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The Fedora team announced the public release of Fedora 14 beta. The beta features a number of new features including KDE 4.5 and Spice for virtualization.
Just about a week ago was only the Alpha! The Beta is already out? Man, I had no idea that's how fast the Fedora release cycle is. Even Ubuntu isn't that bleeding edge!
Actually, I have personally had the best luck with LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) -- especially the way it is rolling release, a trait I like about distros, and the way it still has a GUI on the Live CD instead of just a dumb console. I personally going to remaster the Live CD I already have with the Debian Unstable repo instead of the Testing repo and call it "Unstable Edition".
Why is the console dumb? If I ever need to do a recovery using a livecd, I much prefer going directly TO a console rather than a dumb GUI that takes ages to load to RAM just to do the same tasks.
Just about a week ago was only the Alpha! The Beta is already out? Man, I had no idea that's how fast the Fedora release cycle is. Even Ubuntu isn't that bleeding edge!
that is one of the reasons i post fedora's release cycle
for ex.
install fedora 13 but in Nov. do a full clean reinstall with 14 , then in 6 months reformat and install 15... and so on every 6 months.
or make sure your /boot partition is 1+ gig in size -- default is 100 meg-- and use "preupgrade" ( but no guarantee it will work) the deves recommend doing a reformat and clean install of the new version.
last year i decided to get of the fedora roller coaster ( fedora 4 to 11 )
Why is the console dumb? If I ever need to do a recovery using a livecd, I much prefer going directly TO a console rather than a dumb GUI that takes ages to load to RAM just to do the same tasks.
Yes, but in order to connect to the Internet wirelessly, especially from a Live CD, you need a GUI unless you want to do serious configuration file editing and then iwconfig the connections in the conffiles.
A GUI + Network Manager + a terminal emulator makes it much easier.
And John VV: The one reason I don't like Fedora (unless you use Rawhide) is that it's not rolling release and therefore does not stay up-to-date unless you reformat and reinstall.
I would personally "sudo nano /etc/crontab" and edit the file in order to automatically "update-manager -d" my Ubuntu installation every 6 months.
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