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Fedora 11 Is Now Available
rexx mainframe writes "Fedora 11 is now available on BitTorrent. Fedora 11 offers ext4, a 20-second startup, and the latest GNOME, KDE and XFCE releases. Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3's latest pre-releases are available as well. Fedora 11 features Presto, a yum plugin that reduces bandwidth consumption drastically by downloading only binary differences between updates. It also features Openchange for interoperability with Microsoft Exchange. There are new security enhancements, improved and upgraded development tools, and cutting-edge features in areas such as virtualization."
Geez, that 4.3 video makes it look horrible. It still has slow screen redraws and weird artifacts when moving windows. It also appears to be getting uglier and uglier as we painfully proceed along the KDE release trail. And I see that damn cashew in the corner (which everyone but a handful of KDE developers seem to hate) is still hanging in there. Frankly, vista looks a hell of a lot more polished and modern than that.
But Fedora is not exactly a cutting edge distro either.
I have to ask, are you retarded? The best thing about Fedora is that it is bleeding edge, course the worst thing about Fedora is that it is bleeding edge.
It's kernel updates are like a week behind kernel.org, Linus himself suggests the best way to test kernel releases and provide feedback is to use Fedora.
Red Hat and Fedora are providing the most updates to Linux, ubuntu's only contribution is naked pictures of boobies and a large collection of brown backgrounds that either say "ubuntu" or have a recycling rip off graphic.
If you want to push the limits of what OSS has to offer or you want to support a distribution that gives the most back to the OSS community; use Fedora on your home laptop or in a VM. If you want to run a supported Linux server, use RHEL/CentOS. If you are wet walking vagina, then ubuntu is for you.
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Oh, for frickin heck. Now we have to wait through ANOTHER Fedora cycle??? RHEL 6 is already years late. Sigh. Let's face it. RHEL 6 will be released a week after the world ends. RHEL is in its death throes. They're just spinning their wheels and making stinky tire smoke trying to get off the line. RHEL 5 is older than Moses and has moldier packages than a frickin mummy. This is just plain embarrassing.