Jump to content

Announcing Fedora 7 (Moonshine)


Reiver_Fluffi
 Share

Recommended Posts

Howdy, cousins! Welcome to our little Fedora hollow, where we've

brewed up some mighty, mighty Fedora 7 Moonshine for your enjoyment.

Here, I'll help you pour that ... and some for me ... *cough, cough*

Smoooooth ... sure does taste good. It's been sitting here in the jug

for almost a whole month now! Go ahead and help yourself to some

more:

 

http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html

 

What's the most important thing to do if you are upgrading your Fedora

version? Why, that's easy! Read the release notes, it prevents

hangovers:

 

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes

 

What are new things to do with your Moonshine?

 

* Mix and remix this Moonshine to come up with as many flavored drinks

as there is Joe-Pye weed in the Appalachians. Want an OS to

send home with the students or staff? Add packages, remove

packages, spin it any way you like. Let a thousand distros bloom!

 

* Bottle up that custom mix and call it an appliance. ISV building an

appliance product? Make an RPM, identify the minimal number of

packages needed for an appliance around that RPM, then build a

distro and a live image. Easy as moon pie.

 

Gol' darn, but this is good 'shine. *hic* There, is that enough? No?

Here, let me pour us some more, and we can toast the most important

part of this Moonshine -- the makers. You thought I made it? Oh, no.

No special elite brewmaster here, I'm just a bartender, and this log

is my bar! Ha ha. No, really ... see ...

 

Fedora 7 is the first release where the development was one hunnerd

and one per-cent in the community. How? It's simple, cousin -- all

the code was merged into a single external repository. Why? Same

great distribution quality, even more high-quality developers able to

work directly with the code and improve the flavor of over 7500

packages.

 

Grab that jug, look inside, and you find:

 

* KDE? Yep, with Moonshine, Fedora and KDE are gettin' downright

friendly with each other.

 

* Laptops? A tickless kernel means better power consumption for

laptops; extended wireless functionality, meaning more chances

hardware will Just Work. Yee-ha!

 

* Get those Live images, burn CDs or DVDs, and share them with your

friends and neighbors. This is the first Fedora distribution with

full Live CD/DVD capability.

 

* Interoperability? Let's start with resizing and reading of NTFS

file systems. How about those Liberation fonts, d'you like how they

just slip right in where other fonts were used?

 

* Why stop with just one fruit jar of virtualization? This release

includes support for KVM and overall more virtualization capability.

 

* As always, tasty new graphics for the Fedora 7 desktop, as well as

an updated Website look and functionality, including a new build and

package update system.

 

More? Read up at:

 

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-note...n-OverView.html

 

Oops, looks like we drank up all that jug. Guess I'll just make a

trip over the torrents to get me another. All right, then, we'll

see you. Y'all come back soon now, ya hear?

 

= Want Fedora? Get Fedora =

 

http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html

 

Without fail another Fedora release announcement that makes me laugh (for the right reasons).

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 43
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Starting to download the live CD, estimated 4 hours (http/ftp)

Starting to download the DVD, estimated 65 hours (http/ftp)

 

My link is slow, what can I say ;)

 

EDIT:

 

Found a better mirror, Live CD in about 2 hours. DVD will start downloading after that, as created script to wget it all, and I can leave it all weekend :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

[justin@echelon ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)

 

and

 

[justin@comatose ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)

 

Of course B)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Anyone installing this but not watching the fedora forum or bugzilla should be careful when enabling system sounds on gnome, as it basically breaks gnome :(

 

but that's easily fixed by editing the following line in /etc/esd.conf

default_options=

 

changing it to:

default_options=-nobeeps -unix -as 2

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
 Share


×
×
  • Create New...