{"id":188,"date":"2008-12-10T16:45:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T21:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technologists.com\/notes\/?p=188"},"modified":"2008-12-10T16:45:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T21:45:23","slug":"semi-annual-fedora-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/2008\/12\/10\/semi-annual-fedora-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-annual Fedora Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:543,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/fedoraproject.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251031164530\\\/https:\\\/\\\/fedoraproject.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-01 07:57:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-14 13:44:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-03 18:59:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-09 01:56:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-19 17:30:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-23 21:06:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-29 20:42:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-05 22:52:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-09 22:41:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-17 05:48:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-02 21:52:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-11 12:29:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-18 11:05:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-25 11:22:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 06:07:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 17:16:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 04:56:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 15:38:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 14:52:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 13:44:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 06:16:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 06:16:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:544,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/ubuntu.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251101033632\\\/https:\\\/\\\/ubuntu.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-01 07:57:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-03 18:59:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-09 01:56:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-19 17:30:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-29 20:42:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-06 07:35:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-17 05:49:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-02 21:52:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 04:56:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 14:52:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 12:42:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 12:10:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 12:10:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/\">Fedora Project<\/a> (and for that matter <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a>) seem to have settled into semi-annual, roughly May (April) and November (October), release cycles, with Fedora 10 general availability just over two weeks ago. As usual I felt obligated to explore the new edition, and assuming it was acceptable, quickly put it into production.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fedora 10 doesn&#8217;t feel much different to me than Fedora 9, as compared to the &#8220;feeling&#8221; of Fedora 9 vs. predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>There are some installation differences, e.g., that the legacy &#8220;text mode&#8221; option is gone (and missed, by me) and that one has to append &#8220;askmethod&#8221; to the installation invocation to get to installation images on local drives\/media. (And, that media effectively needs to appear as a mounted DVD.)<\/p>\n<p>Network Manager still doesn&#8217;t seem to know how to properly configure static interfaces on my machines, but the same workarounds carry forward from Fedora 9 to 10.<\/p>\n<p>The PackageKit update stuff seems to work OK from native X, which is an improvement, but not with VNC, so I&#8217;m still glad I&#8217;m used to using yum directly.<\/p>\n<p>For that matter, VNC Server is no longer on the DVD, but easy enough to fetch from the network repository.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m running out of differences to remember to point out, so again, not a lot of differences. I see different GNOME bugs, some of which seem like they would be really annoying to casual users, but are easy to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m now on Fedora 10 on both my externally facing server and my (mostly hidden from the outside) internal server, and it seems to do what I want. So I&#8217;m thankful to all of the folks who make Fedora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fedora Project (and for that matter Ubuntu) seem to have settled into semi-annual, roughly May (April) and November (October), release cycles, with Fedora 10 general availability just over two weeks ago. 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