Fedora 19 for Power Beta Available

[Timo Schöler]

On 05/28/2013 10:55 PM, thus David Aquilina spake:

> 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/

Hi,

I just downloaded the ISO and am burning it right now -- it does *not*
fit onto a DVD-R or DVD+r medium, as it's too big. DL is mandatory.

Is that intended?

Best,

Timo

> == 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
>