On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:47:50 -0800, nrballard wrote:
> On Nov 10, 5:29 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Video: Fedora 8 highlights
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>> | Fedora 8 has gone live, and we've got a short video that gives some |
>> background on the release, specifically the new custom spins. `----
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>> http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/08/video-fedora-8-highlights/
>>
>> Fedora 8 Review
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>> | Fedora (previously called Fedora Core) is an RPM-based, general
>> purpose Linux | distribution, developed by the community-supported
>> Fedora Project and | sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora's mission statement
>> is: "Fedora is about the | rapid progress of Free and Open Source
>> software." |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | Red Hat ruled the Linux distribution world, before Ubuntu came and
>> took over.
>
> Red Hat had a quality distribution for end-users, with support, which
> was sold on retail shelves nationwide. Then they dropped support for
> their desktop products and started marketing to businesses while using
> their community of desktop users as test subjects for new technology to
> be deployed in their enterprise products. Most Fedora releases have
> been absolutely craptacular compared to the Red Hat releases of the late
> 90's and the Ubuntu releases of today. If they want to recover lost
> users, they may want to consider producing a product of comparable
> quality.
>
I have found Fedora Core 6 , Fedora 7 and now Fedora 8 to be completely
problem free.
>> | With the current release for Fedora, it seems that Red Hat is
>> fighting really | hard to control the lost ground. The intense effort
>> is clear from the current | release. If we ignore minor hick-ups,
>> werewolf is one of the best releases | from Fedora. With this release
>> Fedora is returning to my workstation as | distribution of choice,
>> after a long time. `----
>
> These "minor hick-ups" so far include a permanent lock on YUM which
> prevents users from installing or removing applications.
Nonsense. I have no problem at all installing or removing applications
with yum.
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