Today I replaced our CruiseControl install with Hudson. CruiseControl has served its purpose after doing its duty for 2.5 years with us. The reason for replacement was it got very flaky with builds and sometimes would just hang. Hudson has done 11 builds today with no glitches whatsoever.
Hudson was trivial to deploy and configure and it’s got a shiny UI. 
If you’re in search of a continuous integration system, FOSS is important to you (and it should be), checkout Hudson.
I installed Fedora 8 RC on Monday night. I chose to backup my homedir and do a fresh install of Fedora 8 instead of upgrading my Fedora Core 6 install. I went this route mostly because my Fedora Core 6 was an upgrade of Fedora Core 5 which was an upgrade of Fedora Core 5 Test 1,2,3 Figured it was time to get out any cruft that may have been lying around.
The install went fairly well. I chose virtualization during install, then chose not to install Xen. But something I clicked on caused Xen to get installed anyway making it the default kernel at first boot. A quick edit of grub.conf fixed that.
I then rsync’d my homedir back over and logged in. Some of the applets didn’t start because I had forgotten to install them. Not a big deal,that was my fault not Fedora’s.
The only real problem I ran into was trying to turn on “Desktop Effects”, with my copied over homedir, the window borders wouldn’t show up when Desktop Effects was enabled. But if I logged in as another user with freshly generated configs it worked. So I threw away my configs and recreated my homedir and logged in to have GNOME create the basic entries, VIOLA! Desktop Effects worked (for about 40 minutes then a hard lockup of X) 
I should’ve figured as much as my previous attempts resulted in the same behavior: try #1 and try #2.
Another little problem is with NetworkManager 0.7 and static ips. In FC6, NetworkManager worked GREAT with my static ip. But the one in Fedora 8 INSISTS on doing a dhcp request. I know I can do with out NetworkManager as I’m not using wireless, but I’m fond of the vpnc menu in NetworkManager.
So far no show stopper problems. Fedora 8 has beautiful artwork, a cool new GNOME vnc client, and online desktop.
Fedora is like a fine wine, it gets better with age.
Kudos to the Fedora members for a fine release.
