[wplug] Fedora 21 is suppose to be released today

Zachary Uram netrek at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 07:52:31 EST 2014


Try Debian unstable.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Justin Smith <justin at adminix.net> wrote:

> Speaking of graphics drivers...
>
> When I was studying for my RHCSA earlier this year, I tried switching to
> Fedora since it was obviously fairly close to what I was studying at the
> time. I ended up falling back to OpenSUSE because the guy who was
> maintaining the Catalyst package on RPMFusion abandoned it, and I
> unfortunately need that to play games on Steam. Did they ever find another
> maintainer?
>
> Supposedly, Catalyst will be less of a requirement once AMD makes progress
> on its new open source driver. If I remember correctly, the new open source
> driver and Catalyst will use the same kernel driver, and Catalyst will be
> reduced to a binary, user-space blob.
>
> (Of course, I also read that this new driver will only be used for future
> generations of AMD products, so I may have to pick up a new GPU down the
> line.)
>
>
> *Justin Smith*
> GNU/Linux System Administrator
>
> /"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
> not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius
> will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the
> world is full of educated derelicts."/
>
> /-Calvin Coolidge/
>
>
> > Any other Fedora masochists (I mean users) in the group?
> >
> > For those not in the know, and at the risk of starting a flame war,
> Fedora is the incubator for the Redhat commercial linux distribution.  All
> the newer stuff and the cutting edge patches that go into the RHEL product
> are tested on the unsuspecting Internet crowd through the Fedora project.
> We get subjected to stuff like systemd, pulse-audio, nouveau, wayland, the
> latest "broken" GNome desktop, and other untested, undocumented packages
> guaranteed to drive coffee drinkers insane.  Another "feature" of Fedora is
> their hardlined insistence on adhering to the GPL mandates.  The good news
> is that all the great software we love that doesn't meet Fedora's "intense"
> licensing standards can be found in the rpmfusion repository.  Want to use
> stuff with a BSD or MIT license, or stuff written by programmers who don't
> worship Stallman?  Well, it's probably not delivered directly with Fedora,
> but can quickly be found in the rpmfusion repository.
> >
> > I'm sure it reads like I'm down on Fedora, but I'm actually very anxious
> for F21 to be released.  Aside from getting to see how many times the
> installation procedure breaks and needs to be redone (a common theme for me
> since FC8), I'm looking forward to the 3.x release of the FlightGear flight
> simulator...and even wanting to test out wayland, but I'm sure I'll have to
> wait six months or so before wayland is supported in the proprietary NVidia
> drivers.  However, if like me, you NEED OpenGL, then what are you gonna
> use? nouvea?  I THINK NOT!
> >
> > I complain about it, but in my mind Fedora is really the only game in
> town for my needs: bleeding edge code, literally thousands and thousands of
> packages I might need, and quickly integrated support for newer hardware.
> >
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