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Fedora 19 Alpha Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the code-names-with-umlauts dept.

hypnosec writes "Following delays due to UEFI, the alpha version of Fedora 19 'Schrödinger's Cat' has been released. The alpha version brings with it all the features of Fedora 19, including the updated desktop options – GNOME 3.8, KDE Plasma 4.10 and MATE 1.6. Other new features include Developer's Assistant – a tool that would allow developers to code easily with ready templates, samples and more; OpenShift Origin – through which users will be able to deploy their own Platform-as-a-Service infrastructure; Ruby 2.0.0; Scratch; Syslinux – provides for simplified booting of Fedora; systemd Resource Control – which allows for modification of service settings without requiring a reboot; and Checkpoint & Restore. Downloads and release notes available at the Fedora Project site."

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  1. Re:You lost me at... by Lakitu · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, idiot. I've spent more time than it's worth doing that and the vast, vast majority of what it's revealed are:

    a) legitimate but ultimately insignificant bug reports which are not fundamental design flaws

    (the minority)

    or,
    b) people who literally have zero ability to differentiate their emotions from reality and yell and scream about how awful it is because it's different.

    While I understand the sentiment, I don't care at all. If it doesn't feel like windows 95, and you hate it, that's cool, but it doesn't make it bad.

    If that's not you, and your complaints center almost entirely around "it's buggy", I don't really understand the hate for it. It's certainly annoying, but buggy gui applications is a "this is the year of Linux on the desktop" thing for me -- completely expected. If it bothers you that much, why don't you just use xfce or something instead? Is the hate just because it changed and you don't want to keep using some old version of it?

    I mean, I get it. But I don't get it. I understand that people can be fucking retarded, but it's fucking retarded. Someone who uses gnome 2 on their ubuntu 9 install is incredibly angry that Fedora 19 now ships with gnome 3. Ok? Is there something I'm missing here?

    Judging from the time I've spent looking into it, and the general tone of responses whenever someone asks, the answer is apparently not.