The ups and downs of Fedora 10
Submitted by srlinuxx on Fri, 12/05/2008 - 07:36.
This is a "mini review" of Fedora 10. I skipped Fedora 9, it just didn't feel "all there" to me, so I've been sticking with Fedora 8 on all of my machines. With the release of Fedora 10, I've installed it on a couple of systems here and wish to share some observations.
Installation
Almost exactly the same as with Fedora 8. The only change I noticed was under the disk partitioning options. Fedora has added a "Resize existing partitions" option to the Disk Druid. I didn't get to explore this option, but I'm pretty certain that it can only resize Linux partitions/filesystems. Why? Well, Fedora/RedHat has always been very picky about letting in software that might be "tainted", so there's no way that the resize code will work on NTFS filesystems. Keep your Knoppix disc handy, you'll need it to downsize NTFS partitions on a machine bought from a store!
Booting Up
Whoa! The new "Plymouth" loader is fast!
Too soon for KDE 4.0; too late for Gnome 2.4 ? Neither usable ?
KDE 4.0 with the new codes need to have conversion osftware written, before all the apps can be used. Too soon for Linux to sell for money. Plasma like Xfce lacks a list of dependency files to include all the toolbars and taskbars to synchronize its layout engine for a complete display. Dual taskbar displays can be unstable.
Gnome 2.4 is too late for virtualization of tools and utilities. Which can do wonders for middleware to use and change Gnome apps. Don't add to python, add to tools and utilities. Mono should be add-on. office should be add-on.
Open source developers often plunge ahead and change codes to destroy any commercial value of a Linux distro.
What needs to be done is for Linus and Andrew Morton to hold the mayo, and add and remove virtualization of tools and utility; so that open source codes have some stablity for a lengthier duration. Sad but true.
We only need stable kernels then add new features as apps. If we have apps, we only need tools and utilities to make apps more versatile.