I installed Fedora 7 test 3 (Release 6.92) on my Dell laptop on April 22, 2007. Fedora 6.92 installed the kernel vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.3023.fc7, and many other late-releases of major applications. After installation, my desktop icons were different from the icons of Fedora Core 6. When the software updater program told me that there were several hundred updates available for download, I agreed to install those updates. It took the whole night to download the updates. When I rebooted the next day, my system had been upgraded to Fedora 6.93 (information from the file /etc/issue), and the desktop now has a totally different look.
My kernel is now vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.3094.fc7 and my Open Office is now openoffice.org-core-2.2.0-14.6.i386.rpm. We notice that the desktop icons for Terminal, Text Editor, Open Office, Computer, Trash, and Ambo's Home changed in the upgrade from 6.92 to 6.93. I am sure that these are not just cosmetic changes, but that the underlying software has become more robust after each new release. I am revising my estimate of the stability of Fedora 7 pre-releases. I believe that Fedora 7 will be released on time, according to the Fedora/RedHat published schedules. I can not include a picture of the 6.92 to 6.93 desktop changes here, but check out my blog for a picture of the changes: http://360.yahoo.com/prmanalastas. P~Manalastas _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
