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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 Fedora's development branch, which sees rapid changes and becomes the next major release | |||
* The Alpha should boot on the majority of systems, providing: | |||
** 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. | |||
== WHAT'S NEW? == | == WHAT'S NEW? == | ||
Some highlights of Fedora 10 Alpha: | |||
For | * Many improvements, bugfixes, and enhancements from upstream | ||
* New graphical boot environment | |||
* Wireless connection sharing | |||
* Audio improvements to remove glitches | |||
* Security audit tool | |||
* Improved webcam support | |||
* Better IR remote control support | |||
* RPM 4.6 | |||
* OCaml | |||
* Haskell | |||
For more information: | |||
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Alpha/ReleaseNotes | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Alpha/ReleaseNotes | ||
== WHAT TO TEST == | |||
Test status is being tracked here: | |||
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestResults/Fedora10Install/Alpha | |||
'''Check out this page before reporting problems, including looking throuth the bug trackers as linked on that page.''' | |||
For a more detailed list of installation tests: | |||
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestPlans/Fedora10Install | |||
== GET FEDORA == | |||
The Alpha release is available both through our mirroring system and via bittorrent. | |||
For direct http access to a local mirror: | |||
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-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 US! == | == JOIN US! == |
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$PITH
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 Fedora's development branch, which sees rapid changes and becomes the next major release
- The Alpha should boot on the majority of systems, providing:
- 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.
WHAT'S NEW?
Some highlights of Fedora 10 Alpha:
- Many improvements, bugfixes, and enhancements from upstream
- New graphical boot environment
- Wireless connection sharing
- Audio improvements to remove glitches
- Security audit tool
- Improved webcam support
- Better IR remote control support
- RPM 4.6
- OCaml
- Haskell
For more information:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Alpha/ReleaseNotes
WHAT TO TEST
Test status is being tracked here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestResults/Fedora10Install/Alpha
Check out this page before reporting problems, including looking throuth the bug trackers as linked on that page.
For a more detailed list of installation tests:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestPlans/Fedora10Install
GET FEDORA
The Alpha release is available both through our mirroring system and via bittorrent.
For direct http access to a local mirror:
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-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 US!
To find ways you can help and participate, visit: