Releases/Announcement for F12 Alpha Release

In an ongoing effort to prevent premature kitten death, the Fedora Project is ecstatic to present the availability of Fedora 12 (Constantine) Alpha. Test now, make it better now, keep Constantine on schedule, and protect the kittens in the future.

The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider community to become involved with the testing of rawhide:

• Alpha represents a sanitized snapshot of rawhide, Fedora's development branch, which undergoes rapid changes before becoming the next major release.
• The Alpha should boot on the majority of systems, and provides:
  • A look at what new features are to be included in the next release
  • A way to provide feedback and bug reports to help ensure that the next release is as good as possible

Fedora 12 features

Some highlights of Fedora 12 Alpha:

• FIXME

For more information:

Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes

What to test

• FIXME

Test status is being tracked here:

QA/TestResults/Fedora10Install/Alpha

Check out this page before reporting problems, including looking through the bug trackers as linked on that page.

For a more detailed list of installation tests:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestPlans/Fedora10Install

Get the Alpha

The Alpha release is available both through the mirroring system and via bittorrent.

For direct http access to a local mirror:

http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/12-Alpha/

For a list of mirrors carrying the content and the various protocols they support:

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/10-Alpha/

For bittorrent:

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

Join Fedora

To find ways you can help and participate, visit:

http://join.fedoraproject.org/