Talk:Fedora Linux/Archive 2009

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RPMforge Merge proposal

This is a formality, follow a deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/RPMforge‎. I'll leave it uo to you to decide the best way forwards. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 18:28, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Update: Since there has been no response either way, I've added RPM fusion to the merge proposal too (and this has been on the RPM fusion for some time). If I hear nothing for another week, I'll go ahead and merge, making sure all the information is copied over. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 11:42, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Removed server link

Fedora confirms: Our servers were breached (SecuriTeam Blogs)

This could be useful as a reference for something, meanwhile I've removed the link. -- Fluteflute ^Talk ^{Contributions} 17:52, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

disk space?

Hey guys, what are the disk space requirements for a Fedora 10 Live CD??? The only information I can find from fedoraproject.org is that the DVD requires up to 9 GB. This is useful information for someone looking to install it, is it not? I think my current Linux partition only has like 5 GB or something like that, will that be too small? Point of the question is that I think this information should be on wikipedia... (or at the very least, on fedoraproject.org, which it currently is not)71.116.98.136 (talk) 16:34, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

It depends on architechture and what hardware you have, but it should be more that 5gb ideally. The OS comes to about 3-4 or so and then there is temp files, swap space (512mb-2gb usually) and user docs.Contributions/86.16.153.191 (talk) 17:38, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

kernel 2.6.29-4

I was told that "-4" only means the kernel was compiled four times... So this is not really revelent for the kernel version. --Vspaceg (talk) 12:12, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

New Design in Fedora Core 4?

The article talks about the bluecurve theme being introduced with Fedora Core 4, but when looking at those screenshots, the designs are quiet similar, showing a much bigger difference compared with Fedora Core 2.

Fedora Core 2	Fedora Core 3	Fedora Core 4

The Fedora Core 2 screenshot, from what I can tell, shows the KDE version of the desktop - not the GNOME desktop. That means you can't really compare that with the other two. ~~ [ジャム]^[t - c] 08:17, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Nope, that was the old Gnome style 78.52.134.70 (talk)

Plus, if you read the article clearly, you'll see that it says that Clearlooks was introduced in FC4, which was inspired by Bluecurve. I think you'll find that previous versions of FC (and before that, Red Hat Linux) used the Bluecurve theme. ~~ [ジャム]^[t - c] 08:19, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

That IS GNOME in all 3 pics, in the pic of fc2 thats just what older versions of gnome looked like (they are all from the gnome 2.x series though). Contributions/86.16.153.191 (talk) 17:43, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Nope, this pic with Fedora 2 is how KDE looked like. Other 2 are Gnome desktops. Dreamer_ (talk) 19:51, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Multics family

Moved to Talk:Mac OS X

– Subsection is Talk:Mac OS X#Multics Family --Tothwolf (talk) 19:23, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

I propose that we re-classify this article under 'OS family: Multics' in the info box, for the reason that Unix is based on Multics.[1] MFNickster (talk) 04:00, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Please keep discussion on this in a single place, specifically Talk:Linux#Multics_family -- Limulus (talk) 07:46, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

This discussion began in Talk:Mac OS X. AlistairMcMillan (talk) 18:38, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Fedora Release Timeline

Could someone recreate that PNG as SVG, so it is easily changeable? The picture far behind schedule by now. --Polemon (talk) 14:45, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

KDE a "default" user interface?

Unlike other operating systems that clearly give you a choice between GNOME and KDE on the same download page, such as OpenSUSE or Mandriva, Fedora's default interface is GNOME and the KDE version is on a separate download page and is called an "alternate desktop environment" by Fedora itself. Fedora (Gnome) is simply just called "Fedora" and Fedora (KDE) is specifically called "Fedora KDE". Should they really both be listed as the "default user interface" in the article? Kiwisoup (talk) 22:57, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

I think by default, it means the desktop managers that are included in the official releases that you can option to have. You are given an option to install either KDE or GNOME during your installation. I only see a Live CD option for Fedora KDE, and the mirrors for full .iso files don't specify KDE or GNOME. Also, there are many other desktop environments a user can choose. For example, XFCE is included on the Fedora Spins page. I'm sure you can also forgo installing a graphical desktop and later install whatever one you want. Esox id^t 20:49, 13 November 2009 (UTC)