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Fedora 15 Released

Posted by Unknown on from the ooo-shiny-new-features dept.

halfline writes "Fedora 15 was released today. It features GNOME 3 (with its substantially redone UI) and the systemd init system by default." The release also brings the latest KDE and XFCE versions, improved Btrfs support, amd a switch from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice. Installation images are available from the usual sources.

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  1. Torrent by kai_hiwatari · · Score: 5, Informative

    The direct download was quite slow for me. Torrent was faster for me. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

    1. Re:Torrent by Homburg · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well of course. As you can see by reading Slashdot, all of us use torrents only for seeding Linux distributions, and nothing else.

  2. Re:Does it still crash all the time? by ZankerH · · Score: 3, Informative

    Protip: Fedora Core 4 was released almost 6 years ago. This is ancient history in free software development terms (unless you're HURD), and you should assume any experience you had with it is irrelevant to any modern GNU/Linux distro, Fedora included.

  3. Gnome 3 Shell by HRbnjR · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After half an hour with the Gnome 3 Shell I *really* want my old desktop back :(

    My initial impression is that all fundamental tasks, like launching apps, switching apps, switching desktops, etc, all take far more motions and/or clicks to accomplish than before. It appears as though all my app launchers have been pulled from their organized menus and dumped in a big messy pile I have to search through. And it doesn't look like I can customize the layout like I could before.

    Maybe it will grow on me, maybe I will learn and adapt (I'm trying to give the Gnome dev's the benefit of the doubt here), but as it stands after my initial half an hour, I *hate* it, and I don't think I'm going to be nearly alone?

  4. Just installed it and... by hey · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...I like it. The faster .drpm alone is worth it.

  5. Re:Does it still crash all the time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hi, I'm here from the Hurd anti-defamation league, and wanted to point out that while progress is slow, it's actually doing pretty well.

    It's doing so well, in fact, it's *almost* ready for noobs like yourself to try:

    http://www.archhurd.org/news/19/