Fedora 10 is out. This won’t be a review, dozens have already popped up across the interweb.
Seriously it is an awesome release, I have been running it since the beta release. Fedora has often been seen by many as a not a lot more than a preview release for redhat and a test bed for bleeding edge. But F10 is a solid and polished OS and a worthy install on any machine.
One bug I have encountered so far was on a VM install, the fonts were massive, fonts set to 6 seemed a little big. Turns out the display detection can’t correctly work out the DPI of my screen. If you have this problem simply create an ~/.Xdefaults, or edit the file if you already have one, and add this line:
Xft.dpi: 100
Restart X and the problem should go away, you may need to restart the font server as well. Then you can turn your fonts up to 11!
Wow déjà vu. So gnome-vfs is still brain dead. Of course NFS4 is going to be used at some point for home directories and need trash support. Why is the list of supported filesystems still hard-coded in a c file?
Follow the instructions from the previous post, modify them to say nfs4 instead of fuse.
Update: 13/11/2008
Patch file you can apply to the SRPM of gnome-vfs: gnome-vfs-2162-nfs4-trash.patch
My latest lab build is using nfs4 to mount home directories.
Kerberos authentication requires the time to synced before it will work. Redhat (CentOS) tries mounting Network filesystems before syncing the time on startup. Can anyone else see the problem?
If any of our lab machines have their time out by more than 5 minutes the mount will fail.
I have changed the startup priority of ntpd from 58 to 12, and this has fixed the problem.
As ntpd only requires networking to work, I cannot understand why it starts at 58, but problem solved.
Found this great article on doing triple boot without needing grub to boot windows.
http://www.anomalousanomaly.com/2008/10/31/triple-booting-your-mac/