Linux distro review: Fedora Workstation 32
'Today's Linux distro review is one I've been wanting to do for quite some time—Fedora Workstation. Fedora is one of the heavyweight desktop distros of the Linux world, with a vibrant community and a strong presence at every open source convention I've ever attended. (Remember physically attending events? Ars remembers.) I never felt particularly drawn to Fedora myself, because it's a bleeding-edge distro—one targeted to the very newest software, possibly at the expense of stability. That's not what I personally want in an operating system—I fix broken things professionally; I'd prefer not to fix them personally any more than I have to. But as one of the few distros using the next-generation Wayland display server by default, Fedora made me very curious indeed. Although the screenshots taken throughout this review are of virtual machines, my first installation of Fedora Workstation (ever!) was bare metal, on the HP Dragonfly Elite G1.' -- source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/linux-distro-review-fedora-workstati... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Wed, 20 May 2020 10:49:12 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
(Remember physically attending events? Ars remembers.)
For those unfamiliar with an old US ad campaign ... <https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepperidge-farm-remembers>.
I never felt particularly drawn to Fedora myself, because it's a bleeding-edge distro—one targeted to the very newest software, possibly at the expense of stability.
Pretty up-to-date versions of a couple of apps that interest me, too: <https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/blender>, <https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/inkscape>.
I never felt particularly drawn to Fedora myself, because it's a bleeding-edge distro—one targeted to the very newest software,...
Pretty up-to-date versions of a couple of apps that interest me, too:
I installed Fedora32 yesterday as I was trying to compile an OCaml version 4.10 based application that needed some bleeding edge dependencies. I found the dnf<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNF_(software)> (Dandified YUM) package manager was nice to use. I noticed with OCaml they list over 100 distros<https://ocaml.org/docs/install.html#Available-versions> and the version of OCaml that is provided in their repositories. It seems that they get their data from https://repology.org/ It may be one way to get a rough idea of which distros are bleeding edge and which are more conservative, plus. Also, if you scroll down, which repositories don't contain the package you are after. Some examples: https://repology.org/project/ocaml/versions https://repology.org/project/python/versions https://repology.org/project/blender/versions cheers, Ian.
On Wed, 20 May 2020 08:06:10 +0000, Ian Stewart wrote:
It seems that they get their data from https://repology.org/
It may be one way to get a rough idea of which distros are bleeding edge and which are more conservative, plus. Also, if you scroll down, which repositories don't contain the package you are after.
Some examples:
2.83 isn’t even final yet, and it’s listed for a number of distros -- maybe just two distro groupings if you look at the connections between them. I had a look for this package of mine <https://repology.org/project/python:dbussy/versions> that has made it into Debian. And I see the Arch version is already in use by another package <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/discordrp-mpris-git/>. Guess that means I have to give some thought to API stability from now on...
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