Fedora 10 Released

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."

Comments

Warning: I is a n00b

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

Re:The big question is.

[guardia]

RPM Fusion is getting pretty darn good http://rpmfusion.org/ Just one RPM to install manually, and you can get all the "evil" stuff very easily... plus, haven't tested it yet, but the new hooks in Totem should make the process pretty much automatic.

Re:The big question is.

[mowall]

Does it come with easy access to the "restricted" repositories?

Well it's certainly easier now since all the "restricted" repositories are now in one place - RPM Fusion. So you just install the rpmfusion rpm and then you get access to all the goodies. Not too sure how this is presented GUI-wise though.

Breaking the law is always easy

[betterunixthanunix]

The fun thing about using Ubuntu is that Canonical does not have any concerns about the laws of the United States of America. Red Hat does, because unlike Canonical, Red Hat is an American corporation. Red Hat cannot ship any software that could violate patent or copyright law, and many of the codecs in the non-free repositories do violate those laws. If you do not like the consequences of those laws, then:

1. Let your congressman know that, unless he at least attempts to undo those laws, you will stop voting for him.
2. Join the campaign to repeal those laws
3. Use free codecs and demand that people send you media that is free-libre

Re:Enjoy the porn

[Random BedHead Ed]

I was hoping that by "porn" the AC parent meant "screenshots of the new OS." But that's not what AC meant: AC meant "porn." Whoever modded this NSFW link +1 Informative should never get mod points again.

Re:Distro comparison?

[Sir_Lewk]

Just a little pet peeve, but it's just F10, not FC10. ie, Fedora 10, not Fedora Core 10. The "Core" was dropped quite a while ago.

Re:2+GB rpm's?

[bubkus_jones]

My package is at least that big.

Oh come on, someone had to say it.

Re:Will it fix the most notorious Linux bug??

[Anonymous Coward]

There is been a bug in the Linux kernel that makes computers reboot every 47.9 days. This bug has been around for nearly 15 years!

I think you've misspelled "Windows NT" as "Linux".

I don't think that Linux can claim to be ready for the desktop (nor the server for that matter) until its development process is streamlined. As it is, the development priorities are set at the whims of one person.

I think you've misspelled "Windows" as "Linux".

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Linux violates 235 Microsoft patents.

I think you've misspelled "inspires" as "violates".

Re:But does it run on .... shit that does not work

[Pros_n_Cons]

How long ago was this "previous yum experience" the last several years have seen vast improvements in yum.

Problem is when Fedora first jumped off everyone tried it then formed an opinion based on 5 years ago. Most of these opinions spider across slashdot by people who haven't installed fedora since F2. When i was running Fedora a simple yum update command would finish in about 3-5 seconds. I'm also using a p4/2gb.

From the yum FAQ:
How is the speed of yum compared to APT-RPM?

yum automatically checks the repository every time you perform a command, except when run in shell mode, while APT only checks it when you run 'apt-get update' manually. This causes it to appear slower than it is. If you want yum to run from cache instead of checking the repositories, run 'yum -C '. See the man page for details.

yum now uses sqlite for its back-end database by default. This results in an edge in speed over older versions of yum. Beginning with Fedora Core 4, yum contains significant improvements that make it faster and more capable than older versions.

In general to posters. If you haven't installed an OS in 5 years would you mind not commenting on it unless you state when you used it. People out there get the impression nobody fixed yum when it was fixed 7-8 versions ago.