Fedora Core 2 Test 2 Released 264
Kalak writes "Fedora Core 2 Test 2, part of the project's goal to 'work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software', has just been released - this test release 'is specifically designed for SELinux testing, as well as testing the 2.6 kernel, GNOME 2.5, and KDE 3.2.1.' Get a copy from one of the mirrors or grab a copy via BitTorrent. You probably want the binary only Torrent."
Yipee (Score:5, Interesting)
Bueno (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm not horribly ign'nt, but I'm obviously no genious either. Somewhere along the line /dev got all dicked up and stuff stopped working. So to stop the bitching, it's great to see a faster-than-average turnaround by the Fedora guys. Will be installing this (and checking config files to see where I went wrong-- LEARN from your mistakes, people) tonight.
ACPI and kernel (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Not the first project to do this? (Score:5, Interesting)
look at the united linux [unitedlinux.com] page. looks very 'commercial' to me, you can't even find a download link easily, or can you even download it?
while the fedora page has a nice and simple download link.
Re:Not the first project to do this? (Score:3, Interesting)
What is UnitedLinux?
UnitedLinux is a standards-based, worldwide Linux solution targeted at the business user and developed by Conectiva, The SCO Group, SuSE, and Turbolinux.
and since Suse was bought by Novell, and United Linux was really 99% Suse...can we say "poof" UL is no more.
MP3 support? (Score:5, Interesting)
YMMV (Score:3, Interesting)
It just worked... (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Not the first project to do this? (Score:2, Interesting)
TurboLinux is one of the most popular distros in Asia, and Suse is the most popular distro in Europe, in addition to being the #1 Linux distro on the mainframe platform.
I think if Red Hat really had the best interests of the Linux community in mind, they would have joined the UL project at the beginning, anyway, instead of trying to "go it alone" with their own marketing and distro environment. Then they start the Fedora project as yet another offshoot in a community that has lots of them already... when is it too much?
I mean, nerds like us
I tried fedora, had a terrible time with it (Score:1, Interesting)
so, its a distro of redhat that is not compatible with... redhat
whats the point in that?!? im not trolling here, im genuinely curious.
Re:Anyone have any experience with Gnome in Fedora (Score:3, Interesting)
I hope its better than Test 1 (Score:4, Interesting)
How to get my favorite package in Fedora? (Score:3, Interesting)
re: NTFS (Score:5, Interesting)
i've asked redhat repeatedly to explain, and they have refused to give a straight answer. first they claimed it was "stability issues", claiming NTFS would "corrupt memory", but wouldnt give any examples and clammed up when i asked for clarifications. then they suddenly changed their story to "legal issues", but again clammed up when asked to explain. patents? copyrights? trade secrets? no answer.
it ain't legal issues -- unless you can point to NTFS patents. and it ain't copyright issues either -- because the code was written from scratch. the codebase for NTFS was developed much the same way as the codebase for SAMBA -- from publically available documentation and reverse engineering. if redhat has a legal problem with NTFS then they shouldnt be distributing SAMBA either.
it also strikes me very odd that they would include FAT filesystems which DO have patent issues, but exclude NTFS which does NOT.
Re:YMMV (Score:2, Interesting)
Maybe this step from the previous reply's link is important:
"Now you have installed the kernel, you have to remove
Re:How about giving Fedora its own topic/icon ? (Score:2, Interesting)
[1] Taken from a glossary about hats: [villagehatshop.com]
FEDORA ( fe doe ra ) Men's soft felt hat with brim and lengthwise crease in crown , adopted by women. The name Fedora was after the heroine of Victorian Sardou's drama presented in Paris in 1882. Also TYROLEAN HAT, ALPINE HAT, HOMBURG.
So as long as there isn't a new logo within the distro, the red hat fedora icon should be ok.
Re:Just finished installing on my desktop (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Yipee (Score:3, Interesting)
-Sound hasn't worked ever. It used to not even detect my soundcard but now does (still no sound).
-X refused to start on kernel upgrades until I modified some settings to configuration files. That was just plain rediculous to have to do that.
-Double-clicking on PDF's has never worked. I have discovered that Gnome PDF Viewer doesn't work period. XPDF works great though.
-Occasionally Update has just plain refused to work. Could be issues with mirror sites.
-Occasionally GToaster locks the system up.
-Mozilla (1.6) occasionally flakes out for no apparent reason.
-By default, there are lots of CLI commands that just aren't there (such as ip). This is beyond annoying.
-My scroll weel on my PS/2 mouse does very strange and inexplicable things.
-Weather Report applet (2.5.6) no longer retrieves weather forecasts
-The clock occasionally reverts back to military time even though it is set not to
-To date, Linux has never correctly configured my HP PSC 750xi scanner (the printer part works great though by default). Installing HP's driver makes it work
-NTP time syncing has never worked
-CD drives behave strange in inexplicable ways occasionally
Overall? Usable but lots of issues. Not for faint of heart. Test 2 may be better. YMMV based on your hadware/software configuration.