grendal Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 I was just wondering if the fedora users here are excited about the upcoming release. How do you think it stacks up to Spring, or other recent Distro releases? I'm sure someone here has tried the betas, so what can everyone expect from the merger of repositories. As I take it, they didn't merge until test 3? Since I'm not a fedora user, what difference does this really make? I guess I'm like a customer at a store waiting to be sold on a new product. Nothing wrong with what I have now, I just saw the shiny box/ad and what to know more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 I had a look at their beta Live CD. Pretty and interesting, for my taste the most advanced setup -besides Mandriva One- of a unionfs live system. Immediately adapted their isolinux start screen into MCNLive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 I was just wondering if the fedora users here are excited about the upcoming release. My first impressions can be found here: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=40206How do you think it stacks up to Spring, or other recent Distro releases?Comparably good. Although fedora is not as much aimed at the desktop as Mandriva and more aligned to the OSS principles, both distros are imho very, very cool..I'm sure someone here has tried the betas, so what can everyone expect from the merger of repositories. As I take it, they didn't merge until test 3? Since I'm not a fedora user, what difference does this really make? Distrowatch gave a good answer to that: "after merging what the developers used to call the "core" and "extras" package repositories, the distribution has now become simply Fedora. The merge should simplify both the package management part of the distribution (there won't be a need for two different repositories in the yum configuration file) and the ability of the project provide up-to-date, well-maintained packages from contributing developers - all in one central repository." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted May 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 YOu know, One of these days I will have to take advantage of that little button. The one that says "search". Thanks Arctic, I will read on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 Should be a good one, i'm hoping that the merge of repo's isn't too late in the process, but I have confidence in their developers ;) Give it a try I say, only you will know if it works for you, if it does, great, if it doesn't, it's not the end of the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted May 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 Give it a try I say, only you will know if it works for you, if it does, great, if it doesn't, it's not the end of the world. Too true. Although it does seem to drive my family nuts when I change distros, then go back to Mandriva. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 It drives my wife nuts. I'm constantly between distros, and then back again :D Incidently, I will be checking Fedora 7 against my hardware to see what it's like for my new lappy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 It drives my wife nuts. I'm constantly between distros, and then back againHello, bro. :D Same here. But now, I will probably settle on Mdv2007.1 as the main distro as it works with my printer. But I still have a second partition on the main desktop-system that I can use for playing around without my girlfriend noticing it. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 ... that I can use for playing around without my girlfriend noticing it. :PThey always know.Sooner or later, they always find out when you're playing around... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 30, 2007 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 Imagine my wife's surprise when she came to her laptop, and, Mandriva was there. I did it while she was asleep :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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