Another stellar release from the Fedora project

[Arch Willingham]

I have installed it on six machines now - from an old POS laptop to a new server. All worked great (upgrades and new installs). I installed FC7 test2, test3, test4 and the final release. I have only been messing with Linux for about two years so I'm no authority on how the whole Q&A process works for the Linux community but my impression is that it is a team effort. Much of the Q&A stems from Y&M (you and me) helping the developers by reporting problems as we find them. Every problem I have reported has been fixed and those guys (the only name I can recall is that Keating guy that also has a funny blog about his kid) have all busted their booties to make this release a great one (as well as prompt).

I hope I can speak for a bazillion users out there and say "Thanks guys for the many, many hours you put in and all the hard work you did on this release!".

Arch Willingham
Vice President
T.U. Parks Construction

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Working FC6 installation... I use upgrade DVD

1. Complains that my dos partition can't be mounted. Ignore it.

2. Complains that it cannot find swap space... offers to reboot. Reboot...
same problem. I remove any reference to swap in /etc/fstab... and it seems
to work after rebooting

3. now Anaconda gives an exception while cataloguing the packages.
Classy... really professional that one. So  I remove blank lines from
/etc/modules.conf... reboot... works.

4. Now it finally gets to installing packages stage... but stops after the
first 8 or so have been installed. It doesn't lock the machine, anaconda
just stops. Reboot... and after sitting through 10 minute cataloguing
packages prep again, it carries on installing packages, for another 8 (or
so) packages and then stops. There are 800+ packages to install... you do
the maths.

Did you guys do any quality control at all on this? This is the worst
release yet. I'm staggered. Not only have you put out what it, at best,
alpha quality kernels... but the rest of the system was written by a bunch
of python n00bs.

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