[ale] Fedora 15

[Wolf Halton]

I am looking forward to seeing gnome3.  My school computers, running 
VMWare over XP produce an alert that Gnome3 does not work with my 
virtual video cards, so they revert to a strange and ugly gnome2.

On 05/25/2011 02:12 AM, Michael Trausch wrote:
>
> I really like GNOME 3; aside from a few (minor) bugs, it is quite 
> nice. I could learn to use it daily, on the right base. I had to 
> remove Fedora, though. I couldn't be productive with it. Fedora is 
> strangely fresh, but I can't get over the package manager. It is very 
> slow (could just be my perception), and I found a bug either in the 
> package manager or the F15 repository, I don't know which. (Sadly, I 
> did not save the output, and I can't remember what I was trying to 
> install, but it failed miserably).
>
> --
> Sent from my phone... a G2 running CM7 nightlies!
>
> On May 24, 2011 11:59 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > OK. Update finished and now I can play with this thing.
> >
> > Gnome 3 is kind of slicker than I thought. It will generate new 
> desktops on
> > the fly as needed. The multi-hand stuff was wrong. Maybe a docs 
> error. The
> > usability icon is parked on the top bar and allows for easy access 
> to things
> > like high-contrast, zoom, large text and other goodies. The alt-f1 
> is the
> > key stroke to access the activities area.
> >
> > It is quite different but very slick. Unlike other UI changes, this 
> doesn't
> > make me think Apple is going to sue. It is NOTHING like windows 7 
> from the
> > few wretched tinkerings I saw at microcenter.
> >
> > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >> Upgrading laptop to fedora 15 and noticed that openoffice was 
> replaced with
> >> libreoffice. Oracle really pissed off a lot of people.
> >> Also I actually read the fedora docs and realized that gnome3 
> effectively
> >> requires a two handed user. The active spot to launch applications 
> requires
> >> both alt key and left mouse simultaneously to use. What was gnome devel
> >> thinking?
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > --
> > James P. Kinney III
> >
> > As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
> > consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as 
> they
> > please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
> > - *2011 Noam Chomsky*
>
>
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