http://www.osnews.com/story/17138/Fedora_7_Test_1_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:04:47 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?208114 http://osnews.com/thread?208114 Looks like the folks asking for a slimmer install set are finally going to get their wish. Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (orestes) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208117 http://osnews.com/thread?208117 kudos to the Fedora development team and contributors for their excellent work, I for one can't wait to try out Fedora 7

/me starts downloading. Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (anyweb) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208126 http://osnews.com/thread?208126 ... and for those claiming that Fedora's been copying Ubuntu again: Mepis did that first. Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (h3rman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208131 http://osnews.com/thread?208131 "... and for those claiming that Fedora's been copying Ubuntu again: Mepis did that first. "

Actually, Demolinux did it first, IIRC. Web page says 10 Sept 1999.

http://www.demolinux.org/

Looks like it hasn't been updated since 2002, though. Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (randy7376) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208145 http://osnews.com/thread?208145 Wow already, it doesn't seem like it was that long ago that FC6 came out. Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (milatchi) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208154 http://osnews.com/thread?208154 >>"... and for those claiming that Fedora's been copying Ubuntu again: Mepis did that first. "

>Actually, Demolinux did it first, IIRC. Web page says 10 Sept 1999.

http://www.demolinux.org/

Looks like it hasn't been updated since 2002, though.

But where does it say that this live disk was installable (maybe I missed it)? I was referring to installable live disks. Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (h3rman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208157 http://osnews.com/thread?208157 That is the beauty of a 6 month release cycle Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (elzurawka) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208170 http://osnews.com/thread?208170 ah can't wait for this to go final, this version is suppose to have the really fast boot up time.

anyone tried it and know if its already been implemented? Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kap1) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208191 http://osnews.com/thread?208191 Thanks for the news... downloading right now... Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (avivahl) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208192 http://osnews.com/thread?208192 Wow already, it doesn't seem like it was that long ago that FC6 came out.

The time between Test1 and final release is always dissapointingly long (in a nice way)

Doug Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (wibbit) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208201 http://osnews.com/thread?208201 It's under the Available Versions, Version 3 submenu. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jbuchman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208212 http://osnews.com/thread?208212 Aaarrggg, I hate installable live-disks. Why not just stream line the installation process to take 10-15 minutes like Debian and FreeBSD manage to do? It takes 10-15 minutes to generally boot up live-disks. When using Ubuntu, I personally always download the alternate text installer. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Don T. Bothers) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208218 http://osnews.com/thread?208218 I downloaded the live-CD, and it did not work on either of my two computers. Other Linux live-CDs have worked just fine. On the first computer, it did a kernel panic. On the second computer, it warned that it could not find the root file system and then hung. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dennis1234) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208226 http://osnews.com/thread?208226 Same here. I really liked the root filesystem error. "Cannot find root filesystem. Please symlink /dev/root." Terrific, symlink it where? Fedora amazes me in that every test release is a big steaming pile and yet somehow the final releases come out with very few issues. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fsckit) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208242 http://osnews.com/thread?208242 w00t http://shots.linuxquestions.org/?linux_distribution_sm=Fedora%2... Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lqsh) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208250 http://osnews.com/thread?208250 It suprises me some distros seem to be in a hurry to poop out the releases. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208251 http://osnews.com/thread?208251 It's beta product. Not yes ready for the end-user. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (superman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208263 http://osnews.com/thread?208263 Is the iconset shown on the screenshots available anywhere? Is it the new bluecurve? Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ituloyangsulong) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208269 http://osnews.com/thread?208269 It's the new echo theme that replaces bluecurve.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/EchoDevelopment
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/EchoDiscussion

I don't know if I like it or not. It looks too cartoonish.Edited 2007-02-02 07:59 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nxsty) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208275 http://osnews.com/thread?208275 Now I see, you're right, it's installable.
A bit limited, a swap file, a boot floppy needed, I guess some decompressing will be needed when booting, but it would be unfair to compare this to 2007 live cds. Might be interesting to compare this method to the way DSL installs itself to hard disks these days.

@Don T. Bothers, I agree that live cds are not ideal for those that want to install the disk anyway. On the other hand, for a lot of people it's very convenient to see
- if what's inside is worth upgrading in the first place;
- if all drivers needed are there, and the network is propery configured.
This gives a lot of people a good feeling about the particular OS they're running live for a while. Which is, in itself, a good thing.
Obviously, for installing a server, or if you already know that you're going to install the OS in any case, such live cds are a waste of time. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (h3rman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208279 http://osnews.com/thread?208279 What's the plan for KDE ? Will we get a real functional desktop in this version like in any other distribution or will we get the troubled Red Hat/Fedora version ? Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lezard) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208281 http://osnews.com/thread?208281 Thanks! Yeah, it's a bit cartoonish but somewhat refreshing compared to bluecurve. Again, thanks for the info. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ituloyangsulong) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208285 http://osnews.com/thread?208285 Please read
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFedoraKDE Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Finalzone) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208286 http://osnews.com/thread?208286 The Test1 release evidently haven't changed the artwork, it still looks like FC6. If you want to follow the ongoing work on what Fedora 7 might look like, follow the fedora-art mailing list or have a look at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/FC7Themes/Fc7ThemeProposalFly... Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (unoengborg) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208295 http://osnews.com/thread?208295 Will we get a real functional desktop in this version like in any other distribution or will we get the troubled Red Hat/Fedora version

Hmm. I Use Fedora 6 to do all my school work, research, etc. I never realized I was using a troubled OS. It seems to work pretty well for me. It looks nice, runs smoothly and is easy to update with Yum. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (buff) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208304 http://osnews.com/thread?208304 Jesus!!! That design-theme is EXTREMELY ugly and amateurish to be honest. Haven't they learned anything about design during all those years?

FC5 stressed the eyes and made fonts almost unreadable.
FC6 shipped a dark, depressing look.
FC7 resembles a kindergarden theme.

Best theme the Red Hat/Fedora guys made yet: Red Hat 9.

JMHO. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (arctic) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208308 http://osnews.com/thread?208308 I suggest that you join the fedora-art mailing list and start helping them. I think the time for submitting completely new suggestions is over, but there is a lot to improve in the current draft. I would say that more people with usability skills should be more involved. When it comes to designing themes. It's not only about what looks good on an artistic level.

I think the FC6 theme was/is quit nice though, even if it was a bit dark. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (unoengborg) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208311 http://osnews.com/thread?208311 I'm not talking about the OS in general, even though Fedora 6 doesn't boot on my machine, but about the way they customised the KDE version to something inconsistent and barely usable. I'm talking about the default set of applications (like evolution for the mail reader) and overall configuration. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lezard) Comments