Fedora 11 arrives

I can't wait. I pre-ordered my DVD more than a month ago and I'm expecting it to arrive in a week or two. It gives me plenty time to actually read the release notes and see what issues people report in the forums. That's one advantage of being bandwidth/speed impaired. :D

Many of the issues I've seen people report so far, seem to be a result of them not having read the "fine" manual (not that I always do). Most of the more experienced Fedora users and even a few coming from Ubuntu, seem very impressed.

Here's a list of some of the new features: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList

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Here is something important to note:
Does GRUB support Ext4?

There is a patch in Red Hat Bugzilla to handle this. However it is a very invasive patch and has not been merged into GRUB for this release cycle due to lack of time for comprehensive testing and prioritization of other more important fixes. Since Fedora uses LVM by default and GRUB doesn't support that either, in practice you will need to keep using the Ext3 filesystem for the /boot partition. This is the recommended setup and is how Anaconda sets it up by default. To prevent boot issues, Anaconda will not let you format a /boot partition with Ext4.

The Live CD/DVD installer sets up /boot as a separate partition formatted as Ext3. If this behaviour is not what you want, you can use the regular CD/DVD or network boot images.
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Some people feel that this it is a show-stopper. I don't really mind having a ~100MB ext3 /boot partition to keep GRUB happy. I know some other distros have already applied the patch.
 
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Been running it for around a week now (Started running rawhide after the Preview release) and generally seems stable, happy with it.
 
I was thinking about trying this release out but I was wondering if anyone can explain the difference between gnome and kde and xfce? Can you still use the same software? What is it?

Sorry for the stupid question.
 
I'm not sure if it was just my bad luck or if it is the way Ubuntu distros work, but when I tried to install the KDE desktop on my Gnome based release (Jaunty), it was a disaster. I had to re-install everything.

With Fedora I've never had that problem. At one stage I had Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Sugar and Fluxbox all installed at once. I usually install at least two (Gnome and KDE) DEs, simply by doing:
Code: 
yum install @kde-desktop
 
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