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by mattdm 9y ago
This page is really full of errors. Please don't spread it.
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by mattdm 9y ago
As far as I can see, that's a configuration- or user-specific problem. I haven't seen any reports. Firefox (or, more technically, "the default browser") must work in order to meet our release criteria.
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Fedora 26 Workstation and Beyond(blogs.gnome.org)
4 points by mattdm 9y ago|0 comments
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by mattdm 10y ago
Oh hey look, there is a [Test Day]( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2017-04-06_AnacondaB... ) scheduled for tomorrow (April 6, 2017) to shake out bugs in the new interface for F26.
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by mattdm 10y ago
I can see that. The overall message, though, is people want less negative impact from upgrades , and there are multiple ways to address that, of which LTS and rolling-release are only two of the possibilities.
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by mattdm 10y ago
I actually _did_ several months ago (with a desktop and developer-audience focus): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12703836
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by mattdm 10y ago
There's basically two ways to do advanced partitioning. (Of course, there's a "just do it" automated option too.) 1. I understand about disks, volumes, partitions, filesystems, and I want to build it all up. 2. I have go
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by mattdm 10y ago
Doing an LTS release is every expensive, and since the bulk of Fedora is done by community volunteers rather than 9-to-5 packagers, it's not something we can really fairly ask. One of the funny things we often get is "Fedora shoul
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by mattdm 10y ago
So, we are working on this, not just with Flatpack, but with a broad initiative we call "Modularity". (I know that's not the best name, but naming things is famously one of two hard problems in CS¹.) The big problem in operat
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by mattdm 10y ago
Update: I just upgraded my main workstation, which is heavily customized and has a lot of random stuff installed. Took 26 minutes and 40 seconds from the time I started until I was back in Firefox and able to tweet about it. About 5 minutes
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by mattdm 10y ago
1. We're almost certainly going to keep the aggressive kernel updates. It's very expensive to maintain a long-term kernel fork with bugfixes, and users benefit from the constantly-rolling hardware enablement. That said, we are wor
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by mattdm 10y ago
http://mattdm.org/email — but, really, comments in public are more valuable to the project overall.
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by mattdm 10y ago
I'm sure there are some things that could be done better. In particular, DNF could do with better completion of interrupted transactions — the session dying is only one possible interruption.
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by mattdm 10y ago
This isn't really DNF specific — it can happen with any package manager. Whenever I run a DNF update that is going to affect X or my GNOME session, I run it in tmux. There's not really a good solution _other_ than that, which is w
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by mattdm 10y ago
LTS: See my comment below on upgrades. It should be minutes, not hours, and although Fedora does update every six months, we overlap intentionally and skip-a-release upgrades are supported. So this, I think, you should have now. Background
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by mattdm 10y ago
Can you be more specific on what "better" might mean to you particularly as a software developer? Some things like "better look and feel" are not very actionable. :)
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by mattdm 10y ago
Snapshots: The ostree-based workstation some people are working on will provide this kind of functionality. We're also looking at providing development environments in containers, for better isolation of updates. App Store: Can you ela
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by mattdm 10y ago
What are the things you appreciate about Solus as a developer? What makes it the best out-of-the-box experience for you?
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by mattdm 10y ago
Absolutely in the works — check out http://flatpak.org/ . The plumbing for this is in F25, although we're not shipping anything that way yet.
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by mattdm 10y ago
Working on it with Wayland. I think this wish, at least, will come true. :)
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by mattdm 10y ago
Like you say, these are all possible today (with the exception of #5, I'm afraid!) but with a lot of hoops. I'm not sure if the recompile/patch of system libraries is a general enough need to make really slick tooling somethi
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by mattdm 10y ago
We're looking at using ostree for something like this. Probably not in F26, but stay tuned.
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by mattdm 10y ago
For whatever it's worth, I just plugged my F25 laptop into my TV via HDMI, and it basically just worked. Sound didn't automatically switch, but I hit the overview key, typed "sound", hit enter, and built-in speakers vs.
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by mattdm 10y ago
The answer we're looking at for this is http://flatpak.org/ . We'll see how it comes out.
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by mattdm 10y ago
Suspend and resume is particularly not easy, as the hardware vendors aren't going to have our needs in mind until we get a much bigger marketshare, making it a gigantic chicken and egg problem. On the other things: the GUI we have (G
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by mattdm 10y ago
We get a lot more people telling us that this would be nice than people willing to step up and do it. :) If we had the latter, I wouldn't be opposed at all to such a Fedora variant. We also make it very easy to make a Fedora Remix whic
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by mattdm 10y ago
Can you elaborate on LTS? Does my answer below about upgrade pain address your concern? On font rendering, we are hampered in some areas by patents. We have made some adjustments starting with F24 (changes to the rendering and improvements
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by mattdm 10y ago
This is a pain point I hear about a lot, usually with the suggestion that we should do LTS or a rolling release. LTS is very expensive — and I think prohibitively so for our volunteer community. It's also at odds with our desire to get
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by mattdm 10y ago
This is an interesting list, and in scanning it quickly, I know we have various people interested in and working on various parts. We definitely recognize that developers are people, and all of these general-desktop-user hardships are hard
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by mattdm 10y ago
What does LTS mean to you? Is it _support_ you want? Is it interfaces not changing for many years? Is it not having to worry about upgrades? Something else?

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