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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 marbu »

groovy2shoes wrote: post #48
zanny wrote: post #11

If there were a rolling release Fedora, I'd be all over that as a drop-in alternative to Ubuntu for friends and family. * Systemd > Upstart in performance usability (for me, at least). * selinux > apparmor when properly integrated (personal preference, but it sees more active development and feature parity). * RPMs and debs are basically the same thing except not. I have to say adding repos in Ubuntu is much easier t…

There's Fedora Rawhide, akin to Debian Sid: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide

I would rather not tell people to use Rawhide unless they have some specific development needs. The link you provided tells that in the begining. For more information see this lwn article: https://lwn.net/Articles/506831/

Re: Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" released

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Post by reidrac »

keypusher wrote: post #60
reidrac wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What do you mean by includes? It's the default interface, or it's accessible in the repos? Looks really nice and I'm thinking of upgrading from FC17.

Cinnamon is not installed by default (it is based on Gnome 3 that it is the default), you need to run:

yum groupinstall "Cinnamon Desktop"

Check the release notes: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Release_N...

Re: Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" released

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Post by donniezazen »

sethish wrote: post #68
donniezazen wrote: post #25

Between cutting edge Fedora and Bleeding edge Arch, my vote goes to Arch. It does take a long time to setup Arch but after that most packages can be grabbed from repo or AUR unlike Fedora that recommends manual compiling.

Examples? The only things I have to compile are python packages with c-extensions and the occasional small daemon like xcape.

Thinkfan is one of the packages that I couldn't find in fedora repo or any third party repos. It is available in Ubuntu repo and pretty much every software out there is available in Arch's AUR. Other license ridden packages like MS Core Fonts are included in Ubuntu Partner's repo and again in AUR. You will also have to either write systemd files or borrow and modify from other places. Ubuntu has a huge collection of PPAs and Arch has AUR. But again all of these things can be done using already posted tutorials or community help.
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