On Wednesday 26 March 2008 22:18:54 Will Woods wrote:
Fedora 9 will have a lot of new and exciting things. Naturally, we want those things to be stable and well-polished for the final release.
With that in mind, here's a list of things that deserve especially close attention.
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- NetworkManager
At long last, NetworkManager is installed and enabled by default for all new installs. It is *supposed* to play nice with the system configuration set up by Anaconda and the old system-config-network tool.
I'd recommend that all testers install and enable NetworkManager if possible. File bugs about network configuration problems (not honoring static IP configurations, for instance) against "NetworkManager".
Fresh install of F9-Beta with static IP address. NetworkManagerDispatcher runs on firstboot and overwrites the resolv.conf file. Also the static network data from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 is not being honoured. It gets a 169.xx adddress.
If there's any other things that people think need closer attention.. now would be a good time to mention them.
Happy testing!
-w
[1] https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-March/msg00710.html