Fedora 18 Isn't Looking Too Good, Anaconda Problems

[Hamish Wilson]

Sitting pretty with Fedora 16 and I am waiting for new hardware to arrive anyway before I can upgrade. So just release when it is done. I do not see what all the fuss is over this to be honest - and Anaconda does need an update. So, give it some time.

[zxy_thf]

Canonical has 50 people working on Ubuntu
RedHat has 3 working on Fedora.

And for everyone else there is Debian?

Bad credit card analogy.

Change Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian to "open-source communities", and count again.

Canonical guys trend to develop Ubuntu-specific software (Unity is the most outstanding one), while Red Hat works for the whole ecosystem.

[BO$$]

Not sure if trolling... but anyway, not sure where you're getting this idea that 'Fedora is going to shit' considering anaconda is just the python based graphical installer tool. Also, Fedora less usable? Hardly. How's your OpenGL performance under Unity these days?



I'd love to know where people get these wildly misinformed ideas about Fedora and Red Hat. In terms of company contributions, Red Hat have contributed more to the Linux eco-system than any other company and on the planet and have made a fortune doing so.

Infact, lets look at a report showing direct Kernel contributions between companies for kernels from 2.6.32 until 3.2 for example.. who leads the pack? Red Hat.
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-...lopment-report

Looking directly at the PDF, Canonical isn't even listed!
http://go.linuxfoundation.org/who-writes-linux-2012

Performance in Unity is absolute shit but that's why I use xfce. I fucking hate Unity and gnome shell new age desktop bullshit. And kde is just plainuglyevilfuckingstupid ...like.

[Xilanaz]

maybe they should switch to a rolling release thing... but if one Linux should be stopped, its Suse and maybe mandrake... I see no real benefit in having them... I mean Ubuntu was more or less needed because debian was too conservative and had to long release times, for most desktop users.

And staying always unstable is no real option because even today they have not the current gnome-shell release in it as example, not even the half like ubuntu does it ^^.

And it is not always unstable it gets kind of freezed before releases come. So whatever... but whats the reason behind suse? German isdn stuff is gone... each distribution is perfektly usable by germans... so wtf why didnt it die? Yes there are maybe some guys that are not that bad that work there. but why not help the fedora guys.

But it seems its a good business modell that works and they make money out of it, if that happens anything will continue, even if your company would plan to destroy the world, if making such a plan would generate income for a company they would do it ^^ (but to be fair novell dont plan to kill the planet).

But why not make it like ubuntu did it, have one main distro like fedora and then have some other mints call it opensuse or mandrake or whatever... you could also call it instead of suse kde-fedora oder kedora and so on ^^ but its business desition have nothing to do with technical efficency or rationalaties... there is money reinvent the wheel a thousend times jippy.

but you dont need to do even a ubuntuish thing... look at linux mint... also builds on top of ubuntu, why not make a linux mint like opensuse... and instead of build all stuff test it write all yourself... help a bit upstream and manage some packages. Or make a joint-venture or something like that ^^

suse does a whole lot more for the linux comunity in general then most of the distro's you mentioned, next to that with osb you can build anything you want and package for all the distro's you mentioned, its a solid good distro that fits nicely between fedora and ubuntu

[AJenbo]

They need to further though, using ubuntu as an example, their LTS releases are too slow with he hardware enablement updates, and you often get stuck with old software, having to use a bunch of ppa's to keep things up to date.

For example I have ivybridge graphics, so ubuntu 12.04 isn't really an option with its old kernel/drivers. At least fedora is usually decent about updating those.

You might want to install the Linux backport packages.

[Hamish Wilson]

suse does a whole lot more for the linux comunity in general then most of the distro's you mentioned, next to that with osb you can build anything you want and package for all the distro's you mentioned, its a solid good distro that fits nicely between fedora and ubuntu

Indeed, there is no reason for this hate on SUSE.

Performance in Unity is absolute shit but that's why I use xfce. I fucking hate Unity and gnome shell new age desktop bullshit. And kde is just plainuglyevilfuckingstupid ...like.

I see... you just like pissing everyone off.

[Ancurio]

I see... you just like pissing everyone off.

He's been a pretty obvious troll for quite some weeks, it always surprises me people don't recognize his shit posts from other threads.

[blackiwid]

suse does a whole lot more for the linux comunity in general then most of the distro's you mentioned, next to that with osb you can build anything you want and package for all the distro's you mentioned, its a solid good distro that fits nicely between fedora and ubuntu

I did not rant against suse developers, I dont just see the reason behind this fedora clone... I dont know there history but they are rpm based thats the reason I think its similar to fedora, they have other release-timings more conservative etc ok but it would be better to not reinvent the wheel so much times... I mean if you have a good goal it makes sense maybe... but both teams fedora and suse seems to have problems managing all stuff and having problems with releasework. there was a artikel where suse developers whined about if 2 guys go at the same time in holliday all falls apart or something like that.

So yes some of you argued that its a question about their enterprise distros... so redhat linux vs fedora and suse enterprise vs opensuse. that is just my point, they do that just because of making money its technicaly stupid to do. there is a reason why there are so many ubuntu-clones it costs much effort to make out of nothing or even out of debian a destkop-ready distribution its just more work, that taking ubuntu and make your diffs to that.

So they make themself more work, and dont work together because they want to sell it, it makes technicaly no sense. And to the suse is not redhatish, as far as I know, lsb is basicly we define how redhat does stuff as standart, mostly... and maybe I am wrong here? Suse have directory structure and rpm and most other stuff like lsb says it. So I dont really get it.

[lsatenstein]

New hardware systems are uefi based. Anaconda was first coded with one solution, and then, following SUSE, whose solution was superior, they dropped that solution for one that is as compliant.
Anaconda will be used by other distributions such as CENTOS, SCIENTIFIC LINUX, RED Hat Linux and other Linuxes that are forks of Fedora.

Solving the problem for Fedora is solving it for others. It has to work on many platforms, uefi and non uefi, on the mac and on pentium 3 systems as well as the atom.

That is quite a feat. The UBUNTU solution as far as I know, is a temporary one, that UBUNTU started with a year ago. The solution that parallels Fedora and SUSE will probably be presented in a later UBUNTU version.

I am using Fedora 18 based an the Alpha release. Because it was alpha, some stuff needs tweaking, but all the applications I have downloaded and used, work flawlessly.

So yes, we understand that Anaconda is late, and that the programer(s) are under pressure, but we must also back off from criticism. The new anaconda looks very much better than the legacy version from which we are moving away. One cannot divide ones attention to multiple problems when the others require a solid reliable installer program.

[Hamish Wilson]

I do hope some things have improved from this early look last August though in terms of design:
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/08/21...condas-new-ui/