Fedora 7 has been released. The release features GNOME 2.18, KDE 3.5.6, fast user switching, hotplugging of display devices, a new theme, kvm, the exprimental Nouveau driver, and much more. Read the release notes, and download or view screenshots.
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Member since:2005-07-26
In Fedora 7, yum does not download rpm headers anymore and depsolver is several times (I guess it was 7x) faster than the one in FC6. The slowdown is mainly caused by networking and the mirrors are obviously slow today. I think yum would seem faster if it could simultaneously connect to several mirrors, as apt does. Still, Yum is going to be faster in each subsequent release, because this is the main focus of development AFAIK, and also addition of yum-presto plugin which downloads delta-rpms for updates (these are binary "patches" or "diffs" to currently installed version) will save about 70%-95% MB of download. Yum-presto is already available in F7 and FC6 but not enabled by default because it needs more testing and official mirrors do not support it yet.
Member since:2006-03-06
Member since:2005-07-06
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I've got it installed now, and it seems nice (if a bit vanilla, as Fedora releases tend to be). I haven't tried out the display hotplugging, etc. yet, but I can tell you that the nouveau driver wasn't installed for my Nvidia card by default; I will drop it in manually after I poke around a bit, I guess. Yum is still slow, but that is to be expected...it does seem faster than it was on FC6 though, so kudos to the team for the improvement. I'll use it as my primary workstation for a while to see what I really think of it.