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Re: Announcing Fedora Core 4 test1 (fwd)



Darn.. Steve beat me to it... Thats why I was at best buy tonight :-P
I needed CDs.
-- Kyle

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 18:56 -0600, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> Oops, forgot to mention this...
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> -----
> 
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:49:59 -0500 (EST)
> From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
> To: fedora-announce-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Announcing Fedora Core 4 test1
> Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com
> 
> It's time for the first test release in the Fedora Core 4 development
> cycle.
> 
> FC4test1 is available for i386, x86_64, and (for the first time) PPC/PPC64!
> 
> You can download it via BitTorrent from http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/ (recommended)
> 		or
> via HTTP/FTP from
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/3.90/ or any
> of the fine Fedora mirrors listed at
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
> 
> Notable features of FC4test1 include:
> 	. gcc 4.0 as the primary system compiler
> 	. GNOME 2.10.0 Beta 2 included
> 	. The Eclipse IDE included along with some featured plugins
> 	. A solid foundation of Java packages for developers (ant, gcj, tomcat, struts, more classpath stuff)
> 	  and the ability to possibly run Java apps through gij.
> 	. Lots of package updates
> 	. Started movement of packages to Fedora Extras
> 	. Did I mention PowerPC support?
> 
> That said, this IS a test release, and I guarantee that there will be bugs
> that will be annoying. Your help is needed to find and report those bugs
> in bugzilla (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/). Please also try
> updating packages from the development tree, to see if the bugs are
> already fixed there.
> 
> Questions? Comments? Rotten tomatoes? Send them my way!
> -- Elliot
> 
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