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Fedora 7 suppresses Red Hat separation anxiety

Fedora developers have performed a catch and release with their beloved operating system, unleashing today the final cut of Fedora 7. The new OS loses some of its sex appeal in that the Fedora team has focused more on form than function. For example, the "Core" designation (Fedora Core 5, Fedora Core 6) has been dropped from …

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Christopher Michaelis

Not quite ready?

I've been a long-time fan of FC and am running it almost exclusively on all of my boxes. As such I was probably one of the first to download F7 on the 31st... after installing it, I've run into some problems:

1) The installer seems to be oblivious to what you've actually chosen to install if you run it in text-mode. For instance, I checked 'web development', 'eclipse', and 'xfce' - none of which were installed; instead I was greeted with the gnome desktop which I had unchecked!

2) LSI logic controllers don't seem to be supported (didn't recognize my SCSI drives), so I popped in an old ATA card. This worked, but every few seconds I get ominous error messages from ATA popping up across the console.

Other than this, it's a very shiny and nice looking system! Now if they'd just dump yum once and for all, and use apt by default instead... I'd be quite happy indeed.

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