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Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by [deleted] »

CIARobotFish wrote: post #54
scheme271 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'm willing to put up with a lot during an application process, but not Canonical's circus. If applying for a job at a company tells you anything about the company's culture then I don't think I would ever want to work there.

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Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by zifpanachr23 »

fpoling wrote: post #72
zifpanachr23 wrote: post #45

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I agree very strongly with your take. Fedora (and RHEL of course) ooze professionalism in a way that no other distro ecosystem does to me. It's rock solid AND comes with relatively new packages, AND they are close to stock. I also appreciate their willingness to put themselves forward and show leadership when it comes to adopting (or creating) new technologies that can make the platform better. I think most professio…

Fedora often updates kernel and that already broke laptop support (Thinkpad X1 Gen 13 bought a year ago) for me twice requiring to revert to older kernel. Also few years ago a kernel update made a laptop that was 7 years old non-functional. Eventually I had to install Debian as lack of security updates for the kernel was very problematic.

It is true that Fedora tends to run recent kernels and so that's definitely something folks should be aware of.

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by dector »

Been playing around Bluefin recently [1]. Which is based on Fedora Silverblue [2]. These are atomic OSes which seems very nice and innovative indeed.

I'm Debian user for 15+ years. But stable version is too old and testing for some reasons breaking quite often (last year I wasted more time on fixing Debian Testing after updates than my friend which uses Arch -_-). Now I'm looking for good alternatives and I think I will stick with containers rabbit hole. :)

Thanks @jcastro [3] and contributers for fantastic work! [1]: https://projectbluefin.io/ [2]: https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/ [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38992292

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by mwinatschek »

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

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by fpoling »

zifpanachr23 wrote: post #82
fpoling wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fedora often updates kernel and that already broke laptop support (Thinkpad X1 Gen 13 bought a year ago) for me twice requiring to revert to older kernel. Also few years ago a kernel update made a laptop that was 7 years old non-functional. Eventually I had to install Debian as lack of security updates for the kernel was very problematic.

It is true that Fedora tends to run recent kernels and so that's definitely something folks should be aware of.

Fedora updates kernel to the latest version typically within 6-8 weeks from the release.

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

boomskats wrote: post #79
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #3

Good work! Looks like one heck of a release! FYI they now build WSL tarballs! https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/42_Beta-1.4/Conta...

Excellent! So no more Whitewater Foundry?

I'm not sure they'll publish it in the windows store, you'll have to import it yourself. I've usually cobbled one together from their container rootfs. This tarball saves me some hassle

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by adduc »

wk_end wrote: post #77
dpool wrote: post #57

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Might be worth taking a look at https://frame.work/ .

I love the idea behind Framework, but my admittedly old one is nowhere near comparable to a MacBook. It's really unpleasant to use, feels cheap, and performance/battery life are shockingly poor on Kubuntu. It's not a patch on a ThinkPad even, much less a Mac. Have they gotten considerably better since I bought mine (end of 2022)?

Framework started selling larger batteries in 2023 (61 Whr vs the base 55 Whr), and from looking through older reviews it looks like battery life significantly improved (>25% better) with the 13th-gen Intel upgrade [1]. I've got their 13-inch AMD 7840U but can't speak to the battery life as it mostly sits docked.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/review-framework-lap...

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by ezekiel68 »

threePointFive wrote: post #70

I've been super happy with Fedora since switching to it on desktop. Unfortunately I'm still biased to Debian for the server usecase. Fedora moves too quickly but RHEL (and derivatives) not supporting major version upgrades is pretty much a deal breaker. Would love a RedHat-themed distro with a ~5year support cycle with the option to do major version upgrades.

In our environments, we use Fedora. We run the package upgrades weekly in a test env and make sure the functional/integration tests pass successfully, then roll those forward to stage and prod envs. Very seldom (twice in 5 years) have we caught a problem in the lower environment that prohibited the upgrade from moving on towards prod. And in both of those instances, newer package upgrades in the test env fixed the problems within a week or two without us needing to open up an issue ourselves in the Fedora forums.

Still, after one nasty experience in 2023, we always wait six to eight weeks after a new Fedora version is released before starring to attempt one of those upgrades. This has worked spectaculary well for us. We get all the benefits of newer mainline kernel drivers for recent server motherboard chipsets and CPUs while maintaining a very solid OS. CVEs seldom even get close to us, since they are often based on much older versions of system packages.

Re: Fedora 42 Beta

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Post by natnatenathan »

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…

Don’t forget to make a donation to Asahi, maybe it will be ready in time for your next laptop.
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