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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."
Spent over an hour trying to get a USB Wifi device that I bought for its supposed Linux compatibility working.
Nobody mentioned that to get it working you would have to type pages sand pages of shit in to the command line.
Of course after going though all that bullshit I still couldn't get it to work.
Fuck Linux. I'm going back to Windows.
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.
Don't bother with Fedora. It still has bad hardware compatability (ie, no nVidia or ATI drivers) and a limited package repository unless you want to link together multiple incompatible third party repositories together.
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Just install Niggerbuntu and be done with it. The new Nappy Nigger release blows away Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Just don't leave it unattended or it will impregnate your daughter and sell your car stereo for crack money.
The release announcement is very unprofessional.
Since this release of Fedora will likely power RHEL 6, I was going to forward the release notice to my boss, to see if we could set up some evaluation servers. But then I saw how childish the announcement was, and felt too embarassed to promote Fedora.
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.