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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. Re:Who cares about your taste? by slackware+3.6 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The KDE option is their for those that don't like Gnome3.
    Now I drive Dodge trucks so should I whine and bitch about Chevys and what an unholy mess their electrical systems are?
    And Timothy there are many different desktops if you don't know how to install a different DE use Ubuntu and STF up.

  2. Re:Besides the name and the Desktop... by Tynin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about BTRFS as boot device support? Any word on that?

    Considering I was able to in Fedora 16, I would assume so.

    mount | grep btrfs
    /dev/sda4 on / type btrfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,nospace_cache)
    /dev/sda2 on /boot type btrfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,nospace_cache)
    /dev/sda5 on /home type btrfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,nospace_cache)