Fedora 10 is now available, sporting a new graphical boot-up sequence, OpenOffice.org 3, many improvements to sound support via PulseAudio, and other updates. See the release notes here, and Linux Format has a detailed look at F10's features and changes.
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2005-11-07
Downloading it right now from a spanish mirror. Can't wait to install it on a spare partition i freed for Fedora.
I'm anxious to see if it has got better in making codec/drivers install easier and if it is possible to upgrade a Fedora 9 install via the Internet.
Edited 2008-11-25 15:55 UTC
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I'm anxious to see if it has got better in making codec/drivers install easier and if it is possible to upgrade a Fedora 9 install via the Internet.
Just visit rpmfusion.org site, then download and install a rpm for yum setup of their repo. It's a successor to Livna and few other unofficial repositories which had codecs and similar semi-legal stuff.
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I tested the new codec stuff and it more or less works, with a small hitch.
I installed the rpmfusion releases (free and non-free), and tried to play a media file. I got the message that it needed additional software. within a few clicks it found codecs, theor dependencies and installed them. However, there was still no picture, and I got an error of a missing codec.
When I tried to play that same file the second time, it now mentioned that the codec was missing, and clicking through again, it installed that one file and the video played correctly.
so, it works, but you may have to go through it twice. (I would suspect there is probably an incorrect dependency in some rpmfusion package, but I am not a developer).
Other than that, great release. Its pretty and it works.
Packagekit is also very usable and much improved over what came by default in Fedora 9 - it is starting to show its potential, something I did not really believe would happen when it was first announced over a year ago.
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https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-November/m...
To make RPM Fusion repositories available on a freshly installed Fedora
10 system run the following command:
{{{
| $ su -c 'rpm -ivh
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-s...
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-rel...'
}}}
You can also added during install following this:
http://rpmfusion.org/EnablingRpmFusionDuringFedoraInstall
Edited 2008-11-25 16:25 UTC
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2006-07-24
In case you miss this in the release notes. I have an x300 in one of my laptop's and it bites me...
Just add nomodeset to the kernel boot line.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/Common
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10preview/en_US/What_i...
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2005-07-14
Well, so far, everything is working perfect. It downloaded the codecs automatically and Firefox is running without a hitch.
My only question is that I installed JRE(java runtime
environment) but for some reason it does not with Firefox. I tried to play chess at http://www.chessica.de/jchess/jchess.html but it is not doing anything and is still asking for JRE. Any suggestions?
JRE and Opera are working perfect which I found odd.
By the way, I am keeping Fedora. I think, killer features as Full Hard Drive Encryption, SElinux and
Package kit makes it a mean distro.
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While I agree WORA is not really true in this case I blame OpenJDK. I have a number of applications that work fine in Sun's JDK, IBM's JDK, and JRockit but not OpenJDK. Especially stuff that stresses permgen space (like J2EE portal conatiners and eclipse with a large number of plugins) seems to have problems with OpenJDK.
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You may want to retry SAP's GUI on the Fedora 10 version of java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin. Red Hat did a lot of work to make IcedTea's plugin much more compatible in this release.
See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LiveConnect for details.
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So that's the sun on the default wallpaper.. I'm sure it must be, but doesn't it now also look a bit like those microscopic images of a human ovum surrounded by all those millions of eager sperm cells trying to get in or already too late to get in..?
Subliminal message there, Red Hat? :-P
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2005-12-02
FTA:
"Another key feature of Fedora 10 is OpenOffice.org 3.0, making Fedora the first major distro to include it in the DVD install."
Mandriva 2009 was the first major distribution to include OpenOffice.org 3.0. Unless Mandriva is not counted as a major distribution??
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According to Distrowatch, Mandriva shipped with a release candidate of OO.o 3.0 and not 3.0 final:
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mandriva
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I would assume that they have since issued a update for the full thing since, no? (I have not checked, but I would expect an update from an RC - which should more or less have the same features anyway - to the final.)
All the original wording was doing was picking out Ubuntu, but without calling it by name.
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There is no separate image. We try to integrate changes directly within upstream and inherit those changes within Fedora. So just use the regular live image and it should work fine with some caveats such as the wireless in the newer model requiring a kmod from rpmfusion.
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Thanks.
Is that why I didn't have wireless working ootb on the latest Ubuntu.
Any website you could refer me to about how to install that kmod from rpmfusion?
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http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
Install the rpmfusion-free release package to enable the repository and yum install akmod-rt2860
That should do that job.
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"Despite this, many of the new features appear to be things that originate from upstream, and as such, will find their way (or have found their way) to other distributions as well"
True. Of note is that Fedora itself is essentially upstream or Fedora developers are primary maintainers of many many key components of upstream projects and we try to push all our changes upstream and stay close to the original sources.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview
So if all the changes get to other distributions as well, it certainly helps our goals.
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With a stable release like this one in Fedora 10, it's a relief and time-saver. A guy like me who has a relatively new system can set it up for the next 12-18 months and not touch it.
I was surprised it loaded my ATI 4870 drivers. Holy crap. And the KDE version is also stabilized. None of the twitchiness that kubuntu 8.10 still has.
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