Comments on: Fedora 18 Beta Release!

By: Fedora 18 | !Connecting People ;) | woGue

Fedora 18 | !Connecting People ;) | woGue — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:57:44 +0000

[...] Fedora 18 Beta Release! [...]

By: lunesanctuaire

lunesanctuaire — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:24:00 +0000

mmm Do we move away from Mint…. might give it a try…Thanks for your input

By: Brandon Watkins

Brandon Watkins — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:19:00 +0000

I tried UGR a while back and found it to be incredibly buggy

By: Helder Pereira

Helder Pereira — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:23:00 +0000

There are two things fundamentally wrong with the current PackageKit front-end in Fedora. It is slow and the search is very poor. If you misspell a package name or forget an hyphen or something, you won’t find anything remotely close to what you searched. Having a package manager that assumes users must know the exact name of every single package is as good as having no package manager. I have more accurate results finding a package name in Google. Using yum in console is way faster, and that’s what I do now, but I hope the situation improves presumably when GNOME develops its own Software Centre (I’ve seen some mock-ups of it somewhere and it looks awesome.)

By: Máirín Duffy

Máirín Duffy — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:05:00 +0000

Hey, thanks for the quick correction! Very cool :)

By: alex285

alex285 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:29:00 +0000

I meant that Anaconda now feels more Gnomish, rather exact copy GnomeOS designs. Sorry for that and thank you for making it clear. I edit it!

By: Máirín Duffy

Máirín Duffy — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:00:00 +0000

(we did – of course – try to keep it GNOME-friendly and tried to follow the HIG and GNOME visual style, etc.! But the GNOME OS installer designs were much too limited to meet the needs of our more sophisticated users, especially in the storage dept….)

By: Máirín Duffy

Máirín Duffy — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:59:00 +0000

“Anaconda obviously follows the Gnome OS Installation Designs”

As the lead UX designer I can tell you this is markedly not true. But otherwise I’m glad you found the new installer design to be useful, thanks for the review of the beta! :)

By: Links 29/11/2012: Dell Sells GNU/Linux Gear at Lower Cost Than Windows, Fedora 18 Reaches Beta | Techrights

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 02:18:16 +0000

[...] Fedora 18 Beta Release! [...]

By: alex285

alex285 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:51:00 +0000

Great! Probably I would had the same issue that’s why I used RPM Fusion, but I can’t remember :)

By: Mace

Mace — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Thank you very much you saved my day! I rushed into Fedora 18 earlier today. Although I did back up my old files, I forgot to copy out a few important files created in my old virtual box guest machine. The RPM fusion package installed without problem. I was then able to import the vdi file to restore my old virtual machine. Thanks again!

By: alex285

alex285 — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:12:00 +0000

Normally I get Vbox from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/ but I just noticed that I used the RPM Fusion package. Do you want to give a try to that ?

By: Mace

Mace — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:00:00 +0000

Nice post! Since you mentioned Virtual Box, may I ask: how do you manage to install it in Fedora 18 BETA? The Fedora 17 package does not work with an error message like: “file /usr/bin from install of VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.4_81684_fedora17-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.x86_64″

By: Rilasciata Fedora 18 Beta: MATE, Gnome 3.6 e un rinnovato Anaconda | Chimera Revo

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:51:20 +0000

[...] è la presenza di GNOME Software per la gestione e la manutenzione dei pacchetti… tuttavia, a quanto sembra, il binomio YUM+Gnome Software è disastroso, ed è una buona soluzione migrare da Yum a Def (la [...]

By: coppa carlo

coppa carlo — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:14:00 +0000

I tried for a long time Fedora 17, but I find the Gnome Shell very uncomfortable, especially when I work. This is the main reason that made me go back to Ubuntu, in my opinion Unity is much more suited to the job.

By: sllih

sllih — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:28:00 +0000

http://zee-nix.blogspot.com/2012/11/boxes-video-tutorial.html

By: Josh Melling

Josh Melling — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:15:00 +0000

Waiting for the day I can replace ubuntu with Fedora… Currently Running UGR 12.10 with Gnome 3.7.2

Side note: You guys should do a Tutorial on using gnome Boxes sometime.

By: Stiph

Stiph — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:27:00 +0000

It already is in the “Package collections” entry… you can install LibreOffice like that. It just is not very discoverable ;)

By: alex285

alex285 — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:52:00 +0000

I see what you mean. But if it wasn’t user ratings and popularity, I doubt I have ever played Angry Birds and use Firebug :)

Specially if you are going to buy something and you can’t try it for free, it matters a lot. I trust user ratings when I buy online from Amazon or other eShops. Besides I have no other alternative. Sometimes I am wondering if small shops are cheating in reviews and ratings.. In that case I am just a sucker :)

By: jon_downfromthetrees

jon_downfromthetrees — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:34:00 +0000

Well, when I’ve used Ubuntu I have paid little attention to the reviews in the USC. Typically, I’ll know what I want to install before I run any graphical package. I’ll do that, instead of using apt-get in Ubuntu, when I want to see how Ubuntu describes a package and which version is available.

It’s not that I actively distrust the reviews or think that they are bogus. I don’t. But, I know nothing about the people who posted them. I know nothing about their experience, skills, etc. It’s like going to a travel site loaded with reviews of hotels, etc., from other people. You don’t know the reviewers and few post anything that, frankly, amounts to more than “Great!” or “Awful!”.