3.1, dovecot, bash 3 (with debugger), Tomcat 5 (but only 5.0, not the declared stable 5.5.7), Xen 2. And that is about all that caught my eye.

    Having just been recompiling the RHEL4 sources I'm struck by how similar the versions all are. I'm presuming that rhel4 split off fc4 or vice versa a month or two back. I'd be curious how/if they co-ordinate all the patches and source code between the two different brands.

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    1. Re:Quick RPM Version Check by tbspit · · Score: 5, Informative

      They seem to have used a 2.0 beta version of OpenOffice.org as well (rpm has version 1.9.83).

    2. Re:Quick RPM Version Check by Baal+Sebub · · Score: 5, Informative

      It's already in DistroWatch. Check it out for a quick overview of package versions.

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  2. Re:Can I update FC3 to FC4 Test 1 using yum? by irchs · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, just update the to the relevent fedora-release rpm and make sure the yum version of FC4T1's version, and run yum upgrade Jan

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    Jan
  3. Re:Hope they get more bugs sorted out before relea by davidkv · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can find answers to most of (all?) your problems here:
    http://www.fedorafaq.org

    Shipping NTFS and MP3 is encumbered with legal problems, that's why they're not included by default. Google can tell you that within seconds.

  4. Re:RHEL4 vs Fedora Core 4 for a home server by LnxAddct · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its important to note however that the 6-12 month reinstall cycle doesnt include a full format. Going from FC1 to FC2 certainly caused some minor problems for some folks, but since then I've seen very few complaints about being able to upgrade through yum and/or just inserting the CDs and updating. So in that regards its not too much different then a Service Pack in Windows world, except its a really really effective and useful service pack:) Also, Fedora legacy will support it for 1.5 years at a minimum and possibly more if the community sees interest in it. I'm looking really foward to this release, seems to have a ton of potential (although Core 5 seems like its going to be the big release of this year once Fedora Extras gets all figured out)
    Regards,
    Steve