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Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

Posted by timothy on from the well-this-one-isn't-debian-based dept.

BrianGKUAC writes "Fedora 9 has been released as of 10 AM Eastern Time this morning. Release notes can be found here. Some of the more interesting new features include a new package management system, which can be used as an alternative to pup and pirut, known as PackageKit. This release also includes GNOME 2.22 and/or KDE 4.0.3, and Firefox 3 beta 5. Overall, there are a lot of improvements worth looking at, and the Bittorrent seeds are already feeding the release fairly effectively."

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  1. Oh no, it's getting better! by bogaboga · · Score: 0, Troll

    My best feature is the slider to change font size "in real time". You move the slider and see the effects immediately. I love this. Your issue will be addressed in KDE 4.1, so be patient. In the meantime, submit those bug reports. KDE unlike the other environment, does not suck big time.

  2. Re:Not Fedora's Fault by dedazo · · Score: 0, Troll
    So what you're saying is that this OS is essentially worthless for normal users. Correct? And I suppose that's fine. Let's just not pretend Joe Windows can install this and be on his way, like he would with something like Ubuntu or Xandros.

    So what exactly is the point of Fedora then? To serve as a corporate desktop for companies that also use RHEL? As a toy for techies? Some sort of test bed for new RedHat technologies?

    --
    Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
  3. Re:Not Fedora's Fault by drunkahol · · Score: 0, Troll

    Stop stop STOP

    It's every person's right to do whatever they want (laws of the land not withstanding).

    If a user is not inclined to submit bug reports - fine. To call them an asshat for not doing so is poor at the VERY least.

    The vast majority of society are sheep. We will generally follow each other without complaint.

    The Linux community is not just made up of developers and testers. There are also a huge amount of USERS. These strange beasts merely USE systems and actually expect them to work. Shock horror. As someone who actively submits bug reports (although not as much recently I have to admit), I do not have the right to criticise anyone else for not joining in the community and putting in effort like I do. The development is not carried out solely by unpaid coders doing things for their own enjoyment any more. Corporate money is ploughed into Linux at every stage.

    Criticism should not be taken as an attack. It should all be taken constructively. That's part of how the community has to work. If there is a problem somewhere in the OS/distro/application, then that problem should be looked into - regardless of whether the user managed to submit a bug report.

    In short - stop whining about non-contributory users. They outnumber you, me, the developers, the testers, the artists, the translators etc by a huge margin. They're not going to convert to bug submitting do-gooders that you think we should all be. Telling them that they're all asshats - way to go. We'll grow the user base that way!

    Cheers

    Duncan