First Look At Fedora 11 Beta Release 205
Ars Technica has a first look at the latest beta release from the Fedora universe and it has several new shiny-bits including kernel modesetting, ext4, and faster boot times. "Fedora 11, which is codenamed Leonidas, is scheduled for final release at the end of May. It will include several new features and noteworthy improvements, such as RPM 4.7, which will reduce the memory consumption of complex package activity, tighter integration of PackageKit, faster boot time with a target goal of 20 seconds, and reduced power consumption thanks to a major tuning effort. This version of Fedora will ship with the latest version of many popular open source software programs, including GNOME 2.26, KDE 4.2, and Xfce 4.6. This will also be the first Fedora release — and possibly the first mainstream distro release — to use the new Ext4 filesystem by default.
Leonidas? Cue the "300" jokes in 3... 2... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Leonidas? Cue the "300" jokes in 3... 2... (Score:5, Funny)
THIS. IS. LINUX.
ext4? This is madness! (Score:3, Funny)
THIS IS FEDORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Oh yeah, well tonight, I in fact plan on dining in Hell.
Ext4? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Ext4? (Score:4, Funny)
Spartans! Prepare for data loss!
Re:Bad summary. (Score:3, Funny)
Brace yourself techno-vampire...
Re:Ext4? (Score:5, Funny)
Tonight we dine in /dev/null
Re:Finally Fedora? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm a long, long time RedHat user. (Since Red Hat Linux 5.1, if you're curious)
I suddenly feel very, very old.
Re:One question: (Score:1, Funny)
PulseAudio isn't even "bleeding edge" software, it's more "oh god that edge just went clean through my torso and cut me in half oh god there's blood everywhere I'm going to die".
Re:Ext4? (Score:1, Funny)
But why are they dining in purgatory that makes no sense.
Re:ext4? This is madness! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:One question: (Score:3, Funny)
It really sucked when most of the users could never have more than one application using audio simultaneously. Also controlling the devices could not be offered via unified user interface.
I solved that problem by installing a PCI sound card I found in the trash. It can cope with me forkbombing sox processes at it and it has a unified user interface - the three sound buttons on my keyboard that run aumix.
Compare this to Pulseaudio, which manages to combine the obtrusiveness of aRts, the unusability of a Gnome GUI, and the uselessness of a network server that sounds like trying to stream a wav file over 56k - on the rare occasions that it produces any result at all.
Re:Ext4? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Leonidas? Cue the "300" jokes in 3... 2... (Score:2, Funny)