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Fedora 11 coming closer

Just a quick reminder: Fedora 11 Beta is due tomorrow, March 31th (one week later than the initial schedule). The feature list is almost 100% completed and I must say I’m impressed with it so far (I’m running Rawhide as I said before). Here’s two more screenshots:

Fedora 11 preview

Fedora 11 Alpha came out a month ago, 2 days later than the initial schedule, and it has recently entered its “Feature Freeze” state. Codenamed Leonidas, Fedora 11 is due to be released on May 25th and it includes a large number of new features (most of them have already been approved). I’ve been using [...]

Fedora 11 Alpha YUM issues

There are quite a few Fedora 11 Alpha / Rawhide users complaining about not being able to perform a system update. Both YUM and PackageKit fail trying to download repomd.xml. I found different solutions for this, but none of them seemed to work for me. I was able to get it fixed in a different [...]

Upgrade your Fedora system with PreUpgrade

PreUpgrade is a Python tool that will make your life a lot easier should you decide to upgrade your Fedora OS. Using an easy and intuitive interface, it is designed to take care of all the things that anaconda normally handles during a regular upgrade. It downloads all new RPMs and dependencies, a new stage2 [...]