Architectures/ARM/Fedora 18 Beta

Fedora 18 ARM Beta

The Fedora ARM team is pleased to announce the Beta release of Fedora 18 for ARM processors. The Beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 18 for ARM, so only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of Fedora 18. We invite you to download and try out the Fedora 18 ARM Beta, making sure things that are important to you are working as intended. If you find a bug, please report it (https://bugzilla.redhat.com ensuring to select Hardware: arm) -- every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for the growing number of Fedora ARM users worldwide. Installable images and tar files are now available for download from:

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/18-Beta/Images/

What is included in the Beta release?

The Beta release includes prebuilt images for Versatile Express (QEMU), Trimslice, Pandaboard, Kirkwood, Beagleboard and Highbank hardware platforms. Prebuilt images can be written directly to SD Card, USB, or SATA drive and booted without any additional steps or configuration.

Release Notes

• These test images include the updates-testing repository enabled by default.

• Images were composed using tools in Fedora 17 due to continuing work on Fedora 18.

• When using the disk images the system will automatically reboot to repartition the root filesystem on first boot. This will expand the size of the root partition to use all available space on the device. To prevent this, delete the '.rootfs-repartition' flag in '/' or pass a kernel command line argument of 'nofsresize'.

• If your device is not listed in the supported images and you would like to offer your assistance please contact the Fedora ARM team.

• Feature List

• Common F18 Bugs

Contributing to Fedora ARM

Please join us on the IRC in #fedora-arm on Freenode or on our mailing list arm@lists.fedoraproject.org. For more information on common and known bugs or tips on how to report bugs please refer to the release notes:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

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