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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. Probabilistic distro by hamvil · · Score: 5, Funny

    You will not know if it will erase your disk until you try to boot it.

    1. Re:Probabilistic distro by theVarangian · · Score: 4, Funny

      You will not know if it will erase your disk until you try to boot it.

      It's more like:

      If the display on your Fedora19 box is in sleep mode and you know that the Fedora 19 kernel panics once a day because of a poorly written kernel module you cannot know whether it OS has panicked until you wake the display. Until then all you can do is calculate the probability that the kernel has panicked as the sleep time of the display approaches 24 hours. Thus your Fedora 19 box is both in a state of kernel panic and running normally at the same time until you wake the display and 'fix its state'. The interesting thing is what happens if you try to cheat by pinging your Fedora 19 box from your laptop. Assuming you have a perfect network connection you can only tell whether the system is up or not, you cannot tell whether it's lack of response is due to a kernel panic or a segfault in the network daemon. You can only calculate the probability of the lack of response being due to a panic since, on your badly broken Fedora 19 box, panics happen more frequently than segfaults in inetd do. So you get closer to inferring the state of your Fedora 19 box but you cannot be entirely sure by simply pinging it, you need more information but not so much that you fix the state.

  2. Re:You lost me at... by MancunianMaskMan · · Score: 4, Informative
    Gnome 3.8 comes with "Classic mode" which re-introduces features like the top-left App menu and the window switcher panel at the bottom of the screen, but built on Gnome3 technology.

    It's a bit like Windows 8.1 re-introducing the Start menu.

    Maybe one day we'll wake up and the Gnome shell and Windows 8 were all a bad dream.

  3. Re:You lost me at... by Ignacio · · Score: 4, Informative

    No one offers GNOME 2 because it's effectively dead. MATE is the replacement.

  4. Installer a little better than F18's by rklrkl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They've fixed a few annoyances in Anaconda in F19 Alpha including actually offering MATE as a desktop option (F18 never showed it in Anaconda - you had to know to groupinstall it later on). Still no package version numbers or install time remaining when the packages are being installed though - both blatantly obvious requirements!

    The Anaconda interface is still LUDICROUSLY SHOUTY (yes, much of it is fully capitalised and even adds bolding on top of that!) and the custom disk partitioning still needs further work. It has a nasty mixture of size units (yes, it's possible to see K, MB and GB all on the same screen) and the option - if it exists - to "use all remaining space on device" when creating a new partition (which you're surely almost always going to need?) didn't jump out at me.

  5. MariaBD by clemdoc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    MariaBD will replace MySQL
    After wikipedia (on *. yesterday) and of course my revered Slackware, MariaDB really seems to be getting traction.
    Maybe time to have a look...

  6. Re:You lost me at... by ssam · · Score: 4, Funny

    dear gnome 2 users. here is gnome 3.0. we have changed everything, and it wont run on you 3 year old laptop any more. hope you like it because it will be really hard to keep using gnome2 while keeping up to date with other packages.if you don't like it please just wait a few years and we'll bring back some of the old features as a classic mode. hey, where have you all gone?