Rolling Release has been present for a very log time. Now known as ....
The idea of a rolling release has its pluses and minuses. A true rolling release does not allow for major upgrades.
BUT
the equivalent to thte rolling release is the new fedora update (fedup). The purpose of fedup is to take you from fedora version x to version x+1. So essentially, you have a rolling release as a batch update.
With versions of Fedora prior to 17, you had to install and run pre-upgrade, and after rebooting, you ran postupgrade.
Now Fedup does it all
My major issues with Fedora 18 TC4 (Pre go live)
There are two problems. that are causing me grief. One is anaconda, and keyboard selection,
I have thee systems, a Desktop with the Canadian French keyboard (32bit)
Oe system with a second Canadian French keyboard (64bit)
and a laptop with Spanish Latin America keyboard.
In the installation process, I do the installation in English, but I indicate layout of the keyboard so I can have correct mapping.
What happens in all cases is that the virtual console does not pickup the desired keyboard. It remains as English (USA).
For the alphnumeric characters (a-z,0-9) the mapping to keytops are the same as the English USA.
But special characters such as #,|,euro, etc. are missing or in different locations from the virtual console.
When in anaconda we provide the root password, I use # and ! in the password as #myrootpw! or a user logon password as first#second
some menus in Gnome use the gnome mappings, some menus (such as asking for sudo password or root password, use the English USA layout. We have no indication of which is used where, though I find that for sudo or root, it is the English USA.
Further more, in prior Fedora versions, one could assign the euro symbol to either the level3 E key or level3 5 key. This ability is missig. One cannot enter the euro symbol as a standard keyboard character.
For me, this is a serious problem, as I deal with countries that express currencies with the Euro symbol.And to prevent dictionary hacks, I use |¬¬°@·~½¬{{[ and others. My latam keyboard has the euro on the E key as € I would like to use the euro and dollar symbols in text and passwords in virtual cosole and in Gnome, KDE and cinnamon.
Firstboot uses the Virtual Console settings, But Gnome, kde use the Canadian French or Latam
