Announcing Fedora 7 Test 3 (6.92)
by Jeremy Katz
Welcome to Fedora 7 Test 3.
I am please to announce the third of four test releases for Fedora 7.
Downloads
========
DVD and network installation are available.
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.
New in Fedora 7 Test 3
========
This test release includes significant new versions of many key components and
technologies. The following sections provide a brief overview of major
changes from the last release of Fedora.
Merger of Core and Extras
========
* The Fedora Core and Extras software repositories are being merged,
resulting in a shared infrastructure and a single repository of packages to
which everyone is invited to contribute.
* Fedora 7 Test 3 is packaged initially as a Desktop/Development
Workstation/Server implementation, called "Prime". This spin is delivered in
DVD iso format only as a trial, see
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg00993....
for the discussion on this.
* Many more packages are available in the development repositories.
Live CD
========
* This test release includes an i386 ISO for a Desktop Live CD. This Live
CD features the ability to install to a hard disk using the same graphical
Anaconda installer as the non-live CD variant.
* This test release also includes an x86_64 ISO for a Desktop Live
image. Due to size, this will require a DVD. As with the i386 Live
image, the ability to install to a hard disk is available.
* This test release features a new i386 ISO for a KDE Live CD. Note
that as of this writing, this ISO is only available via bittorrent. It
should be available via the mirrors in the near future.
Desktop
========
* This test release features GNOME 2.18
* A brand new Echo icon theme is included as the default in this release.
This icon theme is incomplete, but with appropriate feedback and progress,
may become the default in the general release.
* Fast User Switching is now available via the fast-user-switch-applet.
See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFastUserSwitching for more
details.
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.
System Administration
========
* System administration tools may be modified under the testing process.
System Level Changes
========
* Fedora 7 Test 3 features a 2.6.21rc5 based kernel. Current release
information is being tracked on the kernel release notes source page.
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Kernel)
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.
Road Map And Release Schedule
========
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7/
Intended Audience for Test Releases
========
Test 1 is targeted for developers, who use it "at their own risk", and
contains many bleeding edge packages.
Test 2 is for early adopters. Most things should work and we need to your help
to find what is broken.
Test 3 is for early adopters. Most things should work and we need to your help
to find what is broken.
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.
Quality Assurance for Test Releases
========
The Fedora Project has a process in place for ensuring the highest possible
quality even in our test releases. Many bugs are identified, prioritized and
fixed during the testing process. We also have a list of known bugs in this
release. Refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/7/Test3TreeTesting for
more details.
Translations of Release Notes
========
Due to the rapidly changing nature of test releases, translations of release
notes for test releases are not practical. The initial goal is to have a
translation of the release notes included in the test4 release and to allow
community review and correction before the general release. As always, the
general release is translated following the established practices for
localization (l10n) and internationalization (i18n)
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N), which result in comprehensive,
high-quality release notes in a variety of languages.
About Fedora
========
Fedora is a set of projects sponsored by Red Hat and guided by the
contributors. These projects are developed by a large community of people who
strive to provide and maintain the very best in free, open source software
and standards. The central Fedora project is an operating system and platform
based on Linux that is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute,
now and forever.
You can help the Fedora Project community continue to improve Fedora if you
file bug reports and enhancement requests. Refer to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugsAndFeatureRequests for more information.
Thank you for your participation.
To find out more general information about Fedora, refer to the following Web
pages:
* Fedora Overview (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview)
* Fedora FAQ (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ)
* Help and Support (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate)
* Participate in the Fedora Project
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HelpWanted)
17 years
Is there a "filemon" equivalent?
by Arch Willingham
I am looking for a Linux equivalent to windows filemon utility. It lets you see what files are being accessed in real time. I googled but don't see anything.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Arch
17 years
Announcing the Fedora Daily Package
by Chris Tyler
The Fedora Daily Package is an unofficial daily guide to some of the
interesting and useful packages in Fedora which installed by default. A
new package is featured each Weekday according to daily themes, except
for Wednesday, when the site features an in-depth look at a Fedora
packaging or configuration detail.
This is a fun and easy way to learn about new packages that you may have
never heard about! The Fedora daily Package is at
http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com (Atom and RSS feeds are available).
--
Chris Tyler
17 years
Beryl crashes with segfault in FC6
by Alan
I am using beryl from the Extras repository.
It was working up until the 0.2 betas with my current drivers and xconfig.
Now it just segfaults on launch. (After displaying a bunch of tests that
all pass.)
I am using the commercial NVIDIA driver version 9631. (The last one
supporting my chipset.)
Any ideas? Since it is a laptop, I cannot just "replace the card" and the
nv open source driver will not run Beryl at all.
Is this a known problem? Is there a fix?
--
"Invoking the supernatural can explain anything, and hence explains nothing."
- University of Utah bioengineering professor Gregory Clark
17 years
memory usage by some apps - is this normal ?
by Development discussions related to Fedora
Hi all,
With updated fc6, I have left my PC on for the last few days, and
noticed it was really slow {I was doing a nice'd clamscan of the whole
disk}. The machine has 512MB ram, but just before I took this text
capture, I had firefox running virt=260MB {this had also caused java_vm
to be running virt=230MB} ie 512MB ram just for these two - does this
seem normal ?
=====
top - 06:24:42 up 1 day, 18:55, 3 users, load average: 0.58, 0.84, 1.57
Tasks: 142 total, 1 running, 141 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 3.0%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.3%si,
0.0%st
Mem: 514160k total, 298600k used, 215560k free, 5172k buffers
Swap: 1859808k total, 236808k used, 1623000k free, 145220k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4379 18 0 155m 12m 5960 S 0.0 2.5 2:03.21 thunderbird-bin
3176 15 0 133m 1144 324 S 0.0 0.2 0:04.03 mysqld
3728 15 0 124m 13m 4496 S 0.3 2.7 1:09.55 nautilus
3822 15 0 101m 748 748 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.26 trashapplet
3751 15 0 89664 6476 1520 S 0.0 1.3 0:21.98 beagled
3949 15 0 86840 9704 3500 S 1.3 1.9 0:40.55 gnome-terminal
3726 23 0 82188 4220 2192 S 0.0 0.8 0:07.21 gnome-panel
4017 16 0 81380 560 560 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.07 evolution-data-
3877 15 0 81072 3060 1828 S 0.0 0.6 2:36.41 clock-applet
3618 15 0 73008 22m 3476 S 1.7 4.6 27:05.54 Xorg
3791 15 0 66888 5964 4180 S 0.0 1.2 0:41.61 wnck-applet
3879 15 0 66160 1064 804 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.90 mixer_applet2
3710 15 0 65268 1256 920 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.96 gnome-power-man
3753 15 0 63296 1228 844 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.73 nm-applet
3978 18 0 58344 1904 1188 S 0.0 0.4 0:02.95 notification-da
3732 23 0 48748 492 492 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.18 bonobo-activati
3738 24 0 44344 1012 808 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.09 eggcups
4701 30 15 35740 14m 7624 S 0.0 2.9 0:01.63 beagled-helper
3701 15 0 33948 1664 1176 S 0.0 0.3 0:07.33 gnome-settings-
1952 15 0 33816 17m 2252 S 0.0 3.5 7:14.16 yum-updatesd
3748 15 0 25140 3856 2228 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.63 puplet
2923 18 0 22936 456 348 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.36 pcscd
=====
Thanks for any pointers or comparison values. I notice that at least
clock-applet is no longer consuming tonnes of memory {another machine
after being up 60 days was using virt 800+MB just for clock applet}.
DaveT
17 years
smbmount ?
by Jeffrey Ross
looking for either smb mount or its replacement in FC6
running "yum whatprovides smbmount" shows me that samba contains the man
page but there is no match for smbmount.
running mount -t smbfs gives me unknown filesystem type.
samba is installed.
TIA, Jeff
17 years
How does one export printer configuration in FC6?
by Peter Schwenk
Hello:
Back in the olden days (around FC3), I was able to export printer
configuration information to a file using "system-config-printer-tui
--Xexport", but FC6 doesn't seem to have this facility anymore. What
it the preferred way to save a computer's printer configuration to a
file so that it can be imported on another computer? Thanks in
advance for your help.
--
- Peter Schwenk
- CITA-3, Systems Administrator
- Mathematical Sciences
- University of Delaware
- (302) 831-0437
- schwenk _at_ math _dot_ udel _dot_ edu
- http://www.math.udel.edu/~schwenk
17 years
Re: cups-lpd: Unable to reserve port: Permission denied
by Albert de Jongh
I think this is related to selinux :-) I did not see any messages in my
/var/log/audit... logs about this, but if you do a "setenforce Permissive"
(as root), and try printing your job again it will work.
(Just remember to enable selinux again)
I installed selinux-policy-* updates on 28 March - see
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-March/msg000...
more details about the relevant selinux packages. There is stuff in
that post about hi_reserved_port_t - which is the range of ports that lpd is
complaining it can't access.
I see also that there are posts in the cups bug mailing list about this. I
could not figure out what selinux mailing list to post this to.
17 years
view function of Bind 9
by Edward S.P. Leong
Dear All,
If the client machine using IP ( 192.168.1.0 / 24, IP range from the NAT
service of a Server machine ) and the server machine using IP (
192.168.0.1 / 24 ), then, it need to be configed by using view function ?
Edward.
17 years
Re: kde window decoration black bars
by Rex Dieter
lostson wrote:
> I haven't been around for about a week I logged in this morning and yum
> updated and now some of my window decorations in kde have black bars on
> the sides or bottom in the control center preview and when using them. I
> am attaching a screenshot as well. I am using Fedora Core 6 fully updated
> and kde 3.5.6-4 any ideas as to why this is happening and how I can remedy
> this problem. I like using the glow theme but this makes it really ugly,
> thanks.
rebuild glow? Report problem to glow devs?
-- Rex
17 years