Fedora Core

[Posted December 1, 2004 by ris]

The Unofficial Fedora FAQ has been updated for Fedora Core 3. The Fedora Core 2 FAQ is still available here.

Dirk Westfal has announced a LiveCD with Fedora Core 3, KDE 3.3.1 and GNOME 2.8.

Fedora Core 3 updates: system-config-samba (add missing options), spamassassin (bug fixes from upstream), system-config-date (enable Gujarati and Tamil translations), system-config-securitylevel (fixes tracebacks introduced by the libselinux update), abiword (fixes for tempnam usages and startup geometry crashes), udev (turn off debug logging), prelink (several bug fixes), libselinux (change location of helper applications), policycoreutils (removes FixFiles.cron), alsa-lib (fix bad assertion that trips up gstreamer), man (bug fixes and enhancements), openmotif (latest Xpm patches, fixes CAN-2004-0914), openmotif21 (fixes CAN-2004-0914, CAN-2004-0687, CAN-2004-0688 and other bugs), iptables (fixed autoload problem in iptables and ip6tables (CAN-2004-0986)), postfix (bug fixes), postfix (fixes the fix), tvtime (update to 0.9.15), quagga (new upstream release, bug fixes), gtk2 (fixes some ABI breakage), gtksourceview (rebuild), gedit (rebuild), bash (cleanup), words (major upgrade), slang (corrects buffer overruns), shadow-utils (fixes bug in useradd), man-pages-pl (remove mc.1), aspell-bg (add bulgarian.kbd file), slang (fixes a very slight horizontal line artifact), brltty (don't make /etc/*.conf executable), cvs (replaced old SCCS migration script).

Fedora Core 2 updates: system-config-samba (add missing options), gaim (FC2 Update), tcpdump (fixed nfs protocol parsing for 64 bit architectures), man (bug fixes and enhancements), ppp (bug fixes), openmotif21 (fixes CAN-2004-0914, CAN-2004-0687, CAN-2004-0688 and other bugs), openmotif (fixes CAN-2004-0914, CAN-2004-0687, CAN-2004-0688 and other bugs), slang (fixes a very slight horizontal line artifact).