Fedora Core 2 Test 2 released

[Mead]

Test 2 of fedora core2 is out on mirrors and bittorrent now.
BT link here http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/

[PyroSama]

What is Fedora Core?


PyroSama

[washe]

red hat for community!!

[crouse]

http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/

As an aggressive schedule, this schedule is subject to change. At any time, if it becomes obvious that we will need to modify it, we can; in particular, we have scheduled a "reality check" meeting part-way through development to make sure that we stop and ask ourselves whether we have a reasonable chance of making this schedule.
Day Month Event
23 January test1 devel freeze
12 February test1
17 March String change deadline (data provided)
New major version slush (will be exceptions, like GNOME 2.6)
test2 devel freeze
29 March test2, string build freeze (builds completed)
9 April Translation deadline (data provided)
test3 devel freeze
19 April test3, translation build freeze (builds completed)
... Continual freeze, only critical bugs fixed until release
30 April Absolute devel freeze
6 May Export approval, mirror master populated by EOD
7 May Release to mirrors (morning)
10 May Release open, announced

[DanGrease]

Thanks for the link! Will check it out right now
Fedora is basically an open source version of Redhat.

dan

[crouse]

Fedora Core 2 Shows 2.6 Kernel's Stuff
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1545649,00.asp

Some interesting stuff there as well on Fedora Core 2

[willy_ph]

Hmmm, I might have to give this a spin.

[samwichse]

I'm really liking this distro. If only it came with 2.6.5 instead of 2.6.4 (2.6.5 is supposed to the first kernel to support my soundcard "out of the box").

Things to like:
-2.6 kernel makes things "snappy"
-Everything is smoothly integrated as in Fedora Core 1 with a few tweaks
-KDE 3.2.1 (latest) is installed and works nicely
-Is SELinux enhanced
-Many previously compiled packages will work with it

Things not to like:
-Using SELinux is NOT easy (I disabled it at install)
-Can't get my 3d drivers to work (nvidia's fault)
-Little precompiled software available; many things break when moving to 2.6

Anyhow, I like it, and nothing seems to have shipped with it seriously broken, though there are already tons of updates available.

And 2.6 rocks! Especially with burning CDs.

Sam

[washe]

what is SELinux?

[pbharris]

it is some secutity enhancements to the kernel from NSA - National Security Administration
:wq