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Fedora 8 notes

The Fedora project is about to release a new version of the Fedora operating system – version 8 (its not called Fedora Core anymore, not since version 7, for all those who were living under a rock for the last year. Yes, I mean you Bryan and Chris). I’ve been running the last test release – test 3 – for about two weeks now, and I wanted to mention a few of the things I’ve noticed about Fedora 8. Which is mostly rants about stuff that doesn’t work as advertised, but aside from that Fedora 8 is a very solid release.

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Everything is OK!

K3B is a very good CD/DVD mastering and burning application. I may often be heard to claim that it is the best (hands down) application for such tasks considering any available such application on any platform, even though recently I’ve mostly used Nautilus CD Burner and Brasero1.

The last version of K3B is as expected better then ever, but it contains this interesting idiosyncrasy: Every time you start the application, a non-modal transient dialog box pops up from the bottom of the interface, saying this:
Everything is OK!

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  1. The first is much simpler and enough for most burning jobs, in addition to enjoy a very good integration with my current main desktop environment – GNOME, and the later I’m trying out and comparing to K3B and at this point I can conclude that it has some nice features that K3B could do worse then adopt [↩]

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מונופול זה גרוע בכל צד

במקרה שזפה את עיני הידיעה המשעשעת הבאה: בעקבות באג בחלונות ויסטה של מיקרוסופט, משתמשי ויסטה בעיירה לונד בשבדיה נשארו בלי אינטרנט. האשמה נופלת ספק על מיקרוסופט וספק על חברת האינטרנט המקומי שסרבה לשנות את התצורה של שרתי הלינוקס שלהם כדי לפתור (באופן זמני) את הבעיה.

המאמר המקורי (בשבדית ?) כאן

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