Is FC4 on schedule ?

[Joe48]

Day Month Event
15 Mar test1
30 March String change deadline (data provided)
11 April test2, string build freeze (builds completed)
27 April Translation deadline (data provided)
test3 devel freeze
10 May test3, translation build freeze (builds completed)
... Continual freeze, only critical bugs fixed until release
23 May Absolute devel freeze
6 June Release open, announced

Is the above schedule for FC4 release accurate ?

[jtang613]

Ask again on June 7th

[ewdi]

so far so good, so let's hope it will be here on june 7

[imdeemvp]

I hope so too...gnome 2.10 looks very nice.

[Justbill]

Hello, I'm new here, and reasonably new to Linux(6 mos. approx.). FC3 is the first Linux distro I tried, and I love it! I tried a few after I installed FC3, but nothing compares! I really am no good at all with command line, I really don't understand it yet, but I will learn in time. Anyhow, my question is this, When I install FC4 after its release, should I do a new install, and wipe out FC3, or can I install FC4 as an upgrade to FC3?
Thanks
Justbill

Compaq Presario
Intel Pentium 4 2.93 GHz processor
512 MB PC-23200 DDR2 SDRAM
160 GB harddrive
and some kind of integrated graphics and sound that I don't understand (but FC3 has no sound )

[c4raku]

for any OS its always best to do a clean install. but if youre feeling lucky it should be possible to edit your yum conf and go for an upgrade that way. if youre not comfortable troubleshooting any problems that arise then back up all your data and start over fresh.

[jtang613]

Clean install is usually the way to go. Upgrades are often - unpredictable. Also - I have found through experience that it often pays to wait a month or so before installing a new release. It gives time for the yum / apt repositories to catch up and for most major drivers and updates to appear.

Jason

[wshawn]

Wait a month... Yeah that would be smart (for Microsoft I suggest 6 months to let the bugs get lessoned)...

But how many of us actually will wait a month? I will be searching the planet as soon as I see it is released. I trust Fedora that much. I have not been let down by any version / distro of linux in almost / over 6 years, but then again only used Fedora and Mandrake (based on Red Hat in the day)...

[Finalzone]

I think it will take less than a month for other repositories to be update from the incoming Fedora Core 4 release. I noticed Livna and RPMForge reposiories already provided package for test release. That may indicate a sign of synchronization.

[csfalcon]

there has been 3 test releases already, what can go wrong?

[jtang613]

Originally Posted by csfalcon

there has been 3 test releases already, what can go wrong?

Murphy's Law

Jason

[JordanN]

Originally Posted by csfalcon

there has been 3 test releases already, what can go wrong?

look at history.

[gavinw6662]

I think they have been petty close to on schedule, if they aren't I don't think it would be any more than 1 week late.

[RahulSundaram]

Hi

The release schedule is on track unless something goes horribly wrong at the last minute :-)

Rahul
Red Hat Inc

[boci]

Hi!

If i install fedora 4 test now can i upgrade to stable when it is out? or need to install again?
Or should i wait for the stable?