Fedora 8 has been released. It sports a new look and feel, a codec installation program, the first signs of the GNOME online desktop, various security improvements, support for Compiz and Compiz-Fusion, Java support via Iced-Tea, and much more. Get it from the download page. Update: A couple of articles about the release: 1, 2, 3. Update II: One more: 4. 
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Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-10-02
1) I'm not taking a jab at anyone.
2) "Enabled by default" is irrelevant and has nothing to do with this. The only thing that matters is whether or not it is available. Besides that, not all distributions have a default configuration 
3) I read the news carefully, and it is news. But dissing other distributions despite them having the same packages installed (by default or as dependencies for other packages) for longer than Fedora simply isn't acceptable.
4) I have nothing against Fedora users, but I do have something against people dissing other people. So, don't do that.
I've been a Fedora user for long long time too (and Redhat Linux 6 thru 9 before FC2). It's also a long long time since I jumped to another (and more bleeding edge as well as stable) distribution.
All I wrote was that people shouldn't hype what the rest of us already have. Nothing wrong about that wish.
Member since:2005-07-06
So from now on we'll judge a distro based on what it has enabled by default ? Yeah, I'm going too far, still, I'm not willing to do that. Availability counts more than enable-ity. Giving the credit for pulseaudio development is one thing, saying a distro is better because it has it by default, is another. For the average users, it won't matter if it's there or not, since they don't know what it is anyway. For us here, the news is that it's in a better state of development, and that it's available, the rest well, chitchat.
Member since:2007-02-17
Yep. Teh first packages I saw of Pulse was in Ubuntu. Up until recently what was missing was the flash support and xine support. Luckily this has been resolved and is pretty easy to find and configure the correct packages. i'm hoping that pulse becomes the defacto sound server since it has many promising features coming down the line.
Member since:2006-01-17
The biggest problem seems to get some proprietary apps to work on Pulse. In some cases it's possible to use OSS/alsa wrappers, but few important apps (Realplayer, some Skype versions..) still refuse to work (pasuspender is a last resort for those).
So it's good that RH is pushing this as default. It will force them to either support PA or make their applications work with the emulation.
I have been using it happily since 7.04 Ubuntu (0.9.6). ESD emulation refuses to work, but otherwise I enjoy added functionallity (still with minor annoyances like latency while changing volume, etc.).
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2005-10-02
pulseaudio isn't unique for Fedora. It's everywhere you know. It would be more correct to say: "Finally, even Fedora has it now".
It's great to see people show enthusiasm about their distro of choice, but don't hype what the rest of us has had for a long time