Fedora Core 3 Test 2 is out

***ewdi*** · #1 20th September 2004, 05:50 PM

Coming soon to a site near you... for the first time, it's the new, digitally remastered, Fedora Core 3 Test 2! Now, you can take home this never before seen four-disc set, chock full of new software and exciting bonus features! Includes hundreds of new and updated packages over the original edition, including: a minor change to the device model, switching from a static /dev to a dynamic /dev provided by udev; SELinux enablement; the GNOME 2.8 release candidate; KDE 3.3.0; X.org X11 6.8.0.

Release Note : http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...-NOTES-en.html

Get them at :
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html

For 64 bit using torrent
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/

Happy bug hunting!

sayeeth · #2 20th September 2004, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ewdi

Coming soon to a site near you... for the first time, it's the new, digitally remastered, Fedora Core 3 Test 2! Now, you can take home this never before seen four-disc set, chock full of new software and exciting bonus features! Includes hundreds of new and updated packages over the original edition, including: a minor change to the device model, switching from a static /dev to a dynamic /dev provided by udev; SELinux enablement; the GNOME 2.8 release candidate; KDE 3.3.0; X.org X11 6.8.0.

Release Note : http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...-NOTES-en.html

Get them at :
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html

For 64 bit using torrent
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/

Happy bug hunting!

Are you like a Sales person?

That sounded so promo, but hey excellent promo!!

Turnip · #3 20th September 2004, 06:12 PM

W00t

FC3 is moving ever closer...

foolish · #4 20th September 2004, 07:55 PM

That's the end of Fedora Core 1. Fedora Core 1 is now moved to Fedora-Legacy.

rkl · #5 20th September 2004, 08:34 PM

You'd have thought that with DVD ISOs of Linux distros becoming quite common that both client apps and Web/FTP sites would handle the 4GB+ of data OK. Sadly, that's not the case - even the official site "Download Server" cannot list either the size or or the date of the DVD ISO of FC3T2 (this has been the case ever since FC2 final was released).

I use "lynx -source" as a reliable way to get the DVD ISO in one go - I would advise against using a Web browser (I don't believe Mozilla or Firefox handle it correctly). For those who are curious, the exact number of bytes of the DVD ISO is 4684781568 (4.36GB) - I got that figure with a plain old command-line FTP to ftp.mirror.ac.uk (which, unlike its days-late mirroring of FC3T1, actually does have a mirror copy on the launch day...yay!).

#6 20th September 2004, 09:48 PM

Great, now we just need as many testers as possible. fc3 should be much better than fc2 (bug wise), but this can only be accomplished if we have testers that will file bug reports.

ddutta · #7 21st September 2004, 01:16 AM

Did a clean install on a Supermicro 915g board with on board graphics. Everything went smoothly .... got done in 20mins. Only issue is that my matlab from my old /usr/local is cribbing about the lack of opengl! I wonder whether there is support for a ATI x300se PCI-E at 1600x1200 resolution.

Cheers
Debo

ailmarfarm · #8 21st September 2004, 02:40 AM

Have they done anything with the dual booting problems? See link below.

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/....cgi?id=115980

I know that it is possible to dual boot, but some of us are not technical enough to do it confidently.
Would be a nice one to fix.

#9 21st September 2004, 02:50 AM

@ddutta
it finished in 20mins!? wow thats fast. did you install everything or just what you need? they recomend install everything for test porposes, and it helps with dependencies, if you have the space.

@ailmarfarm
thats old news. that was for fc2t1. were talking about fc3t1. I am not sure if that problem presists though, but a simple solution is to install windows first and enable LBA mode for your hard drive in the bios. then install fedora.

be sure to file your bug reports!

ailmarfarm · #10 21st September 2004, 04:51 AM

I am aware this thread is for FC 3, thats why I asked the question here, I want to know if it is solved.
Some bios do not have that option, I just downloaded from Packard bell the 'latest' bios flash for my system, applied it succesfully and I still do not have the option to change to LBA mode. My system is only 9 months old.
When I installed FC 2 on my main desktop it installed super quick, I did not time it, but I am sure it was under 20 mins, just the default install though. But 2 or 3 times faster than installing on the old lap top.

mrcbrown · #11 21st September 2004, 05:19 AM

What kernel is shipping with the T2?

linuxbeta · #12 21st September 2004, 05:57 AM

LinuxBeta.com has the screenshots in their screenshot slideshow.

View the slideshow here.

mandala · #13 21st September 2004, 07:48 AM

did anyone notice the 64 version is too big to burn on a DVD?

cylon · #14 21st September 2004, 09:00 AM

Yeah...The way i did it was to copy the iso to another partition and run the installation via harddisk method. Right now i'm trying to make another iso minus the src folder.

p/s: I originally try to burn the originally iso on DVDRW. Does it make any difference? I've heard somewhere that RW disc had a smaller capacity compared to R disc.

ghenry · #15 21st September 2004, 09:23 AM

Anyone tried updating via apt?

I am going to.