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Fedora 16, OpenSuse 12.1 Betas With Gnome 3.2

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 5, 2011 @05:32AM from the despite-gripes-it-gets-better dept.

Andy Smith writes "Fedora 16 beta and OpenSuse 12.1 beta have been released. For most users the major change in each distro is Gnome 3.2. Fedora also adopts the new Linux 3 kernel and the GRUB2 bootloader."

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Re:No grub 2 by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-05 06:12 · Score: 1, Informative

NIH syndrome. Lilo is BSD-licensed and the copyrights not owned by the GNU Project. This was unacceptable and a more complex and harder to use GPL version was needed.
Linux Mint Debian Edition LMDE is Gnome 2 by Forget4it · 2011-10-05 06:21 · Score: 3, Informative

LMDE is a good alternative maintained Linux that continues with the latest Gnome 2 not 3
http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

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Re:No grub 2 by diegocg · 2011-10-05 06:51 · Score: 3, Informative

No, LILO doesn't work fine. LILO always was incredibly unreliable, it needs to know the fixed location of the kernel inside the disk (if you move your kernel it stops working). I can't count the times my system stopped booting because of stupid things like that. GRUB in the other hand can read filesystems so it doesn't need to know where kernels are, only the stages are neccesary. Even if it fails to find a kernel it has an interactive editor where you can list the available files in the /boot directory, which is useful for recovery. Also, LILO doesn't support UEFI.