OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19766/Two_More_Fedora_9_Reviews Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:34:23 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com lovely bleeding edge http://osnews.com/thread?315054 http://osnews.com/thread?315054 I especially like the opportunity to easily switch between the latest Gnome and KDE DE's. I was suprised with an usable KDE 4.0.

Many thanks to each and everyone who made this lovely bleeding edge gemstone possible. Wed, 21 May 2008 14:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments RE: lovely bleeding edge http://osnews.com/thread?315071 http://osnews.com/thread?315071 If you like the KDE 4 on Fedora 9 experience, you might also want to read

http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/05/14/fedora-9-and-the-road-to-k...

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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/ReleaseSummary Wed, 21 May 2008 15:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rahul) Comments Comment by moleskine http://osnews.com/thread?315090 http://osnews.com/thread?315090 I tried Fedora 8 not long ago and really liked "the Red Hat way" so I'm sure I'll be trying Fedora 9 soon, too. As someone else suggested, though, I rather wish they'd offer a not-quite-bleeding-edge spin as well as the very latest beta stuff. From what I've read of the reviews, usability does take a hit (until some upstream or third-party packages have caught up, and for some of us the Livna/multimedia repo stuff too). One of the nice things about my current distro, Debian Testing, is that it works so well I don't even notice I'm using an OS any more.

A really good OS should be invisible, imho, and if it isn't then a rough edge is sticking out somewhere. On Linux, the rough edges tend to be beta stuff or poor user interfaces. On Windows, it's Microsoft telling you what you can or can't do 'cos, you know, we own you. The nice thing about the betaware is that it gets debugged soon enough. The other stuff needs a complete head transplant. I know which one I prefer. Wed, 21 May 2008 16:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moleskine) Comments invisible OS http://osnews.com/thread?315159 http://osnews.com/thread?315159 If an invisible OS is what you want maybe Fedora isn't quite what you're looking for.
Fedora might actually end up being the exact opposite of that. New things pop up all the time for you to toy with, new things show up in menu's, things get switched around sometimes, and yes bugs happen.

Then again you never know. I have less trouble with fedora than my XP machine. Wed, 21 May 2008 22:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bitterman) Comments Fedora 9 (the best so far) http://osnews.com/thread?315186 http://osnews.com/thread?315186 I have been using Red Hat since 6.0 Professional and I really had no clue back then to what I was doing with it other than I liked it.

I had Fedora 8 and it got wiped out and Fedora 9 installed with a Volume Group divided up separately and encrypted really cool. I finally understand SELinux and the concepts after my RHCE class, cert and LOTS of hours studying in my free time.

Upstart has taken the place of the old inittab structure, the firewall rules are different, tons of new graphical tools. It is just awesome, I have it on my work laptop now, other home machines and fixing to load up my workstation with it wiping off RHEL5.1...

Actually some of the features are in RHEL5.2 that was just released and I have downloaded the ISO images from RHN and getting ready for installation tomorrow.

FireFox 3 works like a dream, I have to say it gets better and better. RHEL6.0 will be light years ahead, I never thought a hobby could earn me a living....


:) Thu, 22 May 2008 02:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (RHCE07) Comments RE: Comment by moleskine http://osnews.com/thread?315190 http://osnews.com/thread?315190
As someone else suggested, though, I rather wish they'd offer a not-quite-bleeding-edge spin as well as the very latest beta stuff.


They do, it's called Fedora 8. Thu, 22 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sdodson) Comments RE[2]: Comment by moleskine http://osnews.com/thread?315234 http://osnews.com/thread?315234 Yes, I was waiting for someone to fall into that trap, as you've obligingly done. A better comparison would be to something like Debian Testing vs Unstable. Or, launch with stuff that is is slightly less bleeding edge, then release upgrades when the betas or RCs go gold and when third-party support has caught up. I do realize that the latest and greatest is one of the points of Fedora, but I'm looking at this from the angle of usability. It seems to be that there is now so much competition in the Linux world that poor usability will increasingly run the risk of being punished by the market. An example would be Firefox 3, also used by Ubuntu. Yes, nice to have, but if your favourite extensions haven't yet been issued for v3, perhaps not so nice to have.

The irony is that while Linux as a whole is becoming more and more complete and polished, the race between distros to stand out means that some are, in fact, becoming less polished and complete. Thu, 22 May 2008 11:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moleskine) Comments Thumbs down: http://osnews.com/thread?315587 http://osnews.com/thread?315587 I tested Fedora 9 for a few days. It is - being such a bleeding edge distribution - unstable (the best thing was the script abcde which brought my whole system to its knees ...). It is sluggish. It is very new and has all the bells and whistles of a very, very new distribution.

I'll stick to Debian Lenny that is - even in its testing stage - much more mature and stable than Fedora will ever be. But then Fedora is only the testbed for Red Hat enterprise distributions. Sun, 25 May 2008 21:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deb2006) Comments