Fedora 14 Released and Reviewed — Advanced, and Not For Wimps

Several readers have sent word that Fedora 14, codenamed Laughlin, has been released. A brief listing of the major changes has been posted, and the download is available at the Fedora project's site. Reader jfruhlinger points out a quick review of the new version, saying, "Remember the days when being a Linux user was like being part of a select priesthood — arcane knowledge needed, but great rewards? Steven Vaughan-Nichols has tested out Fedora 14, and that was how it went. No Ubuntu-style handholding, but some powerful new features."

Comments

In Some Ways It Still Is

[eldavojohn]

Remember the days when being a Linux user was like being part of a select priesthood ...

Oh, it still is like that in some respects.

Re:In Some Ways It Still Is

[gstoddart]

"Remember the days when being a Linux user was like being part of a select priesthood ..."

Oh, it still is like that in some respects [wikipedia.org].

Dude, have you been celibate all this time?

They sent out a memo years ago saying geeks were allowed to get laid. Since at least Y2K as I recall we're been encouraged to go forth and get busy (I think that was the exact wording).

Man, you need to check your mail-slot more often. :-P

Re:In Some Ways It Still Is

[Anonymous Coward]

Man, you need to check in to a female-slot more often. :-P

There, fixed that for you.

Re:In Some Ways It Still Is

[H0p313ss]

"Remember the days when being a Linux user was like being part of a select priesthood ..."

Oh, it still is like that in some respects [wikipedia.org].

Dude, have you been celibate all this time?

They sent out a memo years ago saying geeks were allowed to get laid. Since at least Y2K as I recall we're been encouraged to go forth and get busy (I think that was the exact wording).

Man, you need to check your mail-slot more often. :-P

Those who have stayed true to the faith will recognize this as false. Cast out gstoddart as he is unclean and shall surely lead us unto damnation!

Pray with me brothers! Pray that we may keep our hand built machines clean from this filth of lust and commercial software!

Our Stallman, that art in glibc, hallowed be thy code...

Re:In Some Ways It Still Is

[gstoddart]

Our Stallman, that art in glibc, hallowed be thy code...

Speaking of unclean and sure to lead us to damnation. ;-)

Re:In Some Ways It Still Is

[syousef]

Our Stallman, that art in glibc, hallowed be thy code...

Speaking of unclean and sure to lead us to damnation. ;-)

Give us this day our daily garlic pizza, and deliver us from showering, amen.

I Question the Timing

[TechnoJoe]

Really? Today? US Election Day.

What secrets are we going to find in the code that we should have known about sooner? It looks like this is just another thing the politicians were trying to hold back so we didn't know about their shenanigans until it was too late.

Re:hmmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

You must be new here, Windows fanboy

Re:hmmmm

[Sponge Bath]

I run it all, win7, mac, several flavors of linux.

Watch it polytheist, the Solders of the One will mod bomb you.

Re:hmmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know if you misspelled "Soldiers", but "Solders" is actually way funnier. Well done.

Re:Wanker

[gstoddart]

Apparently someone doesn't know what the term "beta" means.

I'll tell you what it means:

Beta (noun): Greek letter used to denote the last build of software before management decides to ship the product anyway.

You've obviously never shipped code. ;-)

Re:In Some Ways It Still Is - vintage??

[miknix]

From TFA:

This 2008-vintage notebook is powered by a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor

My server is powered by a Athlon64 3400+ you insensitive clod!

Re:The bad old days

[shougyin]

bi-curious?