EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it!
In today’s edition of the Herbertville Chronicle, read all about
the second test release of Fedora Core 4!
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:
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 from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/3.91/
and at the following mirrors:
Other mirrors will come online in the near future. See:
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
for mirror near you. Thanks to Shane Brath for generating the
mirror the mirror list.
Fedora Core 4 Test 2 is also available via BitTorrent:
http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/FC4-test2-binary-i386.torrent
http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/FC4-test2-binary-x86_64.torrent
http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/FC4-test2-binary-ppc.torrent
For DVD and other formats, see http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/
BitTorrent can be installed from Fedora Extras:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/
and also from:
http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/btrpms/
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/
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