Fedora Core 4 Test 3 Available

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."

Re:Real world vs. fanboy fantasies

[Anonymous Coward]

i dont know whats scarrier,

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

can't resist...

[clambake]

root# emerge fedorea/core4
Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "fedorea/core4".

Damn...

Re:Is this site becoming /.Freshmeat?

[Anonymous Coward]

Because this is one of the biggest and most popular Linux distros around. You'll see this for Ubuntu, Mandrake, Debian... etc.

Stop being a whiner and put up with the one post every few weeks about a new release of a MAJOR LINUX DISTRO.

Frickin' babies.

handling of 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system

[ArbitraryConstant]

I have an AMD64 system, but I'm on the 32-bit Debian because the AMD64 Debian is a pure 64-bit system. I need 32-bit binaries sometimes and I don't fancy setting up a chroot with 32-bit libraries just so I can use them.

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

Re:handling of 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system

[Kelson]

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I checked www.fedorafaq.org and found a link to the following (slightly out-of-date) FAQ for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 [linuxtx.org]

Thanks

[ArbitraryConstant]

My search didn't turn that up. Thank you. :)

Re:handling of 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system

[4of12]

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).

Re:handling of 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system

[ArbitraryConstant]

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

ewwwwwww

I can think of a few ways, but they all make my head hurt.

Well, I don't need to mess with the library paths so whatever hack they have will work.

Thanks you. :)

Re:handling of 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system

[Per Bothner]

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.

apt4rpm

[stedo]

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.

Re:apt4rpm: yes. yum: yes

[rdieter]

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).

Re:apt4rpm

[guacamole]

For some reason the apt that's distributed with by the Fedora Legacy project can't install the updated kernel rpms which pretty much made me switch back to using yum. Does apt4rpm you're talking about have the same limitation?

Re:apt4rpm

[stedo]

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.

repository

[XO]

anyone got an apt-repository on this, so I can point my existing FC setup to it?

I have this release install now

[hey]

Runs OK for me.
But I seem to have lost some desktop icons.

i386? Come now...

[Heliologue]

I'd seriously consider using Fedora Core if it wasn't built for i386. Why in the world would I pay for a nice modern processor and not take advantage of it? Otherwise, it's a well-supported distro that looks and works great with some minor tweaking. This is why I use Gentoo.