{"id":10903,"date":"2007-11-14T17:59:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T14:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/14\/going-for-fedora-8\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T17:59:06","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T14:59:06","slug":"going-for-fedora-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/14\/going-for-fedora-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Going for Fedora 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new version of my favorite Linux distribution has been released recently – Fedora 8<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I got my hands on the installation DVD (thanks bro!) and tried it straight away.<\/p>\n

It didn’t go very well – the installation was hanging up during dependencies check.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought maybe it was something simple to fix and checked it with strace<\/em>, which showed that the installation was looping constantly creating some temporary files and then removing them.\u00c2\u00a0 I tried to create these files by hand, but they were immediately removed.\u00c2\u00a0 I asked around on #fedora IRC channel, but it was over a weekend and it was rather empty.\u00c2\u00a0 No tips were given.<\/p>\n

Then I came across Michael’s post<\/a> that reminded me that I could do an upgrade using Yum package manager<\/a>, bypassing the installation altogether.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Following the steps in the guide was simple and soon yum<\/em> started downloading the new packages.\u00c2\u00a0 But my Internet connection is pretty slow, it would have taken me about two days just to get the files. \u00c2\u00a0 Not much fun to wait.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead I decided to copy files from the DVD to \/var\/cache\/yum\/fedora\/packages\/<\/em> directory and restart the upgrade process.\u00c2\u00a0 Now all I needed to download were the updates that were released since the distribution went public.<\/p>\n

A couple of hours later I rebooted into Fedora 8, running the new tick-less kernel (the biggest reason for me to upgrade).\u00c2\u00a0 I also noticed that a few fonts packages were updated – fonts are sharper and cleaner.\u00c2\u00a0 NetworkManager was upgraded.\u00c2\u00a0 And a few other things improved.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard a lot of people complaining about sound problems due to a new sound server, but I didn’t have a chance to test it yet.\u00c2\u00a0 Other than this though everything seems to be running just fine.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

A new version of my favorite Linux distribution has been released recently – Fedora 8.\u00c2\u00a0 I got my hands on the installation DVD (thanks bro!) and tried it straight away. It didn’t go very well – the installation was hanging up during dependencies check.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought maybe it was something simple to fix and checked … Continue reading Going for Fedora 8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[918,859,2351,186,2811],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","tag-announcements","tag-experience","tag-fedora-linux","tag-news","tag-software-upgrades"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11193,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/06\/ubuntu-fedora-release-party\/","url_meta":{"origin":10903,"position":0},"title":"Ubuntu \/ Fedora release party","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Theodotos sent me a message, letting me know of the upcoming Ubuntu \/ Fedora release party that will take place in Frederick University on May 17, 2008. 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