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Linux lines up

Ubuntu may get most of the attention but the other big three Linux makers are also raring to go with new releases.
 
rpm said:
Linux lines up

Ubuntu may get most of the attention but the other big three Linux makers are also raring to go with new releases.
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I downloaded the latest distros this past week, including Suse, Mint, Knoppix and Mandriva. I was hoping to find decent support for my laptop's video hardware. (Ati Mobility Radeon 5470) I prefer Mint and Mandriva, but unforunately my graphics card wasn't supported properly.

As a last resort I tried Ubuntu 10 beta and it was the ONLY one that had decent drivers.

Maybe the other distros will have support in their upcoming new releases, but Ubuntu was the first to shine.
 
The new Ubuntu is shaping up to be amazing! Been using it since the Alpha releases and I really think it is the most solid release yet!
 
Fedora 13 uses the KDE 4.4 desktop environment by default which includes better audio support among other major changes.
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For all Fedora fans who had a heart attack when they read this - relax, the default F13 Alpha desktop is still Gnome with KDE as a alternate download.

Don't know what the author was smoking but he might have been confused by F13-Alpha-i686-Live being a DVD iso whereas the KDE version is CD.

This info comes to you courtesy of F13 Live and Axxess uncapped:)
 
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hawker said:
The new Ubuntu is shaping up to be amazing! Been using it since the Alpha releases and I really think it is the most solid release yet!
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Anyone tried the Kubuntu Lucid Lynx beta1 yet?
 
... the brand new Btrfs filesystem...
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Let's hope it doesn't lose data like ext4 does!

One of the big changes in Fedora 13 is hopefully real plug-and-play printer installations. Using the combined power of RPM and the PackageKit tool users should in theory simply have to plug in a printer and hit the print button.
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lolwut? This is something Windows has had since... 1995? And Fedora is trumpeting it as a major new feature 15 years later? (That is assuming it works, as evidenced by the "hopefully".)

3D graphics support has also been improved, specifically for Nvidia-based systems using the open source Nouveau Gallium3D driver. Being able to supply users with proper 3D graphics without needing the proprietary Nvidia drivers has long been a goal of most Linux distributors.
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Newsflash: the majority of users don't give a flying f**k whether a driver is proprietary or not, they just want their graphics hardware to work. According to benchmarks, the nVidia proprietary driver is between 5 - 15 times faster than Gallium3D, which begs the question of why anyone would want anything but nVidia's driver.
 
milomak said:
have you got any empirical evidence that ext4 causes more data loss than any other filesystem
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Not from personal experience but I have seen may threads on Ubuntu forums for one after it was included. I'm not touching it just yet.
 
hawker said:
The new Ubuntu is shaping up to be amazing! Been using it since the Alpha releases and I really think it is the most solid release yet!
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Well I will be locking my development desktop to Ubuntu10.4 and I'm only hearing rave reviews for this LTS. Personaly I've switched to Arch Linux at home but I want to wait for 10.04 before I decided to update my wifes work PC - got her on 7.10 and never a problem for her (or me as I have to maintain her PC).
 
MickZA said:
For all Fedora fans who had a heart attack when they read this - relax, the default F13 Alpha desktop is still Gnome with KDE as a alternate download.

Don't know what the author was smoking but he might have been confused by F13-Alpha-i686-Live being a DVD iso whereas the KDE version is CD.

This info comes to you courtesy of F13 Live and Axxess uncapped:)
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Thanks. I was wondering about this.
 
ponder said:
Not from personal experience but I have seen may threads on Ubuntu forums for one after it was included. I'm not touching it just yet.
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i am running ext4 on 3 computers since about this time last year. no data loss to speak of. in fact the only data loss i've ever experienced was on an ext3 partition.

can't say i've seen it being mentioned on gentoo, arch or debian forums with any recurring regularity.
 
If only more corporate environments supported Linux desktops. Stability has been the big win for me when using Linux, all my home PCs are on Ubuntu. Every company I do business with is on Windoze so for now I cannot get rid of Windows and all its virus related issues.
 
ponder said:
Not from personal experience but I have seen may threads on Ubuntu forums for one after it was included. I'm not touching it just yet.
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I've been using EXT4 since November last year on 2 PCs, without issues.

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