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Fedora Core 4 Test 3 Available

Posted by Zonk on from the who-doesn't-love-testing? dept.

rexx mainframe writes "The Fedora Project would like to announce the release of Fedora Core 4 test 3; currently scheduled to be the final test release before Fedora Core 4. Included in this release are many various bugfixes, updated translations, and package updates. Please report problems at: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Fedora Core 4 Test 3 is available from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux /core/test/3.92/ and at the mirrors."

7 of 24 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Real world vs. fanboy fantasies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    i dont know whats scarrier,

    MS Office Specialist
    Amigan
    or sending the post into the future from 2004

  2. Re:handling of 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system by Kelson · · Score: 2, Informative

    I haven't worked with 64-bit versions myself, but my understand is that yes, Fedora Core and yum will handle parallel installations.

    I checked www.fedorafaq.org and found a link to the following (slightly out-of-date) FAQ for
    Fedora Core on AMD64: http://www.linuxtx.org/amd64faq.html

  3. apt4rpm by stedo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does Fedora Core 4 still use yum or will it move to apt4rpm? I don't mean to flame the yummers, but in my experience, apt4rpm is far better. And, in terms of GUIs, Synaptic works far better than gyum or yumex. Also, does it have NTFS support out of the box? That seemed to be the biggest complaint about FC3, that anyone dual-booting had to download the kernel module, realise you had downloaded the wrong module, check kernel version, download the right module, and finally modprobe it.

    1. Re:apt4rpm by stedo · · Score: 2, Informative

      No, I downloaded kernel 2.6.10 from AtRPMS and it installed fine. BTW I got my apt from the DagApt repo, which might be a different version to the Fedora Legacy project.

  4. Re:handling of 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system by 4of12 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Does the AMD64 Fedora handle 32-bit and 64-bit libraries in parallel?

    Fedora Core 3 x86_64 seems to, sort of.

    My FC3 x86_64 system has both

    /usr/lib
    /usr/lib64
    and other lib64 directories hanging around.

    I can't say that I fully comprehend how all this works with ld.so, LD_LIBRARY_PATH,. etc.

    That is, I'm occassionally beset with complaints from the loader that look like 32 64 bad interaction (eg, some Python stuff).

    --
    "Provided by the management for your protection."
  5. Re:handling of 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system by Per+Bothner · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IIRC, I did try out an Emacs that I had compiled on 32-bit FC3, as also Sun's 32-bit JDK 1.4. Both seemed to work fine without needing to do anything special on a test install of 64-bit FC4.

  6. Re:apt4rpm: yes. yum: yes by rdieter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    apt for i386-only systems. Only yum is "officially" supported/blessed, but apt is/will-be available in Fedora Extras , but not x86_64 because apt doesn't handle mixed i386/x86_64 systems (yet).