Fedora 16 Alpha is released today, featuring GNOME 3.1.4 with a unified input indicator for keyboard layouts and input methods, KDE 4.7, GRUB 2 on new installations (with GPT disk labels) and several other major changes. You can download it now. Remember to read the important information in the release notes and common bugs page.
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Member since:2010-09-01
>It is an alpha, system eating gremlins are to be anticipated. if it does it in betas and RCs then we can start being disappointed
>It is a Alpha release. Have you filed a bug report?
So does alpha means no testing whatsoever on the most popular GPUs (nvidia, ati, intel) before releasing?
At least before releasing the alpha, shouldn't the devs try booting the live-cd /live-usb with some well-known hardwares and drivers?
Is this what being a user means? Filing bugs even for the obvious absolute untested releases? And strangely, this 3d crash in nouveau/nvidia bug is not mentioned in Known issues. Which should not have been there if they tested just by booting with the shiny new release.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Alpha_release_notes#Known_I...
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs
Member since:2005-07-06
You do realize that we don't have all the different hardware? We test on our own systems and I don't have a Nvidia system for instance and 3D is Nouveau is very much specific to the hardware in question.
Since it is not a known issue, it is not in that list. If you file a bug report, the developer can track it down and fix it. If you rather complain here, feel free to.
The assertion that it can be found by basic testing is factually incorrect since this test releases went through several test and releases candidates and noone has reported the bug apparently. If you follow Fedora test list, this would be obvious and you can find the list of releases at
https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/
Edited 2011-08-25 20:21 UTC
Member since:2005-07-06
It's what being an alpha user means yes. By choosing to run an alpha you generally accept that you're the one *doing* the front line testing. There's any number of places that regressions can occur during the prep of a codebase for creating a test release, anywhre from upstream itself to the tools that build the isos. That's why there are alphas in the first place, to find and work out the kinks.
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It is an alpha, system eating gremlins are to be anticipated. if it does it in betas and RCs then we can start being disappointed