Fedora Core 2 test release 1 now available!
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Thu Feb 12 15:15:19 UTC 2004
"Get off the stage, you old hack!"
"I only got 24 hours to hack, and I ain't gonna waste
it on this OS."
Ah, but wait...
FLAMING DEATH!
I hold in my hand, the release that determines whether hundreds
of bugs live or die, this very evening!
In a moment, I will open the mirrors, leading to the release of
this test OS!
Aimed directly at this release date are GNOME 2.5, KDE 3.2, and
XFCE 4.0.3, our desktop triumvirate!
These desktops will be resting on the 2.6 kernel, trained to perform
the most scalable of tasks in just milliseconds!
This software's only hope of survival is our community's crack
team of developers... secured to their high speed network lines, they
will descend to hack on this software, spinning a web of stability
in less than 8 weeks!
Not good enough, you say?
Well, what if they were all BLINDFOLDED!
Ladies and gentlemen, may I suggest that those of you with weak
constitutions leave the arena, for this act is so dangerous that
if the slightest thing should go wrong...
kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
Yes, it's time for the first test release of Fedora Core 2.
This release is the first Fedora Core release to include
the 2.6 kernel, GNOME 2.5, KDE 3.2, and XFCE. Testing of all
of these areas would be appreciated, above and beyond any
other testing.
As always, test releases are not intended for use on production
environments. Use of test releases in production environments
could lead to FLAMING DEATH!
Problems with Fedora Core 2 test 1 should be reported via
bugzilla, at:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
Please report bugs against 'Fedora Core', release 'test1'.
Some technical notes:
- Fedora Core 2 test 1 is currently only available for i386-compatible
architectures. x86_64 will appear in a later test release.
- The only boot methods supported for the installer are via CD,
and via methods such as PXE. There are no boot floppies.
- Upgrades via anaconda are very untested; test at your own risk.
Upgrades of systems with their root filesystem on LVM is known
to not work.
- Due to a release error, the CD and PXE boot images support booting
only on i686 or higher processors (this includes Athlons). This
will be rectified in a future test release; in the meantime, you
can upgrade via up2date or yum.
For more information on just what the Fedora Project and
Fedora Core is, please see:
http://fedora.redhat.com/
For discussion of Fedora Core test releases, send mail to:
fedora-test-list-request at redhat.com
with
subscribe
in the subject line. You can leave the body empty. Or see:
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list/
As always, you can get Fedora Core test releases at redhat.com, specifically:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/1.90/
Or on the following mirrors:
* North America
* USA East
* ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/1.90/
* http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/1.90/
* ftp://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/1.90/
* rsync://mirror.linux.duke.edu/fedora-linux-core/test/1.90/
* http://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/fedora/linux/core/test/1.90/
* ftp://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/1.90/
* http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/test/1.90/
* ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/test/1.90/
* rsync://mirror.hiwaay.net/fedora-linux-core/test/1.90/
* USA West
* ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/fedora/test/1.90/
* ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/core/test/1.90/
* Canada
* ftp://ftp.nrc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/fedora/linux/core/test/1.90/
* Europe
* Czech Republic
* ftp://ultra.linux.cz/pub/fedora/test/1.90/
* ftp://ftp6.linux.cz/pub/linux/fedora/linux/core/test/1.90/
* Germany
* http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora-core/test/1.90/
* ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora-core/test/1.90/
* ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/fedora/linux/core/test/1.90/
* rsync://rsync.uni-bayreuth.de/fedora-linux-core/test/1.90/
* ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/pub/linux/Mirror/ftp.redhat.com/fedora/core/test/1.90/
* Netherlands
* ftp://alviss.et.tudelft.nl/pub/fedora/core/test/1.90/
* Romania
* http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/core/test/1.90/
* http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/core/test/1.90/
* rsync://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/fedora.redhat.com/core/test/1.90/
* United Kingdom
* http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/test/1.90/
* ftp://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/test/1.90/
* rsync://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/fedora-linux-core/test/1.90/
* Asia/Pacific
* Japan
* ftp://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/Linux/fedora/core/test/1.90/
More mirrors will come online in the near future; check:
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
for a list of mirrors that carry Fedora Core.
One additional feature provided by the Linux community is the
availability of Fedora Core releases via BitTorrent.
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/FC2-test1-binary-i386.torrent
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/FC2-test1-src-i386.torrent
RPMS for Red Hat Linux 7.3 through 9 and Fedora Core 1 of BitTorrent are
available from:
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/btrpms/
Usage is simple:
btdownloadcurses.py --url http://URL.torrent
Allow incoming TCP 6881 - 6889 to join the torrent swarm.
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/
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