pre-release & general availibity release

[Scott Berry]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Cornette" <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: pre-release & general availibity release


> charles f. zeitler wrote:
>> what's the difference(s)
>> between them?
>>
>> charles zeitler
>
> The pre-release is aimed at making the general availability release 
> better. Usually there are only three releases for testing before the 
> general release.
> - Test1 is for the first release that contains newer items as well as not 
> containing discontinued programs or programs that moved to Fedora-Extras.
> - Test2 is a refinement of the relatively untested test1 run. New programs 
> are still allowed. I assume packages can be reverted to earlier versions 
> if problems arise or packages moved/discontinued at this stage.
> - Test3 is a feature freeze stage where no new packages should be 
> introduced. Just refinements of packages should happen.
> - FC6-pre was introduced because of wanting to allow more testers the 
> ability to actually install the test editions. Some problems prevented 
> successful installation of test3. This was an out of the ordinary release.
> - General availability release. This should be refined with input from 
> more testers allowed from the additional pre-release run. There are some 
> bugs like one for the Matrox video card that might need special handling 
> to get the installer to complete.
> The most noted change is that an option to the installer that allows using 
> different video drivers has changed. The old "linux vesa" option. (If it 
> existed) was chjanged to "linux xdriver=vesa" - With this change, you can 
> choose xdriver=intel for example or a driver which you know works for your 
> system.
>Jim,

I am relatively new to Fedora how would I getthe test release for my 
father's computerA?  Do I just do a yum upgrade or will he need to visit a 
certain web site?

Scott
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