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Fedora 10 Released

Posted by timothy on from the looks-all-around-nice dept.

ekimd writes "Fedora 10, aka 'Cambridge,' was released today. Some of the major features include: 'wireless connection sharing enables ad hoc network sharing, better setup and use of printers through improved management tools, virtualization storage provisioning for local and remote connections now simplified, SecTool is a new security audit and intrusion detection system.' Versions of major software include: Gnome 2.24, Eclipse 3.4 and RPM 4.6. A features list can be found here." Reader Nate2 suggests LinuxFormat's detailed look at the new release, and adds a few more details about the software it contains: the release includes "a new graphical boot-up sequence, OpenOffice.org 3, many improvements to sound support via PulseAudio and other updates."

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  1. But does it run on .... shit that does not work... by ACK!! · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The improved sound support is welcome. I just feel that my previous experience with yum was that it was clunky on older hardware and a bit slow next to Synaptic and apt-get on the same machine. Slicking up the interfaces is nice and the inclusion of OpenOffice 3 is very cool though. Good luck Fedora maybe I will try them out instead of Ubuntu next time I decide to upgrade my OS.

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  2. The big question is. by LWATCDR · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does it come with easy access to the "restricted" repositories?
    That is the thing that makes Ubuntu so easy. You just take a check mark off the evil restricted repositories and you can download all those evil codecs that let you play video on your Linux box.
    Oh and those evil closed source video drivers as well.

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  3. Warning: I is a n00b by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I remember having fun installing Fedora 9 on my PS3. I'd never used linux before (I know, I know, I'll hand in my geek card at the next meeting...) and I figured it'd be more interesting to get a distro NOT designed for the PS3 to run properly than one that was (Such as YDL).

    But for those "in the know", would this distro feature any changes/improvements with regards to the PS3? Or is it still "unofficially" supported and thus will be about the same?

  4. Distro comparison? by tjstork · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is there a web site that compares distros? I look at the release list for FC10 and I don't see much compared to how Ubuntu is, but there is a lot of techy stuff under the hood also on that list that causes me to wonder what is good "inside" of Ubuntu, versus FC10.

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  5. Happy anniversary Fedora !! by messner_007 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am using Fedora from the first version on ...

    I have a server, that still runs Fedora core 1:

    [messner@Server messner]$ cat /etc/*-release
    Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)
    Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)
    [messner@Server messner]$ date
    Tue Nov 25 18:16:34 CET 2008

    I will shut it down this month .... now it can go to rest ....

    Sometimes Fedora wasn't so polished as it should be, the first versions were very problematic, documentation and community were scarce ... sometimes it was hardly usable for me, because I am not an expert.

    But it got better and better with each release. Number 9 was excellent, first class ... I think number 7 was the first one, that really rocked, but No. 9 rocks ...

    I am downloading number 10 now. I know it will be good. It is getting better and better with each release.