"The Fedora Project announces the first release of the Fedora Core 5 development cycle, available for the i386, x86_64, and PPC/PPC64 architectures." This first test release includes modular Xorg, GNOME 2.12, KDE 3.4.92, a Xen 3.0 snapshot, better OSS Java support, and much more. Download torrents here, .iso's here. Update: here are a few first impressions on this release, screenshots.
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Member since:2005-07-06
You mean moving KDE in Extras repository? I can hear Fedora KDE crying for outrage about that one. Fedora version just disables features such as transparency to avoid choking some of PC hardware (not all of them can support effect such as transparency without draining memory or cpu).
It is up to users to contribute to Fedora KDE instead of whining.
Member since:2005-07-08
I found your comments rather offensive. Firstly, it's long been known that Redhat has favoured Gnome (even sponsoring it and developers). This favouritism has been evident for a long, long, long while now, with Gnome being the default desktop, and KDE being butchered badly. Very badly. It's amazing to see the Gnome users quite happy with KDE being treated as a has been on distributions, but if any distributions make KDE the default, they're suddenly all up in arms! What gives?
As to your comments that it's up to the community, KDE packages are a lot easier to create from src than Gnome packages. If the Fedora developers can do that, then why do they do such a botched job of KDE? Next they'll be saying that you can't include KDE or QT since it's not a real "GPL" license and is therefore a 'forbidden item'.
I haven't used Redhat since RH 7.3 and truthfully told, they've lost the plot, and their offerings are far from being good. As long as Fedora/Redhat keeps going on it's "we really only care about Gnome" path, I won't use it, and I most certainly won't recommend it. In fact, I'll go out of my way to trash it. That's called user opinion :-) I'm not obliged to talk nice about things that I don't like (or that show no respect for myself as a user/consumer).
Dave
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Are there any plans to drop KDE or build two distros with different DEs on the same base, as Ubuntu have done? It would seem to make sense, especially if they want to reduce the number of disks.
KDE support seems to have been a token gesture for a while now. It would be great if the Fedora tema could fully focus on just one DE.