In a recent interview, Linus Torvalds himself said that he uses Fedora 9 on most of his computers. His reason? He wants it to be easy to install and keep up to date. That speaks a lot for Fedora – Linus’ thinking is that he would rather be working on the kernel (That’s kinda what he does…) than wrestling with the OS that he uses.
According to the Fedora Project’s Schedule, version 10 is set to be released sometime today. You can view a full feature list for version 10 if you like, but here are the ones that stood out to me:
- Better Printing – Improve management and handling of printers
- Better Start-up – Streamline the graphical startup
- Better Webcam Support – Improved support for webcams
- Faster Start-up – Decrease the amount of time it takes to start and stop Fedora
- Gnome 2.24 – Re-base Fedora to Gnome 2.24
This release hasn’t been nearly as publicized as Ubuntu’s 8.10 release (at least in the news I’ve been exposed to), but it has some of the same features/updates that Ubuntu included. If that is any indication, Fedora 10 will be a very nice release. As soon as it is available, I plan to download and install it to give it a good workout.
Jonathan is a self-proclaimed geek who likes pretty much anything tech-related. He is especially into Linux, but is interested in Apple and Microsoft tech as well. Jonathan is also into a little bit of gaming - he owns a PS3 and a Wii, but with his limited budget only owns a handful of games for both consoles.
For money, Jonathan works at a large engineering firm. He works in a datacenter as part of a group of 3 managing about 200 servers (and growing!), most Microsoft, some Linux and about half are virtualized using VMware.
I have a question I have Fedora 10 on my hp laptop can you install itunes on it
Unfortunately Apple won’t create a Linux version of iTunes, so it can’t run on it natively. The only thing I know of is to install Windows inside a VM using either VMware or Virtualbox and run iTunes there.