Fedora 14 Released and Reviewed — Advanced, and Not For Wimps 200
Several readers have sent word that Fedora 14, codenamed Laughlin, has been released. A brief listing of the major changes has been posted, and the download is available at the Fedora project's site. Reader jfruhlinger points out a quick review of the new version, saying, "Remember the days when being a Linux user was like being part of a select priesthood — arcane knowledge needed, but great rewards? Steven Vaughan-Nichols has tested out Fedora 14, and that was how it went. No Ubuntu-style handholding, but some powerful new features."
In Some Ways It Still Is (Score:5, Funny)
Remember the days when being a Linux user was like being part of a select priesthood ...
Oh, it still is like that in some respects [wikipedia.org].
Re:In Some Ways It Still Is (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, have you been celibate all this time?
They sent out a memo years ago saying geeks were allowed to get laid. Since at least Y2K as I recall we're been encouraged to go forth and get busy (I think that was the exact wording).
Man, you need to check your mail-slot more often. :-P
Re:In Some Ways It Still Is (Score:5, Funny)
Man, you need to check in to a female-slot more often. :-P
There, fixed that for you.
Re:In Some Ways It Still Is (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, have you been celibate all this time?
They sent out a memo years ago saying geeks were allowed to get laid. Since at least Y2K as I recall we're been encouraged to go forth and get busy (I think that was the exact wording).
Man, you need to check your mail-slot more often. :-P
Those who have stayed true to the faith will recognize this as false. Cast out gstoddart as he is unclean and shall surely lead us unto damnation!
Pray with me brothers! Pray that we may keep our hand built machines clean from this filth of lust and commercial software!
Our Stallman, that art in glibc, hallowed be thy code...
Re:In Some Ways It Still Is (Score:5, Funny)
Speaking of unclean and sure to lead us to damnation. ;-)
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Re:In Some Ways It Still Is (Score:5, Funny)
Speaking of unclean and sure to lead us to damnation. ;-)
Give us this day our daily garlic pizza, and deliver us from showering, amen.
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Cheetos?
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Man, you need to check your mail-slot more often. :-P
... We have mail slots?
Why couldn't they just send an email...
Re:In Some Ways It Still Is (Score:5, Insightful)
Check your spam folder. I think it was titled "Hot Russian Girls Await You".
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Some people get spam with a title like "Riga Girls Go Like This"
The genesis...
http://www.archive.org/download/weepies_2004-09-18_live_in_ohio.shnf/weepies_2004-09-18_live_in_ohio_24_introduction.ogg [archive.org]
the song:
http://www.archive.org/download/weepies_2004-09-18_live_in_ohio.shnf/weepies_2004-09-18_live_in_ohio_25_riga_girls.ogg [archive.org]
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BMO
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Dude, have you been celibate all this time?
They sent out a memo years ago saying geeks were allowed to get laid. Since at least Y2K as I recall we're been encouraged to go forth and get busy (I think that was the exact wording).
Man, you need to check your mail-slot more often. :-P
It doesn't count if it's your right hand.
Re:In Some Ways It Still Is - vintage?? (Score:4, Funny)
From TFA:
This 2008-vintage notebook is powered by a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
My server is powered by a Athlon64 3400+ you insensitive clod!
KDE (Score:5, Insightful)
I've always used KDE with RedHat/Fedora. He needs more friends that run Fedora.
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Re:KDE (Score:5, Interesting)
I thought the exact same thing. I've first used Fedora Core since 3 and almost immediately switched from GNOME to KDE. Especially now I would definitely take KDE 4.2+ over any version of GNOME.
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I started as a slackware guy, back in...well, I won't date myself. Then I built everything myself, in a linux-from-scratch style way. Then I moved to Gentoo for a while. Then, after I realized I wanted to get work done, stop farking around, and accept that I wasn't needing to prove something to someone (not by building my own "distro" at least) I moved to Fedora.
Somewhere along the way, I went with XFCE. I was one of those people who had used Gnome because it was so lightweight compared to CDE. I was s
KDE users usually run SUSE, historically (Score:2)
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Why do linux distros not utilize usenet? It would be nice if there were actually linux iso on it so I can actually say that I really do use it to download distros.
I get a better consistant speed on usenet than http or bittorent. More than twice as fast, infact
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It's solid. They've been releasing remixes and stuff done by others - so it's also worth checking out their site or facebook page.
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[...] The full distribution also includes the newest version of the KDE desktop, KDE 4.5.2, but I'll be darned if I ever met a Fedora user who used KDE. Fedora has long been known as the GNOME's user GNOME Linux of choice. [...]
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got proof? kubuntu is working just fine for me. openSUSE didn't fair so well though which is odd because it is often said to be "the" kde distro.
As far as I know fedora dont really make any changes to kde so you get a vanilla kde (the best sort).
Kubuntu shares a similar view, however they add their own userspace apps to help with certain tasks. I was never a (k)ubuntu fan but I cant argue with a system that "just works".
Wanker (Score:5, Informative)
Reading the comments to that blog shows he reviewed a Beta, not the release. Every single bug he said he ran into had been fixed before the release.
Re:Wanker (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah, I saw that too. And then he ends the review with "they need more quality assurance". Apparently someone doesn't know what the term "beta" means.
Re:Wanker (Score:5, Funny)
I'll tell you what it means:
You've obviously never shipped code. ;-)
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Funny but I remember when we did alpha, beta, and Gamma releases.
Alpha was internal testing only.
Beta was testing outside the company.
Gamma was feature and UI complete only bug fixes.
Then you did release.
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Must have been especially tedious with all the punchcards involved.
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Beta (noun): Greek letter used to denote the last build of software before management decides to ship the product anyway.
Hm. I always thought that's called a "prototype". ~
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Apparently someone doesn't know what the term "beta" means.
Very few people do anymore, what with Google releasing all of their products with the "Beta" label and never, ever releasing a production version of anything ;)
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Apparently someone doesn't know what the term "beta" means.
Very few people do anymore, what with Google releasing all of their products with the "Beta" label and never, ever releasing a production version of anything ;)
IIRC, Google's definition of beta is "not showing a profit"
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Re:Wanker (Score:5, Informative)
The only indication that it is beta is that he released his review before Fedora 14 was actually released! First paragraph:
That's not to say that the newest version of Fedora, Fedora 14 Laughlin, is hard to use. It's not. But, if you need a lot of handholding as you explore Linux, I think you'll be better off with Ubuntu.
Though later he says:
There is a fix on the way for this problem, but it still wasn't in the late beta software I was trying out.
The tags at the top do not mention it as beta, nor does the title. That is far from being genuine... I think this article is pure trash personally. I saw it yesterday in the /. firehose where it belonged. I can not believe it made the front page. Running around installing the latest linux distro (pre-release at that!) in a virtual machine is not news worthy and makes for junk journalism.
Re:Wanker (Score:4, Informative)
Yeah, I've been there and I don't particularly want to go back.
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It's OK, XKCD [xkcd.com] loves you.
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Actually, they were not fixed in the RC. Sorry, they weren't.
Re:Wanker (Score:4, Informative)
SJVN: Look at the bug reports I linked to: they have confirmations from multiple reporters that the bugs are fixed. I've got two F14 systems and a couple of VMs here, I can run Brasero on any of them and it works fine, for instance. The only bug that you mentioned that isn't fixed, exactly, is the USB 3.0 problem: USB 3.0 support was actually disabled on purpose because if we turn it on it breaks suspend/resume, and that hasn't changed for final (contrary to what I wrote in my comment). We did, however, document workarounds on the Common Bugs page - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs#usb_3.0 [fedoraproject.org] .
You never replied to my comment that 'release candidate' is a tricky concept when it comes to Fedora, because we have 'release candidates' of the Alpha and the Beta as well as 'release candidates' of the final release. I also asked if you could post the filename and sha256sum of the images you tested so I could confirm exactly what it is you were testing, but you didn't reply to that, either.
It's possible that you really are testing the final release and you're seeing bugs that look exactly the same as bugs that other people saw in the Beta and subsequently confirmed were fixed but are in fact *different* bugs, I guess, but it seems unlikely, and there's no way to tell for sure unless you let us know exactly what images you tested.
hmmmm (Score:3, Insightful)
"Remember the days when being a Linux user was like being part of a select priesthood"
Yeah, i do, and that's why linux is having a hard time converting people because most of the community is desperately trying to keep it that way. And before you call me a windows fanboy, I run it all, win7, mac, several flavors of linux.
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Re:hmmmm (Score:5, Funny)
I run it all, win7, mac, several flavors of linux.
Watch it polytheist, the Solders of the One will mod bomb you.
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I don't know if you misspelled "Soldiers", but "Solders" is actually way funnier. Well done.
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So? I can make the same claim.
Running both Windows 7 and MacOS gives me a lot of appreciation for what the Linux development community has accomplished.
Having played with the competition, I have no interest in it.
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> Yeah, i do, and that's why linux is having a hard time converting people
> because most of the community is desperately trying to keep it that way.
> And before you call me a windows fanboy, I run it all, win7, mac, several
> flavors of linux.
"Most of the community" is doing nothing of the sort.
The biggest problem people have is getting over the idea that they actually have a choice.
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It was also when only the brave would try to do real work with it. Cutting edge is okay to play with at home. I will take Centos or Ubuntu Server for production systems thank you.
Fedora is for the brave of heart and abundance of free time.
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Who is trying to keep it that way?
A lot of effort has gone into making Linux user friendly. I refuse to try and help friends who run Windows any more because it so damn hard to fix things, or even get things working. These days its Windows that needs config files edited or registry settings changed, while Linux (Mandriva at any rate) tends to be fairly easy to configure - for example to change the hosts file or MTU.
The last time I tried to install software on Windows, I carefully followed instruction for t
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Windows hasn't had to have config files or manual registry changes for any but the most obscure things for a long time. In fact, config files in Windows are very nearly deprecated. Whatever software you were installing (and which never gets named in posts like these for some reason), I doubt it was anything remotely mainstream, because the installers have been solid for years now. Even the transition to 64-bit Windows hosts has gone much more easily than planned.
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It's like jailbreaking an iPhone but without the jailbreaking part...
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Yeah, anyone who is upset at how "dumbed down" something like Ubuntu is, actually is showing how dumb they are.. though to be honest I've stopped really needing to do much tweaking in Ubuntu since the 2009 releases. Pretty much everything I want is in the repositories, down to every last Perl module..
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Yeah, anyone who is upset at how "dumbed down" something like Ubuntu is, actually is showing how dumb they are..
Like how due to pressure from ubuntu users xorg disabled the ZAP functionality (ctrl-alt-backspace) by default? Then when the rare occasion where it was needed happened it was useless.
Nobody gives two hoots if they make it easier until by trying to cater to some noob thing they make it harder for the people who actually know what they are doing.
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I'm a fedora user, ubuntu got xorg to make the change to the defaults so all distros were affected.
I just change my xorg.conf, but still, one more thing to do because of retarded noobs having too much influence.
Authentication (Score:2)
I wish they would just stick with an authentication provider.
Ignore link Steven Vaughan reviewed the BETA!!! (Score:3, Informative)
He reviewed the Beta version of F14!!! for crying out loud!!! Really thought that Slashdot was more responsible than this.
Review was BS (Score:3, Informative)
It is a review of the Beta release, (Score:2)
not the final release of Fedora 14. Fedora is still an excellent KDE distro, despite the fact that RedHat is a strong Gnome supporter.
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Regards
Windows Logo on New Fedoraproject.org Site (Score:3, Informative)
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hmm. green, orange, red, blue - correct
But Fedora is friendly rounded hippie shapes like guitar pics, Windows uses harsh, wavy squares like shards of glass. See the difference?
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They are not in the same shades as the windows logo, they are only the same "color" on a loose assessment.
For very loose values of "like the Windows icon". They are four icons that could (as could any four icons) be placed in a 2x2 grid, but if you do that, it won't look like the Windows icon, because the four icons on the same shapes as th
Re:Windows Logo on New Fedoraproject.org Site (Score:5, Interesting)
Okay, fine -- I'll post to undo the moderation.
It's four colors, but they're four completely different colors in completely different shapes. The MS Windows logo has red-orange, green, blue, and yellow, in different window-pane-like configurations depending on version. (In older versions, the orange was more red, and the blue and green were darker -- clearly the four perceptual primary colors.)
The Fedora glyphs are a navy blue, a magenta-tinged pink, definitely orange, and bright green. They're decidedly off-primary, and not in the same way that the Windows 7 and other recent MS logos are.
If you think I'm being pedantic, look at them actually side-by-side and you'll see that the comparison is ridiculous.
Surprisingly, Microsoft doesn't actually own the concept of using four colors for a logo. It reminds me of this silliness [labnol.org]. So yeah, I thought you were trolling. And I'll give you a half apology, because even if you weren't trolling, it's pretty silly.
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I wonder how the colors would compare for someone who is color-blind.
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I honestly was not trying to create something that was not there. I passively looked at the glyphs, noticed the colors, noticed the shapes and how they fit together, and my brain popped out: Windows Logo.
Not exactly the same shape, not exactly the same shade, but pattern recognition kicked in and that's what I got. Microsoft uses this general theme with different shapes for the Office logo and other MS products. The point of a logo is recognition. Without mal
The bad old days (Score:3, Interesting)
"Remember the days when being a Linux user was like being part of a select priesthood — arcane knowledge needed, but great rewards? Steven Vaughan-Nichols has tested out Fedora 14, and that was how it went. No Ubuntu-style handholding, but some powerful new features."
Thankfully, I missed those days (in general) until I started playing with LXDE & E17. In fact, the main reason I use a ubuntu derivative now over Fedora is that it worked with a minimum of fuss. As a newbie, I was HAPPY for the handholding.
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Re:The bad old days (Score:5, Interesting)
Well, it's like changing a tire, writing your own interrupt handlers, or hand-optimizing memory usage.
It's something everybody should do at least once in their life so they understand the process. And, once you've done it, you will never want to do it again. Those who sidestep the process never really understand and live in fear of it.
Those who understand the process know what it's all about, and just mostly call AAA, install Ubuntu, or add more memory thereafter -- secure in the knowledge that if they really had to, they could probably muddle their way through it. But, in reality, it's a task best left for someone else and is mostly a waste of time. ;-)
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Well, it's like changing a tire, writing your own interrupt handlers, or hand-optimizing memory usage.
It's something everybody should do at least once in their life so they understand the process. And, once you've done it, you will never want to do it again.
It's not at all clear to me why everyone should compile a kernel at least once. Yes, I can do it if necessary but I see no reason why, especially with all the Linux evangelists trying to get it on every desktop, they feel the average Joe should ever know what compiling is let alone have to do it to an entire OS. You use a fork everyday but is really beneficial to know how to forge one? You write or print on paper regularly but should you have to know how to fell a tree and turn it into wood pulp? It seems r
Re:The bad old days (Score:4, Insightful)
Because, the notion that it's a task that is (or should be) reserved only for the tech wizards is intellectually offensive.
One of my university profs (to whom I owe a great debt of gratitude) had very strong ideas about learning to do such things for yourself, and as a result, understanding more of the context and scope of it. You learn a lot more, and you remember it for longer -- it's not some random fact to be forgotten, it's something that you've internalized and that means something. As a result, when I wrote a microkernel as part of my OS theory class, I really got to understand how an OS works from the bare metal up. Have I done it since? Nope. Not at all. Am I grateful for having done it? Youbetcherass.
I'm not saying that literally everyone should compile a kernel -- my mother, for instance, not so much. But, in terms of demystifying the process, I think it's a valuable thing to learn.
I remember several years ago when my father (at the time in his late 60's, and a computer n00b) came to the conclusion he needed to install a printer driver. The chain of thought to arrive at the conclusion that there is a) such thing as a printer driver, b) you need one to make your printer work, and c) determining the steps to install a printer driver is quite impressive. It represents grasping several concepts before you can even move onto trying to find a solution -- but, in the end, he understood what drivers did (broadly), why we need them, and how to install one.
If you just threw up your hands and said "zomg, that's just way too complicated and therefore beyond me", you're going to curl up in a ball the first time things get difficult.
So, yes, if you consider yourself more than a Linux hobbyist, and just want to give yourself a little more in-depth understanding ... compile a kernel. Break your machine like the rest of us have. Panic. Fix it. At the very least, it demystifies the process ... and on the other hand, forces you to understand at least at a high level that there are such things as kernels and drivers, but that it's not some arcane magic.
Now, get off my damned lawn and go compile a kernel or something. ;-)
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It's something everybody should do at least once in their life so they understand the process.
I'm a little confused. What aspect of the process requires understanding?
Compiling a kernel is: /boot /boot/grub/grub.conf
- make menuconfig
- make && make modules_install
- mv bzImage
- emacs
Maybe I'm just jaded, but I'm missing how this is enlightening and/or instructive. Why is it useful for people to know these steps?
Re:The bad old days (Score:5, Interesting)
IME, there are three sorts of Linux users.
The Newbie - uses Ubuntu or something similar - doesn't want to compile anything, just wants something other than Windows with the minimum extra effort.
If you go back in time to before Ubuntu existed, this sort of person was very rare and often graduated to "enthusiast" level quite quickly.
The Enthusiast - uses the unstable, beta stream of a well-known distribution or Gentoo, happy to compile whatever's necessary and will put up with a hell of a lot. For most outsiders, watching these people is like seeing someone in an abusive relationship. You know it doesn't have to be like that, you know they're setting themselves up for punishment but the only person who can pull them out of it is themselves.
The Professional - uses Debian, CentOS or RHEL. Has no intention of wasting time compiling stuff, and wants to be able to get as many packages as possible without any compiling. Is not afraid of compiling if strictly necessary. May have a need to run commercial package(s) which are only supported on these distributions. Usually reached this point having come from some other Unix or bubbled up from the Enthusiast.
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Well, to be fair there are exceptions to every rule - everyone everywhere in the world would agree with me on that one!
I neglected an extra in the "Professional" category, BTW, which I realised as soon as I posted - an IT professional who uses Linux on their desktop as a general working environment - almost invariably chooses Ubuntu AFAICT.
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I started on Slackware (7.1), graduated to Gentoo, and now use a mix of Slackware, Gentoo, Ubuntu and Debian machines. They all have their advantages. I like Gentoo on servers because you can make it as streamlined as you want. I like Ubuntu on laptops because wireless just works and my laptops are just tools. I'll always have a soft spot for Slack because it was a great way to learn Linux, but I like the fact that with Ubuntu/Debian/Gentoo, I don't have to keep reinstalling th
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You're missing a category: People who were enthusiasts for a lot of years and got burned out trying to keep their computers running. I run Ubuntu now.
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I went from debian to gentoo to ubuntu to osx and now back to ubuntu.
What am I?
Re:The bad old days (Score:5, Funny)
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Almost every professional I know uses Ubuntu or OSX on the desktop. Only a masochist would willing run Debian stable, CEntOS, or RHEL for that purpose. I personally run Fedora because I've been with Redhat since 1995 and I think Ubuntu looks like pig vomit out of the box. I bubbled up from DEC ULTRIX.
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My first Linux was Linux for Playstation 2. Had seen all the submissions/comments about Linux and thought that getting the Linux kit for the PS2 would be an interesting learning experience and add some functionality to the thing. I'm not a developer or programmer, just a user and I had Sony's wacky Kondara-ized Red Hat useful within a day. Being a MIPS platfrom I could forget having packages of stuff outside of the installed stuff ready to use so I had to compile everything. My first compile was either
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I started dual-booting DOS/Linux several years before Fedora Core 1 came out, with RedHat. Back then, the only way to upgrade your kernel was to download the source on Dial-Up, compile it, install it and edit LILO to reflect it. It wasn't that hard, actually, although as time went on, there were more and more options to select when you configured the makefile. Now, you simply let yum, apt-get or whatever package manager your distro
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As a newbie, I was HAPPY for the handholding.
This gets repeated a lot, and I wish people were more specific about it. The perception seems to be that Ubuntu is easier to use in all aspects, or in general, and I find that not to be the case. Most of the hardware detection and setup tech that makes Ubuntu easy to use was developed in Fedora-land and appeared there first. In general, Fedora has tended to be easier to use.
Ubuntu, however, makes it easier to get proprietary video drivers and multimedia codecs. For that specific part of setup, Ubuntu is
arcane knowledge needed, but great rewards? (Score:5, Insightful)
Sure, I remember those days. Now that I use Linux for real work, with live production servers, and not just screwing around in my bedroom I don't have time for that nonsense. I greatly prefer the more common state of things where the mostly automated configuration is probably pretty close to what I need, but I still have the option to make use of that arcane knowledge to tweak things if I need/want to.
Don't get me wrong, that kind of distro still has its place in the world, but it shouldn't be the standard way of things.
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Something like MythTV is very handy in the bedroom when you are "screwing around". It's a great way to set the mood. Then again, any HTPC setup is.
Terrible review (Score:5, Insightful)
Half the article describes his test laptop and the theme he used. Then he didn't get USB3 to work, and suggested you overwrite your modules file (hint: use 2 > characters, not one). Then he complained about the CD burning program. Who burns CDs anymore?
Nothing about SELinux, nothing about filesystems, nothing about updated packages like SSH, Postfix, Bind, or anything.
a better article summary: "Beta Fedora makes a weak desktop, and I didn't bother to try any of the cool features of Linux"
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Technically, he suggested that you overwrite your xhci.conf file, not your modules file. Do you know for a fact that it's incorrect advice to solve the problem he's experienced? Sometimes you *do* want to overwrite the file rather than appending.
If no one burns CDs anymore, then it seems that they should omit Brasero entirely, rather than including a version that crashes.
In any case, since you asked, I still burn CD's and DVD's from time to time. My car stereo doesn't have an aux jack or USB port so CD-ROM
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/etc/modprobe.d is a typical example of the neat system of config snippets: *any* file in it with the extension .conf is parsed assuming the same format and purpose as /etc/modprobe.conf . /etc/modprobe.d/xhci.conf is not part of any Fedora package or any upstream codebase, it's just a convenient filename to stick in /etc/modprobe.d for this purpose. Which is the reason for the use of > rather than >> , though I suppose >> would have worked just as well.
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Nothing about SELinux, nothing about filesystems, nothing about updated packages like SSH, Postfix, Bind, or anything.
Maybe because most of those things are relatively stable, common to various Linux distributions, and have nothing to do with the desktop user experience.
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Another great release (Score:4, Insightful)
Can we get over the quality of the review and celebrate the release of Fedora 14, already? I've been running it since the beta release, and I'm very happy with it. Fedora 14 is another great release by a group of people who are dedicated to Free Software!
virtualbox (Score:3, Informative)
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AKA not polished, not ready for prime time, and definitely not for your grandma (unless she is a script-granny).
You know, Id like to meet this "Script0Granny" you speak of. That sounds like an interesting old bitty.
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Her name was Rear Admiral Grace Hopper [wikipedia.org], and I bet she's still giving them hell someplace. =)
There have been others, I'm sure. But none quite like her.
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I've always thought of Fedora as the beta version of the Linux you use when you need to pay for Oracle support.
I've never expected it to be the Redhat's answer to Ubuntu. Dunno if that's reasonable or not.
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It wasn't that long ago that RedHat WAS the "distro for the masses"
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"Ubuntu is more aimed at polished experience for the end user in terms of QA prior to the release. Fedora developers however rely on early user reports after the release."
This is not true.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Desktop_validation_testing [fedoraproject.org]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Installation_validation_testing [fedoraproject.org]