Fedora 12 Beta now available!

**RahulSundaram** · #1 2009-10-20, 08:23 AM CDT

Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release every six months. We have reached the Fedora 12 Beta, the last important development milestone of Fedora 12. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of Fedora 12, scheduled to be released in mid-November. We invite you to join us and participate in making Fedora 12 a solid release by downloading, testing, and providing us your valuable feedback.

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

Of course, this is a beta release, some problems may still be lurking. Should you trip across one of them, be sure it gets fixed before release by reporting your discovery at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Thank you!

What's New in Fedora 12? Look at the official announcement at

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg00006.html

lovenemesis · #2 2009-10-20, 12:07 PM CDT

Cheers!

I published this news in simplified Chinese on LinuxTOY:

http://linuxtoy.org/archives/fedora-...-released.html

OainjaQakanj · #3 2009-10-20, 01:32 PM CDT

Great. How to yum from 11?

**RahulSundaram** · #4 2009-10-20, 05:30 PM CDT

Hi,

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrad...dora_using_yum

brunson · #5 2009-10-20, 07:15 PM CDT

Quote:

Originally Posted by lovenemesis

Cheers!

I published this news in simplified Chinese on LinuxTOY:

http://linuxtoy.org/archives/fedora-...-released.html

Can we see it in complicated Chinese? ;-)

**scottro** · #6 2009-10-20, 07:35 PM CDT

@Oainja, if you do that, please post your results. I've had some go beautifully (F8 to F9, I think) and others fail horribly. (F10 to F11). On the other hand, I never have typical installations, which is, no doubt, a factor.

brunson · #7 2009-10-21, 08:13 AM CDT

You might want to try preupgrade rather than a straight yum update. I've done both successfully, but the preupgrade seems to go more smoothly.

OainjaQakanj · #8 2009-10-21, 10:21 AM CDT

O key, guys. I try to do everything very much wrong. I just type upgrade it starts fourthly minutes ago. Let see what happen if you just do upgrade and nothing what is described in the list. Risky business, but I will report this experiment. while even browser is open.

OainjaQakanj · #9 2009-10-21, 01:21 PM CDT

Yeah. It works. Simply yum --enablerepo=rawhide --skip-broken upgrade. Quite amzing. I was joggin in Helsinki Eiranranta like I do five times per week and went back and start running 12. mmmmmmmmmmm. OK, any guys going tomorrow M$ launch party?

CiaW · #10 2009-10-23, 08:37 PM CDT

I'm downloading the x86_64 live cd now. I tried to get my printer to print in F11 a couple of weeks ago -- and it wouldn't. (I used IPP to my laptop running F7--exactly like I did in CentOS, where it worked)

So, not reading the wiki about upgrading using yum, I just enabled the rawhide repo and downloaded a bunch of stuff; and then when I rebooted I got a ply_event_loop error and it wouldn't give me a desktop; though I could get to a terminal ok. Since I didn't have anything important on that partition I decided to wait until the beta was available... I hope F12 treats me better than F11 did!