Announcing Fedora Core 5 Test 2

[Rahul Sundaram]

Igor Jagec wrote:

>Jesse Keating wrote:
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>>Notable Features of FC5 Test2
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>>* New Logo
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>It looks nice.
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>>* Package selection within the installer has been reenabled.
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>Yep, but the problem is that now is much more time consuming for
>selecting packages than it was in FC4. It has more package group
>selections and has no option of Minimal Install in graphical mode. Do
>you plan to improve that Pirut interface? I don't know but it seems to
>me that now it takes more time to resolve dependencies comparing to FC4.
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Performance improvements follow basic feature sets.

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>>* Based on gcc4.1 for performance and security
>>* Gnome 2.13.4
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>What GNOME will be included in FC5, 2.12 or 2.14?
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2.14

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>>* Support for dmraid in the installer (motherboard based raid).
>>* Pirut (pronounced like a pirate): Package Installer, Remover, Updater
>>Tool.  Includes pup, the Package Updater Program.
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>Is it going to be included in FC5? Now it looks like it is in early
>stage of development.
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Yes. Planned to be included in FC5. Can we finally drop up2date and 
rhn-applet from the release?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167770

>P.S. I found some review of FC2t5, but with FC5t1 screenshots thoe (?)
>     http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=5971
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Note those are FC5 test 2 (not FC2t5 ;-). I will write up a response to 
fedora-marketing list later on.

-- 
Rahul 

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