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Fedora 12 Released
AdamWill writes "The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 12 today. With all the latest open source software and major improvements to graphics support, networking, virtualization and more, Fedora 12 is one of the most exciting releases so far. You can download it here. There's a one-page guide to the new release for those in a hurry. The full release announcement has details on the major features, and the release notes contain comprehensive information on changes in this new release. Known issues are documented on the common bugs page."
That hasn't been my experience. I find Fedora does a lot less, and doesn't do it as well. The primary example of this is yum, which is a third rate program by comparision to apt. In fact, my personal opinion is that the success of Ubuntu has been down to properly maintained and comprehensive apt-repositories. When I left Fedora, yum had nothing in the same league as these, and dependency hell was very much still with the platform.
Fedora is a distro for admins who want ease of use, but not so much ease of use that they lose their jobs. They want the odd error or config mismatch so they need to directly intervene on occasion. So they won't go for debian or especially Ubuntu. On the other hand, they're not going to do all the legwork, so distros like slack or Gentoo are out of the question. Add in paid company support and "enterprise" editions, and you have the perfect distro for the in house admin of a medium to large business.
May the Maths Be with you!
Buy a new computer. Seriously. I've never had issues with yum being slow, unless a server is down or there's a DNS problem. Your comment is FUD. In fact any ubuntu / debian post on this thread is FUD. The title is Fedora 12, either discuss it or fuck off.