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Fedora 17 Released

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-like-a-movie-title dept.

ekimd writes "Fedora 17 aka "Beefy Miracle" is released. Some of the major features include: ext4 with >16TB filesystems, dynamic firewall configuration, automatic multi-seat, and more. Major software updates include Gnome 3.4, GIMP 2.8, and GCC 4.7. The full feature list can be found here. Personally, I still find Gnome 3 to be an 'unholy mess' so I'm loving XFCE with Openbox."

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  1. Beefy Miracle by stevegee58 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good heavens, what an unfortunate name for a Linux release.

    1. Re:Beefy Miracle by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 5, Funny

      Good heavens, what an unfortunate name for a Linux release.

      You think that's bad, Ubuntu 13.04 is going to be called Rampant Rabbit.

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    2. Re:Beefy Miracle by MrHanky · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ubuntu 8.04 was a spoonerism for Hairy Hardon. Once someone pointed it out, it became practically impossible to remember the original.

    3. Re:Beefy Miracle by idontgno · · Score: 1, Funny

      What? That's the releasename?

      I think I got an email about that, but I thought it was herbal enlargement spam and deleted it.

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  2. Re:Beefy Miracle? by philip.paradis · · Score: 1, Funny

    don't treat me like a 7 year ago girl looking for a new cuddly toy

    And with that, I'm honestly afraid of the kind of replies you're apt (oh wait, they use yum... crap, that makes this worse) to get related to this release's codename.

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