Fedora 19 for Power Beta Available

[David Aquilina]

The Fedora for Power team is ready to take the cat out of the bag for
the beta release of Fedora 19, "Schrödinger's Cat", which is available
at your closest mirror: 

 http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/19-Beta/ppc64/


== What is the Beta release? ==

The Beta release is the last important milestone before the release of
Fedora 19. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates, leading up
to the general release of Fedora 19. Join us in making Fedora 19 a solid
release by downloading, testing, and providing your valuable feedback. 

Of course, this is a beta release, meaning that some problems may still
be lurking. Fedora for Power shares all of the bugs on the Common F19
bugs page, seen here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F19_bugs

Fedora 19 Beta's default configuration allows applications and users
with administrative privileges to install signed packages from the
official Fedora repositories (but no other packages) without
authentication or confirmation. This was inherited from PackageKit
upstream, is not Fedora's intended behavior, and will not be the case
for the Fedora 19 final release. More details on this issue and the
planned behavior for the final release can be found at
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1115 .

== Features ==

* Fedora for Power shares all of Fedora 19's features described in the
 Fedora 19 beta announcement:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F19_Beta_release_announcement

* Additionally, Fedora 19 for Power has now enabled the llvmpipe
 software renderer, resulting in dramatically improved graphics
 performance (including Gnome3 within VNC)

== Known Issues ==

* Firefox may crash the first time you start it. Subsequent launches
 will work without crashing. 

* When running Gnome3 under VNC, you may see an all-grey screen after
 answering the initial setup questions. Press the Escape key to go to
 the desktop.

* Graphical kickstart installations may fail when the same text-mode
 installation works.  See
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=966761

* Installation to Software RAID sets may fail if you allow anaconda to
 automatically partition your disks, then manually change partition
 types.  See
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=965865 and
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=966795

* If you unselect a multipath disk, it will disappear.
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955664

* The system may hang on reboot when an ipr disk (non-virtualized) is
 present. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=954252

== Contributing ==

More information on Fedora for Power can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Arch:PPC. To get involved in testing and
development of Fedora for Power, join us on IRC in #fedora-ppc on
Freenode. 



for the entire Fedora for Power team, 
David

-- 
David Aquilina, RHCE
Release Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.