Announcing Fedora 7 Test 4 (6.93)

Fri May 4 15:23:58 UTC 2007

     Hello friends,

  I tried to test Fedore 7. It asks me for a username and password.
What should I enter? Thanks.

     Take care
     Oliver

On 4/26/07, Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> wrote:
> The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of the fourth and
> final test release of Fedora 7!
>
> Test 4 is for beta users. This is the time when we MUST have full
> community participation. Without this participation both hardware and
> software functionality suffers. We need your help. Join us!
>
>
> Road Map And Release Schedule
> =============================
> This is the final test release before the final Fedora 7 release, which
> is scheduled for May 24, 2007.
>
> For further information see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7/
>
>
> How to get it:
> =============
> DVD and network installation are available. We also offer three
> different varieties of installable Live media - see "Live CD", below.
>
> http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
> The recommended method of download is via BitTorrent from this site.
>
> http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html
> HTTP, FTP, and RSYNC downloads are available from Fedora Project mirrors
> listed above.  Note that not all mirrors may be synced at this time.
>
> For those of you already running a pre-release version of Fedora 7, all
> you need to do to upgrade to Test 4 is update your packages.
>
>
> Release Notes:
> =============
> Testing focus
>       * Users of e1000 (Intel gigabit ethernet) devices should be on the
>         lookout for device lockups, although we believe this is fixed.
>       * The new wireless stack is working well but still needs testing.
>         In particular, iwlwifi (Intel 3945) has been troublesome in the
>         past but should be much better in this release.
>       * Upgrades from Fedora Core 6 (or older) should be tested, but
>         please
>         be careful - this is still a test release and we can't guarantee
>         everything will work as expected.
>
> Important Warnings about the Test Release
>       * The 2.6.21 kernel uses new IDE drivers which use the same
>         'libata' subsystem as the SATA drivers. As a side-effect, IDE
>         devices previously named /dev/hdX will now be named /dev/sdX.
>         This may cause problems with anything that mentions devices by
>         name instead of by filesystem label. Anaconda should be able to
>         detect most of these problems and help you fix them.
>
> General
>       * In previous test releases the default product was called
>         "Prime", but after feedback from Marketing and the community it
>         has been renamed simply "Fedora".
>       * Fedora 7 Test 4's primary product is a Desktop/Development
>         Workstation/Server distribution which closely matches the
>         contents of previous Fedora Core releases.
>
> Live CD
>       * This test release includes three Live images: an i386 Desktop
>         Live CD, an x86_64 Desktop Live DVD, and an i386 KDE Live CD.
>         These Live CDs can be installed to disk using the graphical
>         Anaconda installer.
>
> Desktop
>       * This test release features GNOME 2.18.
>       * The new Echo icon theme is no longer the default, although it is
>         still available from the repositories.
>       * KDE and Xfce, among several other packages, are included in the
>         development repositories, but not on the media. They can be
>         installed using the appropriate software management tools.
>       * Fast User Switching is now available via the
>         fast-user-switch-applet. See
>         http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFastUserSwitching
>         for more details.
>       * The internet messaging program called "Gaim" is now known as
>         "Pidgin". See http://pidgin.im/ for more info.
>
> Performance
>       * System performance is generally slower in the test releases as
>         compared to the general release since we enable several options
>         that help with debugging.
>       * Yum / rpm performance should be better in this release than
>         previous Fedora 7 test releases.
>
> System Level Changes
>       * Amanda Users who upgrade from older releases need to read the
>         amanda.conf and amanda-client.conf man pages to learn about the
>         the new syntax for calling amandad, as well as edit
>         the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda configuration file to follow the new
>         syntax.
>       * This release includes a kernel based on 2.6.21-rc7. Current
>         release information is tracked on the kernel release notes page:
>         http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Kernel
>
>
> Bug reporting and tracking:
> ==========================
> The Release Engineering and QA teams keep track of bugs that are
> considered release blockers. You can see that list here:
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=FC7Blocker
>
> In addition, a list of non-blocker bugs that should be fixed for Fedora
> 7 if possible can be found here:
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=FC7Target
>
> Please check these lists before reporting new bugs!
>
> Bugs for this release should be reported against the Fedora Core
> product, version 'devel'. You can use this convenient link to report
> bugs:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora%
> 20Core&version=devel
>
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-- 
Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
Theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Statistical Mechanics
Cell Biology at UConn Health Center and Physics at Harvard
http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~oliver/