What's new in Fedora 17

Discussion in 'all things UNIX' started by vasa1, May 29, 2012.

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  1. vasa1

    vasa1 Registered Member

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  2. Hungry Man

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    The new sandbox is cool. If it's the one I'm thinking of it's basically LXC enforced by SELinux. So a copy-on-write SELinux sandbox.
     
  3. Dang, I completely forgot that it would be released today! I'll have to give it a try.

    Shame about the lack of Xfce 4.10, and the awful name.
     
  4. vasa1

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    "Fedora 18 will be called "Spherical cow"

    And re. "Shame about the lack of Xfce 4.10", if I can install it I'm sure others can.
     
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    Announcement at DistroWatch:
    http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07273
     
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    a quick question this is Out or beta/ alpha o_O

    Good thing i didn't finnish the last 16 download damn it's huge
     
  7. "Spherical Cow..." Wow. LOL. However I stil assert that "Spherical Cow" is better than "Beefy Miracle."

    BTW, I'm liking Gnome Shell 3.4. It's finally fast enough to be usable! I still would like a way to turn off the animations and drop shadows, but I have to take back what I've said about its usability. The expose/launcher window model is superior to the menu/taskbar in a lot of ways, assuming your computer has the GPU (or CPU) power for it.

    OTOH, I remember E16 being able to do shrunken window snapshots and such back in 2007, faster and without any use of OpenGL; so I still think the use of 3D acceleration is rather silly.

    (You can also do window snapshots in FVWM. IIRC this is usually done using Imagemagick to grab a window screenshot and shrink it, then present it as an icon. So it's not like the tools for doing such things are hard to come by, either.)
     
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    LOL....
     
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    i just wanted to know if anyone know a Good Noob friendly guide on how to
    secure my Fedora or better how to get the Most of those new features
    it seem to complicted for me
     
  10. sunoracle

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    So Fedora 19 will be Cow Flop.
     
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