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Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" released

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Re: Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" released

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Post by rjknight »

Hopefully Gnome 3.6 will be a bit more mature and address some of the concerns people have with it, although MATE is now a first-class package in the Fedora repository for those who can't stand Gnome 3.

Looking at the feature list, there are relatively few blockbuster features, but I'd be interested to know how useful people think the Active Directory support is, relative to support in other Linux distros (or OSX for that matter).

Re: Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" released

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Post by reidrac »

rjknight wrote: post #2

Hopefully Gnome 3.6 will be a bit more mature and address some of the concerns people have with it, although MATE is now a first-class package in the Fedora repository for those who can't stand Gnome 3. Looking at the feature list, there are relatively few blockbuster features, but I'd be interested to know how useful people think the Active Directory support is, relative to support in other Linux distros (or OSX for…

Fedora 18 includes Cinnamon: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/

I think it is a very good option if you don't like Gnome 3 but want to benefit from all the new stuff (ie. GTK+ 3) with a more traditional desktop interface.

Re: Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" released

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Post by [deleted] »

reidrac wrote: post #8
rjknight wrote: post #2

Hopefully Gnome 3.6 will be a bit more mature and address some of the concerns people have with it, although MATE is now a first-class package in the Fedora repository for those who can't stand Gnome 3. Looking at the feature list, there are relatively few blockbuster features, but I'd be interested to know how useful people think the Active Directory support is, relative to support in other Linux distros (or OSX for…

Fedora 18 includes Cinnamon: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ I think it is a very good option if you don't like Gnome 3 but want to benefit from all the new stuff (ie. GTK+ 3) with a more traditional desktop interface.

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Re: Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" released

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Post by JamesMcMinn »

rjknight wrote: post #2

Hopefully Gnome 3.6 will be a bit more mature and address some of the concerns people have with it, although MATE is now a first-class package in the Fedora repository for those who can't stand Gnome 3. Looking at the feature list, there are relatively few blockbuster features, but I'd be interested to know how useful people think the Active Directory support is, relative to support in other Linux distros (or OSX for…

Gnome 3.6 is better in a lot of ways, but worse in about as many more.

I do wish they'd stop removing features just to make the UI simple (not even necessarily better, or easier to use, just simple).

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