Cambridge (F-10) Beta release announcement

[Jesse Keating]

Fedora 10 Beta: Cambridge's foundations are laid

Just on the heels of the Fedora Project's fifth anniversary, the Beta of
Fedora Linux version 10 (code-named Cambridge) is now available:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

There is also a Beta contest! Test five things in the Beta that are
important to you as a user. If you find a bug *and* report it, you get
the free attention of a package maintainer on a problem personally
important to you!

https://bugzilla.redhat.com

Do your part to make Fedora 10 that much better.

Among the new, fun, and interesting features:

      * New NetworkManager with connection sharing
      * Improved printer handling
      * Remote virtualization and easier virt storage
      * Sectool, an auditing and security testing framework
      * RPM 4.6, the first big RPM change in several years

... and more ...

      * New version of PackageKit for managing software, with more fixes
        and enhancements (which benefits all distributions)
      * New version of PulseAudio (which benefits all distributions)
      * Kernel 2.6.27, including better support for WiFi
      * Better support for the EFI for Apple Macintosh hardware
      * Faster graphical start-up by Plymouth, replacing the venerable
        RHGB
      * Better support for webcams through the hard work in kernel
        2.6.27 (which benefits all distributions)
      * New icon theme "Echo", to be completed with the theme graphic
        "Solar" in the Fedora 10 release
      * Gnome 2.24
      * KDE 4.1
      * Adding the NetBeans IDE
      * Eclipse 3.4
      * Automatic installation of multimedia codecs
      * Better HDTV support in X.org
      * "Sugar" graphical environment (from OLPC) available for use,
        testing, and development

A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList

For release information, including common and known bugs, please see our
release notes:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Beta/ReleaseNotes

-- 
Jesse Keating
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[Mike Chambers]

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 07:12 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  Fedora 10 Beta: Cambridge's foundations are laid
>  
>  Just on the heels of the Fedora Project's fifth anniversary, the Beta of
>  Fedora Linux version 10 (code-named Cambridge) is now available:
>  
>  http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease 
Bits still not released or at least permissions not taken off mirrors
yet?  I guess I am finally on top of a release and catching the
announcement early for once and takes time for the permissions to catch
on?

-- 
Mike Chambers
Fedora Project - Ambassador, Bug Zapper, Tester, User, etc..
mikec302(a)fedoraproject.org

[Rahul Sundaram]

Mike Chambers wrote:
>  On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 07:12 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Fedora 10 Beta: Cambridge's foundations are laid
> >
> > Just on the heels of the Fedora Project's fifth anniversary, the Beta of
> > Fedora Linux version 10 (code-named Cambridge) is now available:
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
>  
>  Bits still not released or at least permissions not taken off mirrors
>  yet?  I guess I am finally on top of a release and catching the
>  announcement early for once and takes time for the permissions to catch
>  on? 
Yes, just wait for a (short) while.

Rahul

[Christoph Höger]

Does installing the beta mean to use rawhide? or is there an easy way to
get stable repositories of Fedora 10 when they're out?

[Peter Robinson]

>  Does installing the beta mean to use rawhide? or is there an easy way
> to
>  get stable repositories of Fedora 10 when they're out? 
Just before the final release is done the rawhide will point to the
stable F-10 repos so that when F-10 is out you will be running the
stable version and have to actively move back to the unstable rawhide.

Peter

[Christoph Höger]

Am Dienstag, den 30.09.2008, 16:51 +0100 schrieb Peter Robinson:
>  > Does installing the beta mean to use rawhide? or is there an
> easy way to
>  > get stable repositories of Fedora 10 when they're out?
>  
>  Just before the final release is done the rawhide will point to the
>  stable F-10 repos so that when F-10 is out you will be running the
>  stable version and have to actively move back to the unstable rawhide.
>  
>  Peter
>   
Nice. Thanks for the answer :)

[Till Maas]

On Tue September 30 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  Fedora 10 Beta: Cambridge's foundations are laid
>
>  Just on the heels of the Fedora Project's fifth anniversary, the Beta of
>  Fedora Linux version 10 (code-named Cambridge) is now available:
>
>  http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease 
I am probably the only one trying to do this, but how can I verify the SHA1SUM 
files for the i686 Live iso? I did not investigate it completely, but it 
seems that it is only signed with some new key, that is not listed here:
https://fedoraproject.org/keys

The os dir of a nearby mirror contains several gpg key files with different 
sizes and names, that are also not mentioned in above webpage. 

>  There is also a Beta contest! Test five things in the Beta that are
>  important to you as a user. If you find a bug *and* report it, you get
>  the free attention of a package maintainer on a problem personally
>  important to you! 
I hope I can join the contest with my current findings. ;-)

Regards,
Till

[Matt Garretson]

Till Maas wrote:
>  I am probably the only one trying to do this, but how can I verify
> the SHA1SUM 
>  files for the i686 Live iso? I did not investigate it completely, but it 
>  seems that it is only signed with some new key, that is not listed here: 

You're not the only one!  I couldn't find the key ID (0B86274E for
Fedora-10-Beta-x86_64) in any key servers, or anywhere under
/etc/pki , either. 


-Matt

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 22:43 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
>  I am probably the only one trying to do this, but how can I verify
> the SHA1SUM 
>  files for the i686 Live iso? I did not investigate it completely, but it 
>  seems that it is only signed with some new key, that is not listed here:
>  https://fedoraproject.org/keys 
That has been updated, thanks.

>  
>  The os dir of a nearby mirror contains several gpg key files with different 
>  sizes and names, that are also not mentioned in above webpage.  
Many of these are symlinks so that secondary arches can use our
fedora-release package but their own gpg key.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

[Till Maas]

On Wed October 1 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 22:43 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
>  > I am probably the only one trying to do this, but how can I verify the
>  > SHA1SUM files for the i686 Live iso? I did not investigate it completely,
>  > but it seems that it is only signed with some new key, that is not listed
>  > here: https://fedoraproject.org/keys
>
>  That has been updated, thanks.
>
>  > The os dir of a nearby mirror contains several gpg key files with
>  > different sizes and names, that are also not mentioned in above webpage.
>
>  Many of these are symlinks so that secondary arches can use our
>  fedora-release package but their own gpg key. 
There are also some fingerprints of the gpg keys at:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/fingerprints

Can you please sync them too?

Also these keys are install without the "-primary" suffix from 
fedora-release-8-6.transition, but mentioned with the "-primary" suffix on 
the keys page:

RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-8-and-9-primary
RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test-8-and-9-primary

Regards,
Till

[Todd Zullinger]

Till Maas wrote:
>  There are also some fingerprints of the gpg keys at:
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/fingerprints
>  
>  Can you please sync them too? 
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/814

I think that page should just direct folks to /keys for the gpg key
info rather than keeping it in two places (or both pages should
include the same source so the data only ever needs to be updated in
one place).

I don't know where the source is kept for /fingerprints or I'd have
submitted a patch to at least sync them when I filed the trac ticket a
few weeks ago.

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