Fedora 9 - Alpha

[strikeforce]

Well for those people that have vmware or the like and want to give Fedora 9 - Alpha a go the cd/dvd iso's will be released tonight.

The more stable a release the more testing we as the community need to do the devs can only go so far.

If you haven't got a virtual environment go get one. KVM, Xen both are easy to set up. VMWare is really easy and you don't have to pay for it so go get it set up and install Fedora 9 on it

it wont be officially released the Alpha till the 31st though, so why bother getting it now?

[Evil_Bert]

Any particular problem with installing on a spare partition(s) ..... I mean, I assume the Grub version bundled with F9 is stable, so it's not going to stuff up my F8 install?

EB, are you signed up to the Fedora-test-list, i dunno how stable it is as of yet but from what iv'e read a few have had problems with X, it shouldnt stuff your F8 install up

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by Evil_Bert

Any particular problem with installing on a spare partition(s) ..... I mean, I assume the Grub version bundled with F9 is stable, so it's not going to stuff up my F8 install?

I use debian's grub for booting all my installed O/S

[SlowJet]

Originally Posted by Demz

it wont be officially released the Alpha till the 31st though, so why bother getting it now?

That was the whole idea of the early iso's.
Test the rawhide that Alpha is being created from to expose the bugs that stop it from installing, booting up and being in a state to do yum updates.

Other tests can be done also for after Alpha fixes - like minimum install. The other gui's, custom partitioning, custom package selection.

And of course, testing the odd ball program config's. Like all the ssl parts for Apache.
A full blown ntfsv4 server with SELinux.

And on and on and on...there is no off switch on the rawhide machine.

SJ

Originally Posted by SlowJet

That was the whole idea of the early iso's.
Test the rawhide that Alpha is being created from to expose the bugs that stop it from installing, booting up and being in a state to do yum updates.

Other tests can be done also for after Alpha fixes - like minimum install. The other gui's, custom partitioning, custom package selection.

And of course, testing the odd ball program config's. Like all the ssl parts for Apache.
A full blown ntfsv4 server with SELinux.

And on and on and on...there is no off switch on the rawhide machine.

SJ

fair enough, well lets hope its a smoother Distro than F8 is/was ..i already read someone hates the New GDM , im curious to see what it looks like

[strikeforce]

I haven't tried it as of yet I'm still waiting for the iso's my understanding is that there are a lot of changes in the distro.

With 5500 packages compared to 4500 in Fedora 8 that 1k increase is getting me excited. I'm more about the bug testing personally since I enjoyed F8 and I'm hoping F9 will be better.

Lots of bugs will come up and KDE 4 is included.

[SlowJet]

I think it is only temp because the real one broke due to KDE 4 and sessions?
How can one hate a white box?
I hate terminal. I hate OOwriter, I hate gedit. And I really, really hate this 1" text box! lol

I think F8 is the best yet. Look at my new uptime record.
[root@Ruthie-07 ~]# uptime
04:27:43 up 3 days, 5:00, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.17, 0.11

SJ

[Evil_Bert]

Originally Posted by Demz

EB, are you signed up to the Fedora-test-list,

Not yet, but I'll look into it.

@Leigh - thanks for the tip.

[Thetargos]

I really, really gotta get my test machine put together soon.

[blitzo]

I might as well give it a try.