Linked by Rahul on Sun 8th Feb 2009 04:45 UTC
Fedora 11 Alpha was released a couple of days back. Phoronix takes a quick look "While a few delays were experienced by the Red Hat engineers and community working on Fedora 11 (a.k.a. Leonidas), the first alpha release of this popular Linux distribution is now available. The 11th release of Fedora will bring a huge set of new features and updated packages, with much of the work already being visible in Fedora 11 Alpha." "Starting with the installation, Fedora 11 is now using the EXT4 file-system by default but there is support built into the Anaconda installer for Btrfs, which recently entered the mainline Linux kernel."
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RE: The Emperor's New Clothes
by Calipso on Mon 9th Feb 2009 14:08
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Member since:2007-03-13
This is ridiculous. Look at the features and tell me the difference between fedora 10 and 11 from a desktop users perspective. Or even between Fedora 7 and 11.
too sick right now to look for specifics but how about:
- bug fixes
- security fixes
- speed improvements both boot time and general use
- quicker file system and experimental file system for the brave
- new improved tools(security tools, selinux notifications, package management, volume control)
- new versions of software
- new sound system (pulseaudio)
- improved hardware support especially wireless
I know this is a very generic list but I'm sure someone has specific version numbers if it really matters to you.
[edit]
and this is rather fancy too:
Fedora 11 also provides a preview of MinGW, which is an environment for developers to cross-compile their programs to run on Windows but being built on Fedora.
(yes, developers are desktop users)
Edited 2009-02-09 14:11 UTC
RE: The Emperor's New Clothes
by Michael on Mon 9th Feb 2009 14:41
in reply to "The Emperor's New Clothes"
Member since:2005-07-01
Who said anything about a desktop user's perspective? Sure a desktop user may not be able to see the difference between ext3 and ext4 but it's a major new feature. But if you really want to know, just reading the feature list provided above, I get:
20 second boot up
Support for finger print readers
Support for hotplugging audio devices (i.e. plug in your headphones and the speakers will automatically mute)
OpenChange - natively access Microsoft Exchange
Improved power management for reduced power consumption
and, of course, KDE 4.2 which should be a very visible improvement
Member since:
2007-03-29
This is ridiculous. Look at the features and tell me the difference between fedora 10 and 11 from a desktop users perspective. Or even between Fedora 7 and 11.