Fedora 19 Release Candidate 1 Is Ready

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora 19 Release Candidate 1 Is Ready

The hope is to officially release Fedora 19 next week while out quietly today is the release candidate...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTM5NTU

[Ericg]

Phoronix: Fedora 19 Release Candidate 1 Is Ready

The hope is to officially release Fedora 19 next week while out quietly today is the release candidate...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTM5NTU

Just for comparison, and to immediately shut down all the "It didnt ship on time!!" people... Fedora 18 was 2 months late. This release was 1month late, and honestly is a much better (in terms of features) release. Congrats to the Fedora team, I plan on doing a FedUp upgrade on release-day to see how it goes-- will report back, but I will be wiping and installing overtop of it afterwards just because I'm changing around partitions.

[droidhacker]

Just for comparison, and to immediately shut down all the "It didnt ship on time!!" people... Fedora 18 was 2 months late. This release was 1month late, and honestly is a much better (in terms of features) release. Congrats to the Fedora team, I plan on doing a FedUp upgrade on release-day to see how it goes-- will report back, but I will be wiping and installing overtop of it afterwards just because I'm changing around partitions.

Don't care if its late. Its semi-not-far-off, and totally free. Try finding a non-free OS that ships that close to on-time.

[birdie]

I don't understand how I can download it.

The original mailing list post seems a bit cryptic too me. Fedora's mirrors only have F19 Alpha and Beta versions.

[Ericg]

I don't understand how I can download it.

The original mailing list post seems a bit cryptic too me. Fedora's mirrors only have F19 Alpha and Beta versions.

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt...19-TC1/Fedora/

Click your architecture and then 'iso' and then your download link. Fedora names release candidates as "TC" 's, if I remember right it stands for Test Candidate but regardless-- there ya go

[BitRot]

I'm running Fedora 19 since beta, and it's been a really smooth ride so far.
Especially Gnome Shell 3.8 is a real improvement over 3.6, I like how Gnome is incrementally getting better and better. :-)

And if Adam is reading this: Thank you. I know the QA people got a lot of flak for Anaconda in 18, but don't let that demotivate you,
Anaconda in 19 is really better than in 18, and I encourage everyone to try it out once 19 is fully released.

In fact, I recently converted my parents PCs from Windows to Fedora (18), and even they really like it, especially the slick interface of Gnome Shell.

Good job guys!

[Ericg]

I just realized there is a MASSIVE typo in my first post...

CORRECTION: Fedora 18 shipped 2 months late, Fedora 19 is set to ship 1 WEEK late-- not 1month.

[birdie]

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt...19-TC1/Fedora/

Click your architecture and then 'iso' and then your download link. Fedora names release candidates as "TC" 's, if I remember right it stands for Test Candidate but regardless-- there ya go

Thanks! Obliged.

[RahulSundaram]

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt...19-TC1/Fedora/

Click your architecture and then 'iso' and then your download link. Fedora names release candidates as "TC" 's, if I remember right it stands for Test Candidate but regardless-- there ya go

That is really the test candidate from a while back (see the date in the files). If you want RC1, get it from

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-RC1/

[Ericg]

That is really the test candidate from a while back (see the date in the files). If you want RC1, get it from

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-RC1/

Thanks for the correction Rahul, perhaps that could be made more obvious in the mailing list announcement next time. I only found the link that I did by best guess and what 'looked right.'