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    Comment #4038454

    I'm not sure about MATE but instructions to install the unofficial packages for Cinnamon on Fedora 16 and Fedora 17 are available [1]. [1] http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.…

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    Comment #4038409

    I'm not sure that documentation is correct - there were some changes in the installer for F17 that lowered that memory requirement and we explicitly tested installs with 512 MiB (t…

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    Comment #3882582

    "Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,155,876 tested so far." Huh, that's awesome ... in a bad way. According to that page , both my system fonts and browser p…

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    Comment #3214140

    Unfortunately, gnome-shell doesn't work well in VMs due to the fact that it requires 3D acceleration. AFAIK, virtualbox is the only platform that supports 3D emulation but I can't …

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    Comment #3212883

    Yes, you can upgrade that way but it's not recommended (see the warning @ the top of that page). That upgrade method isn't really tested and may or may not work depending on your s…

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    Comment #3108768

    Wow, it works for me with FF 7.0.1 and nouveau on Linux. A little laggy when I go fullscreen, sure but the last time I tried viewing WebGL FF told me that my 3D setup wasn't suppor…

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    Comment #3033584

    "Testing is a tool for helping you, not for using to engage in a 'more pious than thou' dick-swinging my Cucumber is bigger than yours idiocy. Testing is about giving you the devel…

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    Comment #2490173

    I've never applied for a job at Amazon but I have done the same thing with other companies. When I was last looking for a job, I found a couple of interesting positions whose HR sy…

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    Comment #2289640

    It was discussed in the CentOS forums, though: https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=... To quote the forum thread: The CentOS kernel is just a rebuild, so th…

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    Comment #2270407

    I don't know if this is what you were looking for, but one option would be the Fedora project. General: http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora Specific Areas: https://fedoraprojec…

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    Comment #2270317

    Yeah, I know what you mean about solutions. Actually solving the problem at hand is a whole different world than finding the problem. I know that I've been guilty of not making/upd…

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    Comment #2270095

    While my statement probably doesn't covey this very well, I certainly am not an advocate of amalgamating dirty hacks or throwing any thoughts about good design out the window in th…

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    Comment #2268783

    That's an interesting question. I also wonder how you would get designers to start open source projects without getting the opposite of a "developer-centric" project where develope…

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    Comment #2268702

    re: 2) I can't speak for all developers, but I generally try to work with the mantra of "first make it work, then make it work well and then make it pretty or fast (depending on wh…