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Fedora 12 Beta Released
AdamWill writes "The Fedora project has announced the release of Fedora 12 Beta, which is available here. This will be the final pre-release before the final release in November. New features of Fedora 12 highlighted in the announcement include substantial improvements and fixes to the major graphics drivers, including experimental 3D acceleration support for AMD Radeon r600+-based adapters; improved mobile broadband support and new Bluetooth PAN tethering support in NetworkManager; improved performance in the 32-bit releases; significant fixes and improvements to audio support, including easy Bluetooth audio support; initial implementation of completely open source Broadcom wireless networking via the openfwwf project; significant improvements to the Fedora virtualization stack; and easy access to the Moblin desktop environment and a preview of the new GNOME Shell interface for GNOME. Further details on the major new features of Fedora 12 can be found in the release announcement and feature list. Known issues are documented in the common bugs page."
Another piece of crap from Fedora.
I'm currently running an old Slackware release, and thought I'd upgrade to a more recently-released distro today. So I downloaded this beta to give it a try, and it has failed me.
It just wouldn't boot. So I downloaded the ISO image again, checksummed it (it passed), burned it to disc again, and tried to install once more. And again it failed.
I had a similar problem years ago with one of their earlier releases, on an entirely different system. It just wouldn't boot.
Frankly, I've had enough. Fedora is shit. I don't care what features they may have added, but if the installation disc doesn't even BOOT on my systems, then it's totally useless to me.
So I'm still on Slackware for now. Maybe I'll try Ubuntu instead. I hear they actually give half a damn about the quality of their releases.
Hundreds of times? Really? That would work out to multiple times per week, every week, for multiple years (or daily for at least several months).
You sure you're not just making shit up? Or do you just really like reinstalling over and over for no reason?
So are the peeps at Dead Rat.. Drepper and Pöttering springs to mind. Surely there's something to be said about a company that manages to attract the dredges of germany?
Actually I meant the entire lamp stack and I had never heard of yum it's not documented very well and the application yum is not exactly named "install-missing-software" is it. I went with windows XP and the wampserver installation. Works like a charm it installs itself and was trouble free.
Why bother
Ubuntu isn't a steaming pile of horseshit like Fedora is.
Don't change just to change. That's how we got Obama and see what a cluster fuck that is?
And the previous admin promised to worship the status quo, yet gave us an even bigger cluster-fsck.
Sorry, but this old anti-change rhetoric just don't cut it anymore... not after that last moron.