« Frozen in Moscow | Main | The Internet Jihad and Mulsim Cartoons »
January 30, 2006
Fedora Core 5 - Test 2
The nice people from Fedora have just come up with FC5 Test2, which can be downloaded in the usual CD and DVD formats. The x86 DVD image looks like this:
SHA1: 8e9e6abebc6571f664df49ebe9ec204c01eec8ee FC5-test2-i386-DVD.iso
MD5: ec4c54629b41b7350a305cb4491058b8 FC5-test2-i386-DVD.iso
Some of the notable improvements include better SELinux integration and Kernel 2.6.15 which finally adds "libata" S.M.A.R.T. support:
[root@]# smartctl -i -d ata /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: ST3200826AS
Serial Number: 3ND1NXXX
Firmware Version: 3.03
User Capacity: 200,048,565,760 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Wed Feb 1 13:28:41 2006 EET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Being a test version means there will be occasional glitches, so proceed with care. For instance, my test machine crashed in the middle of Yum, 30 mins after startup.
Posted by Costin Raiu at January 30, 2006 1:33 PM