Fedora 16 is out!

[bar1]

Hi, in case you guys don't know, fedora 16 is out.
give it a try.

http://fedoraproject.org/

 

[warwickw]

I'm amazed at how support for Fedora has dwindled, 3 years ago if you posted this it would have had a lot or comments and discussion going on about the new release. Has Ubuntu taken these followers or another distro?

 

[Axis]

I love Fedora 16. Just installed it on a pc I have just for messing around with Linux. You kind of have to set it up though, unlike Ubuntu which is all fairly automatic.

 

[MickZA]

I'm amazed at how support for Fedora has dwindled, 3 years ago if you posted this it would have had a lot or comments and discussion going on about the new release. Has Ubuntu taken these followers or another distro?

Fedora is still my personal distro of choice and, if anything, seems to be making up some loss in popularity because of the Gnome 3 / Unity debate. Still, at the end of the day, choice is what Linux is all about

At one point Ubuntu seemed to be perfect for the average office end user and I performed a few v8/9 installations but reverted most to Fedora because of problems with things breaking on updates and upgrades, Fedora has seemed to be less "Bleeding Edge" in this regard in recent releases.

ATM the current preferred desktop distro for my clients is Fedora 14 or CentOS 6 both with Gnome 2 - data capture operators scare easily and Gnome 3 & Unity need to mature some more before exposing them .

For the Linux home user I suspect that Linux Mint could well overtake Ubuntu in popularity in time to come.

 

[Ockie]

For the Linux home user I suspect that Linux Mint could well overtake Ubuntu in popularity in time to come.

It already has:

Rank Distribution H.P.D*
1 Mint 2355
2 Ubuntu 2092
3 Fedora 1784
4 openSUSE 1326
5 Debian 1311
6 Arch 1222
7 PCLinuxOS 1024
8 CentOS 928

http://distrowatch.com/

 

[kingrob]

Hi, in case you guys don't know, fedora 16 is out.
give it a try.

http://fedoraproject.org/

Who bowled him?

 

[hawker]

I'm still using Fedora 15 on one my machines :/ sigh.

@oc, distrowatch is not an accurate reflection of number of users.

 

[kingrob]

I'm still using Fedora 15 on one my machines :/ sigh.

@oc, distrowatch is not an accurate reflection of number of users.

And distrowatch.com is in dire need of a site refresh. It's butt-ugly.

 

[floomby]

Using Fedora 16 with the Gnome Shell now. It seems to be nicely polished (after an update) - I am impressed.

In the past, Fedora releases always seem slightly unfinished but this one seems to be good.