[Bradford] Fedora 15

Dick Thomas xpd259 at gmail.com
Tue May 24 18:00:16 UTC 2011


I agree with all that but gnome3i think it's awesome one I took the dive and
used it. Much better then unity by Ubuntu but that's my personal view
On May 24, 2011 4:09 PM, "Alice Kaerast" <kaerast at computergentle.com> wrote:
> The new virtualisation features (BoxGrinder and Spice integration)
> look nice and might be useful for some projects we're working on at
> the moment. Libre Office and Firefox 4 is good, but many of us have
> already added them to Fedora 14 from external repos (and/or are using
> Chrome).
>
> The big feature in Fedora 15 is Gnome 3 which is pretty horrible, and
> isn't something I could deploy to customer machines. It may turn out
> that non-geek users prefer it, but the user interface is a massive
> change from 2.x versions and will take some getting used to and/or
> configuring. For example there's no minimise or maximise options, the
> start menu takes up the entire screen, secondary monitors aren't part
> of a workspace by default, start menu appears just by hovering the
> mouse in the top left of the screen, start menu doesn't actually list
> any software until you then click on the (non-obvious) Applications
> link.
>
> I'll obviously be upgrading my laptop soon, but may well be switching
> to XFCE rather than use Gnome 3.
>
> I'm more interested in the next version of Centos, but I don't expect
> that to come any time soon.
>
> Alice
>
>
>
> On 24 May 2011 15:44, Dick Thomas <xpd259 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Fedora 15 "Lovelock" is released and available for immediate
>> download! http://2tu.us/3cch | Full announcement here: http://2tu.us/3cci
>>
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