Fedora 7 released

[Fundi]

Download at:

ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/iso/F-7-i386-DVD.iso
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/iso/SHA1SUM

AMD64

ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/iso/F-7-x86_64-DVD.iso
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/iso/SHA1SUM

I'm getting better speeds from torrent though:

[karellen]

I'm downloading the Live CD right now

[igknighted]

Grr... They didn't release before I left for work this morning so I couldn't start it early. Sounds like a tomorrow project at the pace the mirrors will be going (no torrents on my home computer, kills my connection every time :()

[Kingsley]

I won't bother for this version. It's not offering anything exciting.

[MrWizard]

It would be nice to not need xorg.conf. But that alone is not nearly enough to get me to use Fedora. It'll likely be included in Ubuntu 7.10, too.

[madmetal]

i download it so as to try it but torrent speed is low!

[screaminj3sus]

i download it so as to try it but torrent speed is low!

Also getting really slow torrent speed, there's like 6000 leachers and 600 seeds.

[karellen]

I won't bother for this version. It's not offering anything exciting.

well how about curiosity?

[darksong]

This version is very rough around the edges. Its lost alot of its polish and quality from FC6. I think the theme is of less quality from the previous one. Its documentation is lacking, nothing about getting 3D drivers on fedora wiki - and nothing that i can see on the forums :S. Hopefully they improve on the quality with updates - if not i will dump this distro or put FC6 back on this partition.

[igknighted]

This version is very rough around the edges. Its lost alot of its polish and quality from FC6. I think the theme is of less quality from the previous one. Its documentation is lacking, nothing about getting 3D drivers on fedora wiki - and nothing that i can see on the forums :S. Hopefully they improve on the quality with updates - if not i will dump this distro or put FC6 back on this partition.

Fedora wiki is always slow to update, relax. If you look in the how-to section of the forum all of the major how-to's have been updated. If by drivers you mean graphics drivers, just go to rpm.livna.org and download the driver, the appropriate kmod, and the livna-display-config packages and install them (or add livna-7 as a repo for yum, both work well).

Overall, it seems solid to me. It only recognized my 17" lcd monitor as 800x600, but it was easy enough to fix, no CLI needed. I had used test4 for some time quite happily, and things only seem better in F7 (final).

EDIT: I did like DNA better, but the new theme blows away almost all other gnome themes (especially the wretchedness that Ubuntu calls a theme), so I can't complain. Besides, it's easy enough to revert back to DNA anyways.

EDIT 2: Remember, they didn't have a true test release after the final merge of extras and core, so there very well could be a few package management issues for a week or so. I would expect these to smooth out soon though, if there are any.

EDIT 3: Links to the ATI and Nvidia how to's:
NVIDIA: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=99285
ATI: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=127305

Note that now livna has a working Fedora 7 repo as well, so if you change the 6 to a 7 you can use the Fedora 6 instructions as well.

[Liquid Punk]

I ordered 'Fedora 7 i386 DVD' from LinuxCD.org, costs £2.99 for the DVD and £0.99 for the shipping; £3.98 altogether :) quite a nice deal. I was gonna get some Debian DVD's as well to go with my Fedora DVD and Ubuntu CD's but I'm so totally skint I couldn't afford the extra £8.

[darksong]

Fedora wiki is always slow to update, relax. If you look in the how-to section of the forum all of the major how-to's have been updated. If by drivers you mean graphics drivers, just go to rpm.livna.org and download the driver, the appropriate kmod, and the livna-display-config packages and install them (or add livna-7 as a repo for yum, both work well).

Overall, it seems solid to me. It only recognized my 17" lcd monitor as 800x600, but it was easy enough to fix, no CLI needed. I had used test4 for some time quite happily, and things only seem better in F7 (final).

EDIT: I did like DNA better, but the new theme blows away almost all other gnome themes (especially the wretchedness that Ubuntu calls a theme), so I can't complain. Besides, it's easy enough to revert back to DNA anyways.

EDIT 2: Remember, they didn't have a true test release after the final merge of extras and core, so there very well could be a few package management issues for a week or so. I would expect these to smooth out soon though, if there are any.

EDIT 3: Links to the ATI and Nvidia how to's:
NVIDIA: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=99285
ATI: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=127305

Note that now livna has a working Fedora 7 repo as well, so if you change the 6 to a 7 you can use the Fedora 6 instructions as well.

Thanks for the info =), i have been trying to find the previous DNA background from FC6, no luck searching for it on gnome look. I did like the way they included the older icon set in different themes :D. Do you know if installing from the DVD or CD's will give me a better desktop compared to that of the live CD install?

Many thanks DS

[CocoAUS]

I was thoroughly unimpessed with F7. It's slower than FC6 (especially running the livecd), yum is still dreadfully slow, wireless setup is annoying, etc. They have a rather poor set of preselected packages, I think, and they added all sorts of Windows-style "user friendly" features which are really just annoying. The menus are messed up, there are all sorts of extra folders everywhere (~/Downloads in the Places menu isn't even where files download to by default--they go to Desktop/download). It's just...a mess. Even the package names still end in .fc7 instead of just f7.

Yo ho, yo ho, a Debian life for me :)

[igknighted]

Thanks for the info =), i have been trying to find the previous DNA background from FC6, no luck searching for it on gnome look. I did like the way they included the older icon set in different themes :D. Do you know if installing from the DVD or CD's will give me a better desktop compared to that of the live CD install?

Many thanks DS

Theres an artwork section in the fedora wiki, you could install any combo of older Fedora themes or proposed (but unselected) themes for F7.

I haven't played with the live CDs, the Gnome desktop from the DVD install (aside from the not as cool wallpaper) is equally on par with Fedora Core 6 (IMHO), just enable font antialiasing (you need to install gconf-editor) and its still easily the nicest gnome desktop there is.

[gamma]

I've been an Ubuntu user for two years now and I decided to give Fedora a try. They've got Richard Stallman so it's as in the spirit of open source you can get. The artwork is amazing, the boot screen, cursors and the GDM theme (although I'm not a fan of the icon theme).

Xaero_Vincent as osnews.com made this what's new list:

* Automatic hotplugging display devices (X-server 1.3)
* Core and Extras merged and better security auditing
* Fedora Directory Server (like Active Directory)
* New 80211Mac (Devicescape) network stack
* Tickless kernel (better power management)
* Comprehensive SELinux GUI config tool
* New installable Live CDs including KDE
* SELinux troubleshooting tool included
* More open community involvement
* New FOSS Nvidia driver (testing)
* Much faster Yum, Pirut, Pup
* Wireless firmware included
* KVM (Kernel Virtulization)
* Latest software packages
* Improved I18N support
* Smolt (hardware tool)
* Fast User Switching
* New desktop theme
* New Firewire stack
* New libata driver
* Liberation fonts

http://osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=18007&comment_id=244469

Personally I like how they have Pidgin out of the box and things seem more polished. Fonts seem smoother compared to Ubuntu (which I thought always set the bar as far as fonts are concerned IMO). The Liberation fonts are amazing, they're my new default. I'd say things are just as easy as Ubuntu too. I'm probably going to stick with this distro for a while. Also my CPU fan seems a lot quieter in FC7, not exactly sure why, but it's nice to not hear the hum of my tiny laptop fan.

[Tux Aubrey]

I tried the Live CD of Fedora 7 in my seach for another distro to dual boot with Ubuntu. It seems very polished and it detected my 1920X1200 monitor and network without tweaking. I had assumed that choosing the "Run from RAM" option would give me a faster response than from the disk, but everything was very slow - particularly the package manager. I am reluctant to install it because of that - and the fact that it doesn't seem to offer the user much that's different from Ubuntu (forgive my ignorance if I've missed something blindingly obvious). For me it looks like a valid fall-back option if Ubuntu ever clags or goes under.

[rocknrolf77]

I ran into alot of problems with the package managment. At first I could not upgrade because both the gui and terminal refused to import the gpg keys. Somehow it suddenly worked. And not to mention the lousy gui's for package management. Synaptic is the best out there.

Then I had a lot of dependency hell. Never understood why they have to have so few packages in the repos. That is one of the reasons I always fall back on ubuntu and because of the great community and information :)

There was some nice features though, like selinux. And the boot screen looks pretty good. But it's so slow :cry: