FC6- Test 2 - Pushed Back One Week

***bob*** · #1 11th July 2006, 11:16 PM

Just got a message from Jeremy Katz:

Due to a desire to integrate the DT_GNU_HASH changes for binutils and
glibc (which provide an ~ 50% speedup for dynamic linking) and the
necessity of doing a rebuild for these changes, we are going to slip the
freeze for FC6 test2 by one week. The new freeze date will be
Wednesday, 19 July 2006. This should also allow a few other things that
are straggling time to be tested a little bit more in time for the
feature freeze at test2.

I've got to mention that I've been running FC6-T1 since the first day and find it to be excellent in almost every respect. I firmly believe that this will be the best FC release to date and that the delay will be well worthwhile.

hiberphoptik · #2 11th July 2006, 11:40 PM

any information on the progress of including a functional aiglx? the wiki has no new news. i have xcompmgr working on FC5 and also compiz/xgl but it would be nice to have something "built into" the distro

***Firewing1*** · #3 11th July 2006, 11:43 PM

Yes - Any news for nVidia users would be cool, too - It's annoying we can't use AIGLX yet: No open DRI.
Firewing1

***bob*** · #4 12th July 2006, 01:56 AM

Unfortunately, you have the full content of the message. Why not try an email to someone involved in the production?

cruiseoveride · #5 13th July 2006, 04:45 AM

i dont mind waiting an extra week, better than changing kernel a 100 times ,
how many kernels has fedora 5 got, they even released one just recently.

***bob*** · #6 13th July 2006, 05:11 AM

Yep, FC6-T1 just had 370 transactions including updates and cleanups. Quite a major item (and yes, yet another kernel). Still some glitches of course, and I've got a half-dozen bugzillas running, but any time you can go through 180+ updates, then cleanups and a new kernel and still boot is a good day! Still running my original FC6-T1 and no re-installs have been necessary.

ELD · #7 13th July 2006, 09:45 AM

Can't wait to try FC6 once it comes out, FC5 was a little dissapointing for me, ubuntu is good, but a bit lacking a lot of things...

mbokil · #8 13th July 2006, 04:24 PM

Quote:

It's annoying we can't use AIGLX yet: No open DRI.

I was able to get translucent windows, drop shadows working with XFCE4.3 beta 2 using X.org's compositor extension. It is pretty freakin' cool. The new installer for XFCE4 has an option to compile in compositor features. At first I thought transparency was gimicky then I realized you can do some cool things. I set all my background windows to ghost out at 20% opacity. So if I middle click on the titlebar I can see all open windows behind my foreground window. I then just click the transparent window and it springs to the foreground. No more moving around windows to get to the one underneath. With one click you can see where all your open windows are on the desktop.

I have attached screenshot of the new compositor features in XFCE4.3 beta 2 running on FC5. It works well with Nvidia cards. The easiest way to install the beta is to use the installer off their website.

cruiseoveride · #9 14th July 2006, 04:09 AM

i dont know why, but i tried to use xfce and just got frustrated.

RahulSundaram · #10 14th July 2006, 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hiberphoptik

any information on the progress of including a functional aiglx? the wiki has no new news. i have xcompmgr working on FC5 and also compiz/xgl but it would be nice to have something "built into" the distro

AIGLX is now part of Xorg 7.1 and is already in the development tree. It wont be enabled by default since COMPOSITE extension of Xorg that AIGLX uses does not work on all hardware. It is easily enabled by changing options in the configuration file.

#11 14th July 2006, 12:48 PM

Quote:

i dont know why, but i tried to use xfce and just got frustrated.

shame.. really is cool.. altough all those effects would be manageble in any gnome , kde . etc etc etc etc environment

**Finalzone** · #12 15th July 2006, 12:51 AM

Hopefully the new icon theme will make it for FC6T2. I posted a message to get a quick look on http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=117309

jamdusr · #13 19th July 2006, 07:36 PM

Does anyone here know when the FC6 T2 iso will be available?
(I know the freeze date was today 7-19-06) Thanks

***bob*** · #14 19th July 2006, 08:59 PM

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Core/Schedule - however, there's another message from Jeremy Katz:

With the update to a 2.6.18-rc based kernel, Xen requires some more
effort to get to working. Given that Xen is one of the big features for
Fedora Core 6, trying to ship the second test release (and thus the
feature freeze) without Xen seems like a less than ideal situation.

Therefore, after discussion within the Fedora Board, we have decided to
slip the freeze for test2 until Xen is working again with current
kernels. Based on current estimates, it looks like this should
hopefully be Monday, 24 July. We'll continue to provide updates as more
information is available.

Jeremy

***Firewing1*** · #15 20th July 2006, 01:20 AM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but because it's the final test 2 freeze, all the packages going onto the ISO's are also in the repos. The difference between test 1 and test 2 ISO's is the newer Anaconda installer on test 2 and of course, the newer packages. I'd just install with Test 1, and then do a update. Reboot, and you'll have test 2 with the only difference of you don't have the new install process.
Firewing1