On 09/16/2009 05:18 AM, gil...@altern.org wrote:
This said, it seems that Debian sometimes reacts faster than Fedora.
Whereas LiVES is still, as far as I know, a bug report/wishlist in Fedora,
the other distro has it included for the next release:
That's a bad example. LiVES is not in any
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 04:48 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote:
Davide wrote:
This said, it seems that Debian sometimes reacts faster than Fedora.
Whereas LiVES is still, as far as I know, a bug report/wishlist in Fedora,
the other distro has it included for the next release:
Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 00:23 -0700 schrieb Suvayu Ali:
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 04:48 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote:
Davide wrote:
This said, it seems that Debian sometimes reacts faster than Fedora.
Whereas LiVES is still, as far as I know, a bug report/wishlist in Fedora,
the
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote:
Wanted to remind of some counter examples,
* Xubuntu 9.04 @ work:
Firefox 3.0
Thunderbird 2.0
Pidgin 2.5.5 (supports only IMs)
Emacs 22.2
* Fedora 11 @ home:
Firefox 3.5.3
Tim:
Perhaps what's wanted, versus what's simply available?
davide
I can agree, but I think there are pieces of software that are more
that just available but that are not in fedora.
One I can point out now is the vim-latexsuite. It's very simple to
install, i agree, but it's simpler and
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 01:25 AM, davide wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Suvayu Alifatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote:
Wanted to remind of some counter examples,
* Xubuntu 9.04 @ work:
Firefox 3.0
Thunderbird 2.0
Pidgin 2.5.5 (supports only IMs)
RAhul Sundaram wrote:
On 09/16/2009 05:18 AM, gil...@altern.org wrote:
This said, it seems that Debian sometimes reacts faster than Fedora.
Whereas LiVES is still, as far as I know, a bug report/wishlist in
Fedora,
the other distro has it included for the next release:
That's a bad
Paul wrote:
For me, it's the only one to use - albeit rawhide has had it's
moments... like at one point if yum died during the update due to the
machine locking, the next boot would render an almost useless box...
Don't forget that Rawhide is for people who want to be bleeding edge and
wish
My impression is that Fedora is now getting very good. Over the last
couple of years my main gripe has been over audio (sound recorder was
useless and recent problems playing sound files) but the latest kernel
upgrade seems to have removed the last of (several?) bugs and it all
works beautifully.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:17 AM, James Bridge ja...@xmas.demon.co.uk wrote:
My impression is that Fedora is now getting very good. Over the last
couple of years my main gripe has been over audio (sound recorder was
useless and recent problems playing sound files) but the latest kernel
upgrade
davide wrote:
I just wonder why repositories offers so few with respect the other
distro. I mean, last time I checked there was a 10k+ packages difference.
What is the other distro?
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On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 13:13 +0200, davide wrote:
I just wonder why repositories offers so few with respect the other
distro. I mean, last time I checked there was a 10k+ packages
difference.
Perhaps what's wanted, versus what's simply available?
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote:
davide wrote:
I just wonder why repositories offers so few with respect the other
distro. I mean, last time I checked there was a 10k+ packages difference.
What is the other distro?
ubuntu. I checked with the karmic
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 13:13 +0200, davide wrote:
I just wonder why repositories offers so few with respect the other
distro. I mean, last time I checked there was a 10k+ packages
difference.
Perhaps what's wanted,
On 09/15/2009 04:43 PM, davide wrote:
I just wonder why repositories offers so few with respect the other
distro.
I mean, last time I checked there was a 10k+ packages difference.
I suppose a big part is very specific software not so popular, but
still the difference is impressive.
Is
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Rahul Sundaram
sunda...@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On 09/15/2009 04:43 PM, davide wrote:
I just wonder why repositories offers so few with respect the other
distro.
I mean, last time I checked there was a 10k+ packages difference.
I suppose a big part is very
On 09/15/2009 06:11 PM, davide wrote:
If
Packages in Fedora are maintained in a voluntary basis. Every new
package has to go through a review process for sanity checks. If you are
interested, you can join by either packaging up the software you are
missing out or reviewing dozens and dozens of
I know, I was looking for some raw data, like source packages to try
to extrapolate more accurate data.
but a gap of more than 10k binary packages gives the idea.
In my personal experience it is somewhat less grandoise.
IIRC, majority of the packages is simply snapshotted from Debian Sid
2009/9/15 Tomek Chrzczonowicz chrzczonow...@gmail.com:
In my personal experience it is somewhat less grandoise.
IIRC, majority of the packages is simply snapshotted from Debian Sid and
only a fraction of packages is maintained and supported by Canonical
(the main repo).
The rest (the
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Rahul Sundaram
sunda...@fedoraproject.org wrote:
have you a pointer to a wiki explaining how I can help?
If you want to package software, look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
If you want to help out with reviews,
Davide wrote:
I just wonder why repositories offers so few with respect (to) the
other distro
Beside all the good reasons that have already been given, the utmostly
community spirit of Debian must be considered. People take a lot of
pride in being Debian developers. So, even though a package
Hi,
I'm as far from a geek as anybody can be, but I certainly appreciate that
Fedora chose me.
Using Fedora I've never looked back, it just works.
I must say, having been with RedHat since pre version 1 (go
bootstrapping!), I've seen many ups and downs in the stability and speed
of
I was not counting packages in getdeb or ppa, I simply prefere not use
them, if I don't know the sources...
I didn't imply that you counted them. I meant that packages in universe
are generally not updated to the latest upstream versions, which in and
of itself is fine as long as they're
I just saw that the Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch has
been continuing as some learned Fedora vs Ubuntu debate. Since I deleted
those messages, I have to start a new thread.
Countrary to most people here, I'm not very tech savvy. All I want is my
distro to work. I have a certain
Thanks for the great read. Hope you enjoy Fedora!
:)
-- Robin
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:52 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote:
I just saw that the Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch has
been continuing as some learned Fedora vs Ubuntu debate. Since I deleted
those messages, I have to
I'm as far from a geek as anybody can be, but I certainly appreciate that
Fedora chose me.
Using Fedora I've never looked back, it just works.
Do the updates as soon as they come in and it should be fine, it is for me.
Yum is the update manager, it works.
If you're worried about security
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