"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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Member since:2005-07-06
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
Member since:2005-07-06
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
Member since:2005-08-28
Member since:2005-07-07
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.
Suse didn't move away from Reiser4. In fact it was never even really considered for Suse's filesystem. ReiserFS (version 3) has been the default for a while now but several issues (read the article you linked to) are pushing Suse towards another filesystem, most likely ext3.
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2006-01-18
I agree - fedora is a very nice distro to start from. By start from, I mean the default desktop and all that is very nice, and you can build on it by adding whatever patent or license restricted stuff you want to it.