On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Jorge Fábregas jorge.fabregas@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/22/2013 01:52 AM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
but I must admit I'm having trouble keeping up.
You're not alone there! And for me, since I'm still on Fedora 14, there's also GNOME 3!
I will install F18 in the next couple of weeks. I've always used Fedora every 4 releases (that's a new version every 2 years roughly). That means I'll have updates for one year and the next year I'm on my own (thanks to the Remi repo and others I can extend that extra year).
Anyhow, I mention this because indeed this is the VERY first time that I'm feeling like you (having a tough time trying to keep up). I've always used to read the "Release Notes" of all the 3 releases I missed plus the new one I'm about to install and I could keep up. This time I'm facing ALL the new changes you mentioned and, since I'm already feeling overwhelmed, I decided to skip the learning of some new stuff for later:
- I just learned I can disable firewalld and use my iptables scripts
- I can install MATE and face GNOME 3 some time in the future
That's the way I'll be dealing with all of this.
In the end, if someone's a typical home user, who mainly use the web browser and doesn't care how things work behind the scenes, perhaps this won't bother him at all. I'm not like that.
-- Jorge
How on earth are you still running F14. I thought the repos would be closed. I have just started using Fedora after having used *buntu. F17 was fine until i discovered that in fact F18 should have been out before Xmas. I find the 6 month releases counter productive i feel now after 5 years of using linux. Always keen to point out the benefits but i feel that a release is out on a certain date and that's it.
I've switched to a rolling release this week and i'll see how i get on with that. F18 imo isn't worth putting on.
james