Fedora 11 Alpha Comes With Huge Feature Set

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora 11 Released With Huge Feature Set

While a few delays were experienced by the Red Hat engineers and community working on Fedora 11 (a.k.a. Leonidas), the first alpha release of this popular Linux distribution is now available...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzA0Mg

[ethana2]

'the first alpha release of this popular Linux distribution is now available'
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'Fedora 11 Released'

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[Michael]

'the first alpha release of this popular Linux distribution is now available'
!=
'Fedora 11 Released'

Delete this comment when fixed.

Whoops, title fixed. Sorry about that, exhausted from all the traveling this week.

[Louise]

Can't remember where, but I read that EXT4 doesn't have defragmentation support right now. A shame, as that would really be the killer feature for a Linux FS.

Let's hope that BTRfs makes it into Anaconda

[blagishnessosity]

Some of the desktop features in Fedora 11 include a new GNOME volume control interface

A new volume control interface?! You call that an exciting new feature? You've got to be kidding me...

[Vadi]

Maybe it's the pre-installed MinGW instead.

But on a more serious note, congrats to them. I hope they also fixed up some of that SELinux stuff - I managed to bork my f10 after half an hour of use and now I cannot have it check for updates at all.

[RealNC]

Good thing there's Fedora. People who do pre-alpha testing so that the rest of us who use useful distros get less bugs later

[dashcloud]

Maybe it's the pre-installed MinGW instead.

But on a more serious note, congrats to them. I hope they also fixed up some of that SELinux stuff - I managed to bork my f10 after half an hour of use and now I cannot have it check for updates at all.

I had the same issue as well- where it try to use the update app, and would fail with a message about .org.dbus (or something similar) not having permissions.

I ended up using yum to update the packages (whatever ones were mentioned in the error message, plus selinux policies, hal, and yum updates). I can't remember exactly which package did it, but after installing the right upgrade, the updater app started working again.
Hope that helps!

[r1348]

It was a dbus issue, not SElinux, and yes, you need to issue a manual "yum update" in order to revert dbus back to a working version...

[Vadi]

Ah, thanks for that.