[Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Final Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Available Now!

[Chuck Anderson]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:03:12PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 01:09 -0400, Andre Robatino wrote:
> > As per the Fedora 16 schedule [1], Fedora 16 Final Release Candidate 3
> > (RC3) is now available for testing. Please see the following pages for
> > download links (including delta ISOs) and testing instructions.
> > Serverbeach1 is still available as a mirror (but with approximately a 1
> > hour lag behind dl), so if you are getting a slow download, try
> > replacing "dl" with "serverbeach1" in the download URL.
> > 
> > Installation:
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test
> > 
> > Base:
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test
> > 
> > Desktop:
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test
> > 
> > Security Lab:
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Security_Lab_Test
> > 
> > Ideally, all Alpha, Beta, and Final priority test cases for Installation
> > [2], Base [3], Desktop [4], and Security Lab [5] should pass in order to
> > meet the Final Release Criteria [6]. Help is available on #fedora-qa on
> > irc.freenode.net [7], or on the test list [8].
> 
> As mentioned before, we don't really need to re-do the whole set of
> tests, but it'd be good to get a few done just to make sure the RC3
> image hasn't gone horribly wrong somehow. The only things that should
> have changed are KDE and Xfce bug fixes. To check the KDE issue, install
> F15 from the KDE live spin then try upgrading with the F16 RC3 DVD; it
> should work.

Whether by luck-of-the-draw or not, efidisk.img appears correct
(i.e. non-zeroed content) in this release!