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Spending almost close to 5-6 hours in LiveCD environment was something new and nice.
I installed Flashplugin, Opera alpha browser and kept doing my daily work (ssh, firefox, doc/pdf reading etc, Evolution email etc) to see all is working. kept checking all my hardware was recognized or not etc.
I think Everyone should do this beta testing on their PC, fire smoltSendProfile command from terminal sending your hardware profile to developers, this is user's chance to tell Fedora developers hard is supported or not, so When final version is released, you will know it will work or not and whether your suggestion was listened or not.
Download:- http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/. If you don't know what do download, then check you got Intel or AMD machine and get Fedora-8-Test-2-Live-i686.torrent (639MB).
I want ALL Linux distro users to download Fedora Test2 Live CDs and check whether all is working or not, if you find problems you can communicateor open a simple request to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ or check http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugsAndFeatureRequests.
Have Fun!
PS:- Waiting for Oct 4 2007 now :)
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Slashdot It! So I downloaded Fedora-developer liveCD test2 to beta test. I was interested in getting hardware test first to see out_of_box support for my HP Pavilion 6000 series laptop ( 6114tx Centrino duo to be exact ).
* To my surprise , wifi (wpa2 personal) with encryption worked Out_Of_Box :)
* NTFS Partition read support in Nautilus out_of_box :) , check out right click on Drive " Properties" Window.
* Home-page @ Firefox is http://start.fedoraproject.org/ (Interesting ;) ).
*/sbin/lspci result as follows:-
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72M [GeForce Go 7400] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
07:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
07:05.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
07:05.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
07:05.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
07:05.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
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* It did not include Geforce7400gs drivers by default even though that hardware was recognized properly .
* with command smoltSendProfile, I was able to send ALL system profile to Smolt Project, its the best project for Community driven Operating systems (it's kept open by fedora so all other Distros use it too) to judge how many hardware profiles are supported and whats the user-base. you can see my user profile at smolt.fedoraproject.org
Using this for past couple of hours now and everything appears smooth and stable. More updates will follow.
Just found out that I still have to test everything related to laptop as suggested on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureLaptopImprovements
You might want to add this page to the http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/hp.html page
Thanks for the comment Erik :), I agree.
I am surely going to add all details, But I think I should wait for final release of F8.
Anshu.