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Fedora 27 released

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Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by jadbox »

DCKing wrote: post #33

I've switched to Fedora with version 26 (from Ubuntu and some dabbling with Manjaro) and really enjoy it. SELinux gave me a few headscratchers in the beginning but once you know how to deal with it it's great to have a distro that is both a great user experience and has some nice hardening/dont-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot features. The best thing for me about this release is better support for shared folders in Gnome…

What do you use Gnome Boxes for exactly.. is it for running a Windows instance?

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by ronjouch »

vesak wrote: post #39

Gnome-shell keeps crashing due to a libgobject segfault. About 4 times a day. No idea where the fault is, and even more amusingly, my other laptop works fine on the same settings. Price of complex software, I suppose.

May be https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788931 (half a dozen crashes a day here too). Regarding "No idea where the fault is", check journalctl, the crash should be logged here.

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by DCKing »

jadbox wrote: post #41
DCKing wrote: post #33

I've switched to Fedora with version 26 (from Ubuntu and some dabbling with Manjaro) and really enjoy it. SELinux gave me a few headscratchers in the beginning but once you know how to deal with it it's great to have a distro that is both a great user experience and has some nice hardening/dont-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot features. The best thing for me about this release is better support for shared folders in Gnome…

What do you use Gnome Boxes for exactly.. is it for running a Windows instance?

Yes. When you install the VirtIO guest additions in Windows it works really great and uses memory ballooning to significantly reduce taxing of system memory.

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by alphadevx »

porfirium wrote: post #34

Wayland out of the box?

I hope so. On Fedora 26 I still have to drop back to X11 in order to get my XPS13 to properly detect my external monitor (DisplayPort), Wayland will only allow the default lowest resolution with no option to increase it, which is very sad on a 28" 4K screen :-(

Will give Fedora 27 a go this evening and see...

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by DCKing »

jimmies wrote: post #40
DCKing wrote: post #33

I've switched to Fedora with version 26 (from Ubuntu and some dabbling with Manjaro) and really enjoy it. SELinux gave me a few headscratchers in the beginning but once you know how to deal with it it's great to have a distro that is both a great user experience and has some nice hardening/dont-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot features. The best thing for me about this release is better support for shared folders in Gnome…

I don't understand SELinux and I have not found a document that explains for the average Joe like me what it is for and why doesn't my qemu-libvirt work when it is enabled, which is the default. It took me two nights to figure out that SELinux prevents qemu-libvirt to read certain ROM files that I need. So after scratching my head, I just turned it off altogether. Other than that, Fedora has been really rock solid, g…

I am mostly on board with this, actually. The experience with machinectl and systemd-nspawn is also completely broken because there are no sane default SELinux rules for it.

However in my experience so far, the defaults do not get in your way during regular usage. You typically only encounter such issues when you're also in the position to fix them. And I think in general it's a great idea to have default deny policies for containers and VMs.

> So after scratching my head, I just turned it off altogether.

Please don't do this. It's not worth disabling an entire security system if you can just spend some time to figure out a command to make the system work for you. Fedora even has gui tools that notify you when you encounter an SELinux issue. See stopdisablingselinux.com.

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by fhood »

dmix wrote: post #20
stinkytaco wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not OP, but I value stability over having the latest version. Fedora is fairly bleeding edge compared to other fixed release distributions, but also tested. Fedora is also easier to install. The older I get, the less hassle I want.

I had a similar view towards Linux at first, preferring Fedora to ArchLinux for stability. But after switching back to Arch and sticking with it I've learned stability is a matter of software choice and experience with Linux, it's not necessarily more or less stable at the OS/package manager level. Using AUR/user-style packages or non-mainline packages (beta, unstable) is always a risk in whatever distro you use and…

I cannot disagree more. 90% of the most obnoxious issues I deal with on linux are related to nasty driver incompatibilities, and you will not convince me that I should have had more experience with linux. I want my drivers to work on install. I shouldn't need a second computer and a usb drive to get my system working.

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by epicide »

_ea1k wrote: post #24
farresito wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What did you dislike about Arch? I made the opposite move years ago: I went from Fedora to Arch, and it was possibly the best choice I could have made.

I have experimented with Arch at times, but I didn't have a great experience with the package repository. It seems like I had to go to AUR for a lot of packages that were in the default repository (or at least RPM Fusion) for Fedora.

Isn't having to go to RPM Fusion for a package effectively the same as having to go to the AUR?

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by jadbox »

dualogy wrote: post #35

Major props to the Fedora project, really gotta get this off my chest as I had Yet Another "distro-hopping just still ain't worth it even in 2017" moment yesterday. Somehow I have accumulated 4 laptops still-in-running-condition currently. Every rare once in a while, on a lazy weekend or when caught with a cold, I feel I should experimentally check out other distros and/or DE/WM combos than the singular one that has…

i3 with Fedora runs flawlessly for me out of the box: dnf install i3 i3status dmenu i3lock
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