"We regret to announce a slip of the Fedora Core 6 release schedule. A few issues are still present that we would like to see fixed before we release: a possible ext3 corruption bug; package ordering issues on multilib platforms (x86_64, ppc64); SELinux issue with updating kernels on ppc platforms; and iSCSI based installations are not functional. There are obviously other issues and bugs still open, but these are the ones that are really 'blocking' the release. To give enough time to fix these issues, we've extended the release date 6 days to Tuesday, Oct 17th. Freezes are still in place (even more so now)."
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I love Fedora Core for excellent gcc/binulis/libs tools, I mean using FC you can compile anything even bleeding edge sources. Only one personal issue, pushing ext3 by RedHat, i very impressed by reiser4 filesystem. Fedora with full reiser4 support from the box is my dream. What, ext3 have problems so even need release postpone? Good! Another reason for RedHat to look to alternatives.
Edited 2006-10-07 20:11
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Red Hat is one of ext3 developers. At least, the problem can ironed out soon as possible because of the large community. As for Reiser4, openSuse recently dropped it because of technical and maintenance issues. http://lwn.net/Articles/202780/
AFAIK, Slackware is now the last distribution that uses Reiser4 file system.
Edited 2006-10-07 21:49
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2006-09-14
I have it setup perfectly with all of the Multi-media working correctly, ie quicktime/windows.media/real.player/xmms/amarok/lime.wire/and so on.
Fedora is a nice package after it is customized and all of the config files modified for my liking.
It would be nice if RedHat would focus on a desktop version of Linux like Novell did with SuSE and push it. The RHEL enterprise versions are stripped down and I support it at work but on the desktop it is really boring.
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