Plainly
While the cow was spherical, it was clearly not frictionless.
First, I think
The latest version of the popular Fedora Linux distribution has finally been released, just one week later than the already-delayed ship date that was announced in November. Fedora 18, codenamed "Spherical Cow" by its developers, was originally due to arrive on November 6, but a number of thorny problems caused the final …
> Long-delayed Fedora Linux 18 arrives at last
Hell yeah. But this clearly is somehow connected to that psychologist's "Internet Causes Mania" warning, I can't put my finger on it though.
> On the minus side, the default desktop for Fedora 18 is GNOME 3.6
KDE spin, then! Although my liberal side is dismayed at all the good work on Gnome that will be of no use for me, my Hobbesian side rejoices.
I have toyed with Fedora a few times, but it is just too bleeding edge for my tastes.
Centos 6.3 on servers. (And some clients with Gnome 2) 5 year support FTW! 10 years at a push.
Ubuntu Mint or Mint Debian Edition with Mate or Cinnamon DE for most home users. I used to be a big Ubuntu fan, even an evangelist, but they fucked up big time with Unity for me. I personally stopped system upgrading at 10.04.
Fedora fans, strap yourselves in, and fill your boots!
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> toyed with Fedora a few times, but it is just too bleeding edge for my tastes.
I've found it's a really good get-out-of-jail-free disty.
I carry a bootable F14 stick. It's stable enough , boots on just about anything, and there are plenty of goodies not available in the RHEL or EPEL repos.
Vic.
CEO: "OMG! The market just doesn't take us SERIOUS!!"
Dir of Marketing: "I know what we should do - let's call our next community release 'Spherical Cow'".
CEO: "Yeah! All my BFF's are like totally into red meat this week. I'm going to text everyone right now..."
but on the 18 beta - played with a week or so ago - there were still significant differences between the Mint 14 Cinnamon and F18b Cinnamon desktops. I'm probably biased, but I feel that the Mint version is the more, um, complete, somehow experience. It's hard to put a finger on it, but Mint does feel a very well integrated desktop; things just work (with, for some reason, the slight problem that the video system wakes up with the backlight turned off!)
includes the alternative MATE and Cinnamon desktops...on the DVD I assume. there doesn't seem to be a live image using MATE. Mint and CentOS have been good enough for me depending on application. For desktops & portables Mint does seem to just work with more WiFi adapters. I'm still glad to see more features added to Fedora, but why can they keep up to date on drivers?
Blessed by Microsoft, locked kernel, this can't be good for what we call free and open source software.
Although it is a fine and modern distro, I strongly resent their decision to give up fighting against UEFI secure boot. By doing this, they legitimize Microsoft power grab on PC hardware with dire consequences for the few of us who would have preferred to be in control of their computer.
This is the first day of a sad new era.
Actually once I get to start the terminal, I'm no longer bothered by Gnome 3. Unless of course I need to open a second and a third terminal window and to conveniently switch from one to another. This is when Gnome 3 gets back its revenge on me for thinking I could ignore its presence. Damn it!
Always seems a "damned if you, do damned if you don't" situation re the delaying a release.
I'd rather something was a couple of weeks late if it removes some of the "bleeding edge" issues.
However I do think having a release every 6 months is just silly
I just got:
Fedora 16 will reach end of life on 2013-02-12, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 18, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 16 collection.
Which is great as I've just moved some machines from 16 to 17 earlier this year (bloody php 5.3.* to 5.4.* broke a couple of WordPresses).
Think Centos is the way for me.