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Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released
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."
Why would any project choose a codename that brings to mind anal wind? It makes Fedora sound just as bad as the day after eating bean soup with anchovies in it.
Smells pretty shitty to me...
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To be more like Vista. Seriously that's the reason it's so hated here, the DRM isn't a real issue, the real issue is that the UI is just far less powerfull than its predecessor for the sake of simplicity.
Like it or hate it that's the way UIs are going right now... but I'm with you: hate it.
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.
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
It comes with Emacs and VI too. Who really cares about another editor (NetBeans).
I see you've dropped your pants and are presenting your bung hole to your Red Hat masters!
Yeah well, it is Fedora - what did you expect? If you want an easy to use Linux, then Fedora should be close to the bottom of the list, between Gentoo and Slackware.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
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