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Fedora 28 Beta Linux Distro is Finally Here (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the for-the-testers dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Today, version 28 of the Fedora finally achieves beta status. After a short delay -- it was scheduled to be available a week earlier -- the distro is back on track, and looking better than ever. As is typical now, there are three versions of the operating system -- Atomic Host, Server, and Workstation. While all three have their places, normal desktop computer users will want to focus on Workstation. While there are plenty of new features (and bugs), the most exciting aspect of Fedora 28 Workstation is the inclusion of the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment.

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  1. Exciting? by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ”While there are plenty of new features (and bugs), the most exciting aspect of Fedora 28 Workstation is the inclusion of the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment.”

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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    1. Re:Exciting? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      The DNF system, the management of RPM's, has been twisted and destabilized by continuing to use "Recommands" to try and outsmart the system admin.It's a backwards incompatible change and breaks many RPM's for recompilation to older operating systems. I'm afraid that dnf is suffering the same creeping featuritis that systemd suffers from.

      The switch to python 3 as the default is also in progress, which is a good idea but is destabilizing a lot of stable, older python programs which are not python 3 compatible.

    2. Re:Exciting? by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The switch to python 3 as the default is also in progress, which is a good idea but is destabilizing a lot of stable, older python programs which are not python 3 compatible.

      Do we need to give them another decade to get Python 3 compatibility in place? I could see how just ten short years to make these changes might be rushing things a bit.

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    3. Re:Exciting? by Eravnrekaree · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Not having backward compatability with yourself does not inspire confidence in a language. There is really no excuse for it. Why not just have a python 2 compiler that compiles for the Python 3 VM. There is really no excuse for not having backward compatability and for a fork for 3.

  2. What a crap article by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 4, Informative

    Release announcement.

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  3. Exciting gnome .. by aliquis · · Score: 2

    Yeah.. gnome.. 3 .. .28. Exciting.

    Window managers got much less exciting when they tried to look like Windows 95.

    KDE 3 seemed somewhat exciting and I haven't used either for long so I shouldn't really comment but .. I guess I wouldn't have much reason to be excited.

  4. perhaps correlated with RHEL 8? by nimbius · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Heres the RHEL 8 alpha branch for anaconda
    https://github.com/rhinstaller...
    As well as the commit activity...
    https://github.com/rhinstaller...

    What are the chances of a Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 release this year?

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  5. Re:Gnome? Nigga, please! by youngone · · Score: 2

    So what's the story with Gnome then?
    I'm really not trolling, and I prefer Cinnamon myself, but both Ubuntu and Redhat make Gnome their default desktop, and they must have some idea what they're doing, surely?
    I just can't see why they would push it if their users hate it so much. And yet I am yet to see much love for Gnome anywhere.

  6. Re:Fuck Fedora by ChrisMaple · · Score: 2

    Men generally don't report, so the numbers are intrinsically unavailable.

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