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FC2 transferred to Legacy, FC4 Test 2 released
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Written by wunk
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Monday, 11 April 2005
Fresh from the fedora-announce-list
With the release of Fedora Core 4 Test 2, the Fedora Steering Committee
would like to announce the transfer of Fedora Core 2 to the Fedora
Legacy Project. For more information on the Fedora Legacy Project, or if you wish to join the team please see http://fedoralegacy.org/ Raleigh, NC (HC) - The Fedora Project today announced the first test release of Fedora Core 4, bringing new technology to Linux users everywhere, and the first release of Fedora Core to support PPC out of the box. Designed as a general purpose operating system for a variety of uses, Fedora Core 4 Test 2 offers various improvements over Fedora Core 3. People who have used Test 1 will notice the following improvements: - GNOME updated to 2.10 final - KDE updated to 3.4.0 final - Firefox updated to 1.0.2 - OpenOffice.org update to 1.9.89 - many various bugfixes Users were cautioned against using Fedora Core Test 2 in production environments. Reminding the users that it's a test release, Otto said "There's no guarantee that it won't eat your data or fail to install. It could even cause an alien takeover of your humble town." Please report problems at: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla File bugs against product 'Fedora Core', release 'fc4test1'. Fedora Core 4 Test 2 is available for x86, x86_64, and PPC architectures. It is available here or from one of the mirrors Fedora Core 4 Test 2 is also available via BitTorrent:
FC4-test2-binary-i386.torrent
FC4-test2-binary-x86_64.torrent
FC4-test2-binary-ppc.torrent
For DVD and other formats, see http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/ BitTorrent can be installed from Fedora Extras: and also from: http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/btrpms/
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