From jkeating at redhat.com Fri Oct 6 19:35:13 2006 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:35:13 -0400 Subject: Fedora Core 6 release date slip Message-ID: <200610061535.17938.jkeating@redhat.com> We regret to announce a slip of the Fedora Core 6 release schedule. A few issues are still present that we would like to see fixed before we release. - Possible ext3 corruption bug - Installs with 256megs of ram stall - Package ordering issues on multilib platforms (x86_64, ppc64) - SELinux issue with updating kernels on ppc platforms - iscsi based installations not functional There are obviously other issues and bugs still open, but these are the ones that are really "blocking" the release. To give enough time to fix these issues, we've extended the release date 6 days to Tuesday, Oct 17th. Freezes are still in place (even more so now). Your extra careful testing of rawhide over the next few days would greatly be appreciated. Keep an eye on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Core/Schedule for any changes. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) "..where you can free your knowledge for your free community!" From mspevack at redhat.com Thu Oct 12 15:19:57 2006 From: mspevack at redhat.com (Max Spevack) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:19:57 -0400 (EDT) Subject: thoughts on LWN "how many Fedora users are there" Message-ID: My fellow Fedorans, I have some thoughts on the LWN article/discussion that was taken from a few of the recent postings to fedora-advisory-board. Rather than send the same message to a bunch of different Fedora lists, I'm just going to spit it out here on fedora-announce-list. http://lwn.net/Articles/203694/ All of the "interesting" threads about Fedora that we've seen on LWN tend to begin with one of the LWN editors browsing the Fedora Advisory Board archives and commenting on some of the discussions that take place there. It's not like that's an accident. When we set up that mailing list, we said two very specific things: 1) This is *the list* where the controversial conversations about Fedora will take place. 2) This list is completely open. Anyone can read it. Anyone can post to it. And we hope that people will! I'm glad people are reading it. I'm glad people *care* enough about the issues that are discussed on it to write a large number of comments to a story about Fedora. So the *particulars* of this thread about Fedora metrics to me are *less important* than the fact that these conversations -- in their raw, unedited form -- are being had 100% in the open. And that they are being had in very large part by people who do not work for Red Hat. And that people who don't work for Red Hat are making decisions about Fedora policy that are then implemented. That was the goal of the Fedora Board, and the Fedora Advisory Board. And it's working. Seth Vidal and Dave Jones summed it up well in the comments on LWN. There was an idea. That idea was discussed in public. It received criticism, others were proposed, options were weighed, and a decision was made. That's how it's supposed to work. So what's the purpose of taking parts of that conversation and sticking them on a news site like LWN? Is it to: A) be critical of the *initial idea* and made Fedora look foolish for having thought of it to begin with? B) be a case study of "the lifecycle of a controversial decision in Fedora"? C) *incorrectly* imply that Red Hat might want to cut funding for Fedora? D) demonstrate a problem with Fedora (lack of strong metrics) and show some of the conversations around that problem? The Fedora Advisory Board list is made up of all sorts of different types -- engineers both inside and outside of Red Hat, lawyers, marketing experts, folks who are considering business issues, folks who are considering technical issues, etc. When the ideas of one group come up against the scrutiny of other groups, it isn't always pretty. But the *end result* is what matters. And since we inaugurated the Fedora Board in April, I think the Fedora Project has a solid track record of doing the "right thing" in the end. The fact that the rest of the process is transparent should, in my opinion, be held up as a good thing. It is a side effect that looking into that process can occasionally lead to a fun comment/flame thread. Laugh at us if you want to. Flame us if you want to. We're still going to talk about it in the open, because as an organization the Fedora Project is committed to that transparency, even when it isn't necessarily the *easiest* choice. So please, judge us based on what we actually DO, not just what we talk about and then throw away. --Max P.S. RED HAT IS NOT GOING TO CUT FUNDING FOR FEDORA! Quite the opposite, in fact. But I can't just walk into the magic room full of gold and take a pile of it. There has to be justification. There has to be a Plan. It has to be treated like Serious Business(TM). :-) And I think that any product (free or otherwise) that can't at least give a ballpark guesstimate of how many people use it is going to have some problems being taken seriously. -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21 From mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org Mon Oct 16 02:43:15 2006 From: mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org (Mike McGrath) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:43:15 -0500 Subject: Fedora Infrastructure Team - Help Wanted Message-ID: <3237e4410610151943v81bd3a4xce478fb27287d4fd@mail.gmail.com> The Fedora Infrastructure team is looking for some more volunteers to help better support the day to day activities of the Fedora Project contributors and developers. We are looking for dedicated, capable volunteers to help in all aspects of our Infrastructure. We're especially looking for the following skills / experiences: * Python experience (Huge plus right now) * Version Control Systems (CVS, Mercurial, SVN, git, etc) * Users with access to their own test-environments * Troubleshooting Linux and web systems * General systems engineering / administration * Extras Reviewers / Packagers Interested members should check out the getting started page on the wiki (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/GettingStarted). If you'd like to assist in a specific area, contact one of the relevant infrastructure officers (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Officers). Any aid at all helps, from security audits to coders we're looking to make our systems better. If you think you can help, we'd be glad to have you. -Mike From tchung at fedoranews.org Mon Oct 16 07:34:34 2006 From: tchung at fedoranews.org (Thomas Chung) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:34:34 -0700 Subject: Fedora Weekly News Issue 62 Message-ID: <20061016073418.M31626@fedoranews.org> Welcome to our issue number 62 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_62 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Inside Fedora Core 6 2 Naming of Fedora Core 6 3 Announcing Dribble a new addon repo 4 Red Hat Linux rises over Chicago 5 Opening doors to open source for women 6 OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Is Here 7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-10-09 8 Fedora Core 5 Updates 9 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 10 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) "..where you can free your knowledge for your free community!" From jkeating at redhat.com Mon Oct 16 21:26:23 2006 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:26:23 -0400 Subject: Another slip in the FC6 schedule Message-ID: <200610161726.23717.jkeating@redhat.com> Over the weekend we ran into a few more bugs with Fedora Core 6 that we decided were important enough to fix. There were some multilib compose issues (wrong packages landing in the wrong dirs), some translation files that would cause tracebacks in things like anaconda (whoops), and a fedora-release package that forgot to enable updates (double whoops). For these reasons and a few others, we decided to respin the release candidate tree and push the release date out another couple of days. The current plan is to spin a release candidate this evening with some last minute fixes, and start the sync. Validation has gone very well up to this point and baring any blow ups in the spin process, the release looks very solid. We're planning to release on Thursday Oct 19th. This should give the mirrors enough days to sync up. If things blow up horribly and we have to spin again tomorrow, depending on what time we have to respin we may slip until next week, as releasing on Fridays or Mondays gets you the wrath of the mirror admins (: I want to thank you all for playing along and helping us to make FC6 the best release yet! -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jkeating at redhat.com Wed Oct 18 00:07:29 2006 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:07:29 -0400 Subject: Another slip in the FC6 schedule In-Reply-To: <200610161726.23717.jkeating@redhat.com> References: <200610161726.23717.jkeating@redhat.com> Message-ID: <200610172007.29644.jkeating@redhat.com> On Monday 16 October 2006 17:26, Jesse Keating wrote: > Over the weekend we ran into a few more bugs with Fedora Core 6 that we > decided were important enough to fix. There were some multilib compose > issues (wrong packages landing in the wrong dirs), some translation files > that would cause tracebacks in things like anaconda (whoops), and a > fedora-release package that forgot to enable updates (double whoops). For > these reasons and a few others, we decided to respin the release candidate > tree and push the release date out another couple of days. > > The current plan is to spin a release candidate this evening with some last > minute fixes, and start the sync. Validation has gone very well up to this > point and baring any blow ups in the spin process, the release looks very > solid. We're planning to release on Thursday Oct 19th. This should give > the mirrors enough days to sync up. If things blow up horribly and we have > to spin again tomorrow, depending on what time we have to respin we may > slip until next week, as releasing on Fridays or Mondays gets you the wrath > of the mirror admins (: > > I want to thank you all for playing along and helping us to make FC6 the > best release yet! Hi, its me again, remember me? I was the guy who told you we would probably release on Thursday of this week. Yeah, about that... Bugs suck. More bugs suck more. I'd rather go DOWN in bug count with the trees we spin than up, so after some regressions popped up, we're going to respin again and push the release out until next Tuesday, the 24th. This will ensure we finish playing whack-a-mole with the tree and we give the mirrors a fighting chance at getting synced up before we open the flood gates. In the interest of full disclosure (like you couldn't read rawhide report from tomorrow...) the following bugs popped up / were noticed / were introduced / were fixed due to extra time / and have been fixed (hopefully) with the tree I'm spinning, and rawhide that will land tomorrow. 211097: latest rawhide kernel broke xenguest-install / virt-manager 211117: Anaconda traceback + forced reboot when file temporarily unavailable 211118: Unable to connect to xend with xen Dom0 kernel and xend running 209945: s-c-firewall creates unusable default for ipv6 203570: Starting X brings up a blank screen (for mga) : coolkey package %post errors : classpathx-mail multilib conflicts : fedora-release-notes css not optimal for some non-english languages : broken deps on x86_64 and ppc(64) So, provided that we don't introduce any NEW bugs while fixing THOSE bugs, the tree should be golden as of tonight. We'll begin syncing once we've finished smoke testing the tree tomorrow (you can help too on rawhide!). There will also be a fair number of "0 day" updates for FC6, due to the amount of time that we've been frozen and not taking any updates. Many of these will go into updates-testing first, and some testing on those would be good, since they saw 0 rawhide time. That is all, I now return you to your regularly scheduled mortgage and lottery spam. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) "..where you can free your knowledge for your free community!" From fedora at redhat.com Tue Oct 24 14:07:34 2006 From: fedora at redhat.com (Fedora Project) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:07:34 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Announcing Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Message-ID: This is the announcement of Zod. Zod permits you to call him "Fedora Core 6". Tremble, Earthlings, for Zod is released from the confines of testing. Zod intends to hammer the servers of the world ... starting TODAY! For those who chose the world-domination-acceptance package in your last installation, you need do nothing -- Zod is beaming itself to your computers already. If your keyboard begins to get hot, back away ... very ... slowly ... For the rest of you minions who failed to do Zod's bidding previously, this is your ONE AND ONLY CHANCE to redeem yourself. Go quickly! Download the torrent NOW. Obtain the ISO immediately. Zod's minions know to back up their /home directory and to begin immediate installation of the GREATEST version of Fedora Core EVER. When you are done genuflecting, listen carefully. Zod now delivers an important message to Zod's predecessor, the Fifth Iteration of Fedora Core, known to some as Bordeaux: "KNEEL BEFORE ZOD, for Zod has many improvements that convince users to upgrade and abandon you! Ph34r me! Mwahahahaha." Zod accepts that the Fedora Project continues to provide software and security updates for Bordeaux, as per the policy of Zod's minions. Zod chooses to permit this action to continue. Those who would understand Zod must begin here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC6ReleaseSummary http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/ Massive downloading of Zod is known to melt servers worldwide, so Zod commands all who are able to use bittorrent. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org For other ways to get Zod, read http://www.redhat.com/fedora/ From rpm at livna.org Tue Oct 24 19:31:10 2006 From: rpm at livna.org (RPM Livna.org Team) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:31:10 +0200 Subject: rpm.livna.org FC6 support Message-ID: <1161718270.2015.19.camel@gruyere.lan.livna.org> Hello Dear Fedora Users. The rpm.livna.org team is proud to announce rpm.livna.org repository complete support starting today for the 6th release of the Fedora Core and Extras distribution. The rpm.livna.org repository provides amongst many packages: - Drivers with precompiled kernel modules : ATI and Nvidia graphics drivers, ndiswrapper, madwifi. - Firmwares : ipw2100-firmware, ipw2200-firmware - Media players : xine-lib based players, mplayer, videolan client - Gstreamer plugins To use the rpm.livna.org repository, simply install the following livna-release package: http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm Bug reports can be addressed at our bugzilla: http://bugzilla.livna.org/ Have a nice Fedora Core 6, everyone. -- The RPM.Livna.org Team From bob at bobjensen.com Tue Oct 24 19:18:13 2006 From: bob at bobjensen.com (Robert 'Bob' Jensen) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:18:13 -0500 Subject: Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Live-Spins Released Message-ID: <453E66F5.8000905@bobjensen.com> Fedora Unity releases Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Live-Spin ISO images. Official Fedora Live CD/DVD images are something many have been looking forward to seeing from the Fedora community. Fedora Unity has joined forces with the Kadischi development team to test and release live images, called "Live-Spins." The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the initial release of several Fedora Core 6 Live-Spin CD and DVD ISO images. These Live-Spins are based on the 24 October initial release of Fedora Core 6. They are available for the i386 and x86_64 architectures via BitTorrent immediately. A Live-Spin CD or DVD provides a "reasonably useful web browser/email/OpenOffice access," said Jef Spaleta, long time Fedora community member. It "should be a good quick peek at what the FC6 desktops feel like ... without having to do a full install." He added, "9 out of 10 voices in my head agree: 'Unity's Live-Spin CD is a pretty good starting point for future live CD development.'" Fedora Core 6 GNOME Live-Spin CD images (i386 and x86_64) include: 2.6.18-1.2798_FC6 kernel GNOME 2.16.0 Nautilus CD Burner 2.16.0 Firefox 1.5.0.7 Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 X-Chat 2.6.6 OpenOffice 2.0.4 Evolution 2.8.0 and various other desktop applications. The Fedora Core 6 KDE Live-Spin CD (i386 only) image includes: 2.6.18-1.2798_FC6 kernel KDE 3.5.4 K3B 0.12.15 Firefox 1.5.0.7 Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 X-Chat 2.6.6 OpenOffice 2.0.4 Evolution 2.8.0 and various other desktop applications. The Fedora Core 6 Server Live-Spin CD (i386 and x86_64) images include: 2.6.18-1.2798_FC6 kernel Apache 2.2.3 MySql 5.0.22 PHP 5.1.6 Python 2.4.3 and various other server admin utilities. The DVD images (i386 and x86_64) include: Everything for a desktop that you might want to see from under the Fedora umbrella for the same low price. It has been said in the past that Fedora Unity's Live-Spin DVD included everything but the kitchen sink. The only reason the kitchen sink is not included is that it has not yet been packaged for Fedora Extras. Nearly all the GNOME apps, nearly all the KDE apps, XFCE4, and a whole load of packages for the desktop from Fedora Extras. This ISO even includes the long wanted NTFS support by including the ntfs-3g package that is now in Extras. Because of the size of this LiveDVD you may need more than 512 MiB of RAM for it to run effectively. About The Fedora Unity Project: The Fedora Unity Project was created by concerned peers in the Fedora community to bring quality solutions to the community. We want to see the best solutions find their way into the hands of the community. We are site maintainers, Fedora Project contributors, and interested users, just like you. Fedora Unity has taken up the Live-Spin task to provide the community with the chance to test and experience Fedora Core in a live media environment. This is a community project, for the community and by the community. You can contribute to the community by seeding the torrent after your download has completed or by joining the test process. The Fedora Unity Project intends to release early and release often. We hope to release new Re-Spins and Live-Spins to the community early each month. These releases will continue throughout the life of each Fedora Core release until that release is transferred to Fedora Legacy. Early snapshots are taken mid-month to start testing. Final snapshots are taken about a week before the release. All released ISO images are tested to ensure the quality that the Fedora community expects and deserves. If you are interested in helping with the testing/development or seeding/hosting efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team. Contact information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/contact-info . To join the torrent: http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/ For detailed package lists or the get a copy of our kickstart files: http://fedoraunity.org/ To report bugs in the Live-Spins: http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/ For more information about Kadischi: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi -- Robert 'Bob' Jensen * * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BobJensen gpg fingerprint: F9F4 7243 4243 0043 2C45 97AF E8A4 C3AE 42EB 0BC6 Fedora Unity Project * bob at fedoraunity.org * http://fedoraunity.org/ From Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net Wed Oct 25 08:27:56 2006 From: Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net (Axel Thimm) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:27:56 +0200 Subject: ATrpms for FC6 Message-ID: <20061025082756.GA21668@neu.nirvana> ATrpms is officially launching Fedora Core 6 support for i386, x86_64 and ppc. http://ATrpms.net/dist/fc6/ o The actual download location is http://dl.atrpms.net/. Mirrors are listed at http://atrpms.net/mirrors/ o "stable", "testing" and "bleeding", the three subrepos per distribution are not cumulative inclusive on the server side. E.g. you need to add "stable" for "testing", and both "stable" and "testing" for "bleeding". ATrpms is a 3rd party general purpose package repository. It currently supports o FC6/i386, FC6/x86_64, FC6/ppc, FC5/i386, FC5/x86_64, FC5/ppc, FC4/i386, FC4/x86_64 FC3/i386, FC3/x86_64, FC2/i386, FC2/x86_64, FC1 o RHEL4/i386, RHEL4/x86_64, RHEL3/i386, RHEL3/x86_64 o RH9, RH8.0 and RH7.3 ATrpms support for some of these distribution will go EOL by the ned of the year. configuration for package resolvers (replace i386 with x86_64 if needed) o yum [atrpms] name=Fedora Core 6 - i386 - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc6-i386/atrpms/stable o smart [atrpms] name=Fedora Core 5 - i386 - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc5-i386/atrpms/stable type=rpm-md o apt repomd http://dl.atrpms.net fc5-i386/atrpms/stable you can provide feedback or request support on the ATrpms lists (http://lists.atrpms.net/), or the common bug tracker (http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/). Enjoy! -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Have fun! Matthias - -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 5.92 (FC6 Test3) - Linux kernel 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 Load : 0.06 0.04 0.06 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFP44baSrEWeQtVHsRAjV8AKDmLRnZS5LKM/W+CIU9j+Jv5n6LbQCfWmv4 qEYB/R8qD6iF5RnfC7D+U4s= =uXsh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From liblit at cs.wisc.edu Thu Oct 26 01:26:28 2006 From: liblit at cs.wisc.edu (Ben Liblit) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:26:28 -0500 Subject: Cooperative Bug Isolation for FC6 Message-ID: <45400EC4.5060505@cs.wisc.edu> The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora Core 6. CBI (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/) is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like you. Even if you?ve never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting packages. We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, Gaim, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, Gnumeric, Nautilus, Rhythmbox, and SPIM. Download at . We support yum, apt, and many other RPM updater tools; see for customized configuration help for any of our supported distributions and updater tools. Or just download and install to automatically configure most popular RPM updaters to use the CBI repository. It's that easy! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! The more of you there are, the more bugs we can find. We still offer CBI packages for Fedora Core 1/2/4/5 too. When and if you decide to upgrade to FC6, we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable! -- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy From tchung at fedoranews.org Mon Oct 30 08:14:35 2006 From: tchung at fedoranews.org (Thomas Chung) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:14:35 -0800 Subject: Fedora Weekly News Issue 64 Message-ID: <20061030081426.M81968@fedoranews.org> Welcome to our issue number 64 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_64 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Announcing Fedora Core 6 (Zod) 2 Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Live-Spins Released 3 Third Party FC6 Repositories Announcements 4 Phoronix: Fedora Core 6 Review 5 Lunarpark6: Fedora Core 6 Review 6 LinuxForm: Fedora Core 6 Reivew 7 J_K9 at Linux: Fedora Core 6 Review 8 O'Reily OnLamp: Fedora Core 6 Review 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-10-23 10 Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates 11 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 12 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) "..where you can free your knowledge for your free community!" From sundaram at fedoraproject.org Mon Oct 30 16:57:41 2006 From: sundaram at fedoraproject.org (Rahul Sundaram) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:27:41 +0530 Subject: Fedora Core 6 Common Issues Message-ID: <45462F05.7090100@fedoraproject.org> Hi Here is a list of a commonly reported issues that have come up in Fedora Core 6 along with workarounds. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common Based on the reviews and user feedback this is our best our release of Fedora Core 6 yet. Active development for the next release of Fedora is already under rapid progress. Early testing would help us avoid problems and improve the quality of general releases. To participate in testing, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing. Thank you for your continuous contributions and feedback. Rahul