And now, the Fedora Project presents....
We're tired, we're droopy We're all a little loopy A Fedora Core Test Release Is invading your PC!
New features - interesting! The code could use some testing That's why we are requesting new bug reports quickly!
On our ftp site is the place where you will see The stuff that we've been working on since 1993! We're tired, we're droopy We're all a little loopy It's a Fedora Core Test Release Come and join the fun!
(And now our song is done.)
Yes, it's an update of SEVERN, the Fedora Core test release.
As always, test releases are not intended for use on production environments. Use of test releases in production environments could lead to disastrous results, such as spontaneous musical theatre from your engineers. Be afraid.
Problems with SEVERN should be reported via bugzilla, at:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
Please report bugs against 'Fedora Core', release 'test2'.
Technical note: There are some issues with the SMP kernel; on SMP machines after installation, you may need to boot the uniprocessor kernel for stability. We'll have a fixed kernel in the next day or three; please update as soon as one is available.
For more information on just what the Fedora Project and Fedora Core is, please see:
For discussion of SEVERN, send mail to:
fedora-test-list-request@redhat.com
with
subscribe
in the subject line. You can leave the body empty. Or see:
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list/
As always, you can get SEVERN at redhat.com, specifically:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/beta/severn/
Or the following mirrors:
North America: United States: - ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/RedHat/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - http://redhat.secsup.org/beta/severn/ - ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/beta/severn/ - ftp://redhat.dulug.duke.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - rsync://rsync.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/redhat/beta/severn/
Canada: - ftp://less.cogeco.net/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - ftp://ftp.nrc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/beta/severn/
South America: Chile: - ftp://ftp.tecnoera.com/Linux/redhat-beta/severn/
Europe: Czech Republic: - ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - rsync://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - ftp://ultra.linux.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - ftp://ftp6.linux.cz/pub/linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Estonia - ftp://redhat.linux.ee/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Germany: - ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/redhat-ftp/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/redhat-ftp/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Netherlands: - ftp://alviss.et.tudelft.nl/pub/redhat/beta/severn/ - ftp://ftp.quicknet.nl/pub/Linux/ftp.redhat.com/beta/severn/ United Kingdom: - http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/redhat/beta/severn/ - ftp://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/redhat/beta/severn/ - rsync://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/ftp/pub/distributions/redhat/beta/severn/
Asia/Pacific: Australia: - http://planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/redhat/linux/severn/ - ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/redhat/linux/severn/
One additional feature provided by the Linux community is the availability of SEVERN via BitTorrent.
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/severn2-binary-iso.torrent http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/severn2-source-iso.torrent
RPMS for Red Hat Linux 7.3 through 9 of BitTorrent are available from: http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/btrpms/
Usage is simple: btdownloadcurses.py --url http://URL.torrent
Allow incoming TCP 6881 - 6889 to join the torrent swarm. http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/
"BN" == Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com writes:
BN> Asia/Pacific: BN> Australia:
It's also available from
Japan - http://ftp.ne.jp/Linux/packages/RedHat/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - ftp://ftp.ne.jp/Linux/packages/RedHat/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ - rsync://ftp.ne.jp/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
courtesy of KDDI Labs (both via IPv4 and IPv6).
Could we include that in future announcements too, please?
Jens
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Bill Nottingham wrote:
We're all a little loopy
Technical note: There are some issues with the SMP kernel; on SMP machines after installation, you may need to boot the uniprocessor kernel for stability. We'll have a fixed kernel in the next day or three; please update as soon as one is available.
here's the SMP fix for the impatient - we'll be pushing out an updated kernel build ASAP. The UP kernel is not affected.
Ingo
--- linux/kernel/sched.c.orig +++ linux/kernel/sched.c @@ -1641,7 +1641,7 @@ void scheduling_functions_start_here(voi */ asmlinkage void schedule(void) { - int this_cpu = smp_processor_id(), retry = 0; + int this_cpu, retry; task_t *prev, *next; runqueue_t *rq; prio_array_t *array; @@ -1660,6 +1660,8 @@ asmlinkage void schedule(void) }
need_resched: + this_cpu = smp_processor_id(); + retry = 0; preempt_disable(); prev = current; rq = this_rq();