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Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by imglorp »

zifpanachr23 wrote: post #48
akdor1154 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Canonical gives off some weird vibes and those in the know will understand what I'm talking about. You're probably trying to write fairly and without throwing shade, but the result is this gives off vibes of FUD. Can you be a bit more specific about your issues with Canonical?

You're right and I apologize for that and don't want to discourage anybody from doing business with or working with or for Canonical. All I'll say is that the recruitment process alone, if it's still as bad as it used to be, is a major red flag and deal breaker w.r.t what it says about the overall culture. Maybe things have changed and so people should really take my opinions about them with a grain of salt.

I also had a poor experience with Canonical hiring process.

I applied for an EM role in May 2020, crickets for NINE months, then they invited me to begin the process in Feb 2021. Of course I had signed up elsewhere long before that.

Yep, hiring is hard, but how you treat applicants says everything about your culture.

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by bdkoepke »

virtualwhys wrote: post #55
captn3m0 wrote: post #36

Asahi also has the 42 Beta available today: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-asahi-remix-42-... Notably with FEX support for running x86 binaries. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FEX

Was just in an Apple Store yesterday mulling over whether or not to switch back to macOS after 15 years on Linux PCs. Both MacBook Pros and Airs are nice machines, but macOS, for me, it's a huge step back. Unfortunately the Asahi project is underfunded (likely one of the reasons the project founder/lead jumped ship recently), and as a result M4 support is likely a year+ away. Oh wells, let's see what Dell and Lenovo…

If you have a perksatwork account, you can get a thinkpad with those specs for about $1.2k. During national holidays it goes for under $1k.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/le...

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by [deleted] »

skyyler wrote: post #16
staplung wrote: post #7

Gah! Why did they name their installer Anaconda? That name is already totally overloaded by the python Anaconda, which I notice now bills itself as "The Operating System for AI". That's like naming your programming language "JIT", or "Compiler" or..."Hack". UPDATE: as others have pointed out, I've got it backwards. RedHat had the name first. So, criticism retracted and redirected at the other Anaconda.

You should be asking why the python Anaconda overloaded a term already being used by the Red Hat installer.

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Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by cozzyd »

nasir wrote: post #31

Using Fedora 3 as my first linux distro makes seeing this nostalgic.

I remember the thrill of installing FC4 on my then-new laptop entering college...

(and have been running fedora ever since...)

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by worthless-trash »

mwinatschek wrote: post #84
captn3m0 wrote: post #36

Asahi also has the 42 Beta available today: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-asahi-remix-42-... Notably with FEX support for running x86 binaries. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FEX

I’d love to install Fedora Asahi Remix on my MacBook but without built-in disk encryption the whole operating system is unfortunately quite useless for me. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941021

Its fedora based right ? , You can just encrypt /home, its stupid easy.

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by worthless-trash »

boomskats wrote: post #78
xd1936 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fedora Core 6 here!

FC1 (i think? or like a pre-release beta version?) was the first time I saw that sweet, sweet, slick gnome UX and magical font rendering and mouse acceleration. I remember exactly where I was too - Birks halls at Exeter uni, spring 2003, on my mate Benji's Samsung laptop. It looked so amazing. He was so proud of it. I told him it looked shit and that I was sick of rpm and that he was a noob and that I was more than h…

How did you forget the hotdog on boot ?

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by zamalek »

jjice wrote: post #8

I've been feeling a pull towards Fedora lately away from Ubuntu, especially because there's apparently better hardware support for Framework laptops. Does anyone have experience for migrating from Ubuntu to Fedora? Package reinstallation isn't an issue for me, but wondering if anyone has some general tips for migrating everything between distributions, especially with different parent distros.

I did tons of distro hopping a year or two ago, I landed on both Ubuntu and Fedora. One thing that I absolutely did not like about Fedora is that updates take a non-trivial time on reboot (this generally isn't a problem with Ubuntu). On the other hand, Fedora has packages newer than the last ice age. You'll probably have to use a COPR or two (the equivalent of PPAs).

Other than that, you'll just be using dnf instead of apt. Articles/answers for RHEL usually work on Fedora. You should really feel right at home.

It's also worth having a look at Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite (or universal blue, which is newer than what I've used). Installing packages at a system level is more involved (they really want you to use Flatpak and containers), but it is possible. I had a CI server spitting out my system image weekly at one point. If NixOS didn't exist I would be using this.

I don't have much respect for Ubuntu. They did a lot for bringing Linux on the desktop from zero, but I feel as though it's being held back by Ubuntu these days (especially with snaps). At least consider Debian instead.

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by nycticorax »

I'm excited to see KDE promoted to being an "edition", but does anyone know what is behind this decision? It surprises me that Red Hat would take this step, since they are (seemingly) a big GNOME proponent, and I thought many of the GNOME developers work for Red Hat.

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by watermelon0 »

mwinatschek wrote: post #84
captn3m0 wrote: post #36

Asahi also has the 42 Beta available today: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-asahi-remix-42-... Notably with FEX support for running x86 binaries. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FEX

I’d love to install Fedora Asahi Remix on my MacBook but without built-in disk encryption the whole operating system is unfortunately quite useless for me. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941021

There is a link to the blog post about how to enable disk encryption after installation.

The only issue with that is that the boot chain is not verified, and you are not protected against evil maid attack.

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by happymellon »

scheme271 wrote: post #52
zifpanachr23 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right and I apologize for that and don't want to discourage anybody from doing business with or working with or for Canonical. All I'll say is that the recruitment process alone, if it's still as bad as it used to be, is a major red flag and deal breaker w.r.t what it says about the overall culture. Maybe things have changed and so people should really take my opinions about them with a grain of salt.

If you're referring to the recruitment asking questions about your high school performance and how you ranked locally and regionally in high school in various subjects, that's still a thing. Even for positions where that shouldn't matter.

I find it insane that it's even a topic that people would know the answer to.

I cannot possibly tell you how my UK school ranked in the 90s, how I ranked in any subject at the school, and especially how I would have ranked regionally.

This seems like such an insane thing to even know, let alone ask.

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