Didn’t know it’s only a month to the final release. I guess we all learn something new everyday It’ll be awesome, and I’ll get even more of my Windows using friends using open source software.

As for the binary support, I disagree. A widely adopted, standardized binary support system is required for any OS to be mainstream. I think the adoption of Mac and Ubuntu is already showing that, despite Ubuntu’s poor marketing. The fact that binaries often have to be released on a per-distribution basis is certainly a negative.

As for marketing Linux for organizations and schools, it’s actually happening. Let’s hope it kicks off. The fact that Linux is entering the “ultra-portable laptop” market at speed is awesome The Asus EeePC is just the beginning! What I love is that Microsoft can’t compete in the market either because of their resource hungry OS. And with Mac being so expensive, Linux should really take the cake

as for KDE 4, it is the default KDE in F9, and it’s stable and nice now. Unfortunately it’s still not the KDE 4 that everyone is waiting for, KDE 4.1 is!!

yea, it has a quite awesome speed and stability now. And it’s not surprising either, because it’s just one month to final release!

It is definitely a shame. Binary support is not a really big issue, just the marketing is the thing that lets linux down. If they would market for it better, especially for organizations and schools, I think it will get itself fitted better!!

Anyway, as for Fedora 9, I’m glad they’ve adopted PackageKit. Any attempt to make Linux software installation easier is welcome. As for Firefox, I’ve recently tried it too and it seems fairly stable to me, and I’m actually quite surprised they keep delaying release candidates, though I’m sure they have some reason. I read somewhere that Fedora were considering shipping KDE 4 by default as it conforms to the idea of shipping the bleeding edge technology Linux has to offer. Did that happen?

Well, another couple of things that are worth mentioning are ext 4 support and encrypted file system support. Apparently, ext 4 is 15-20% faster which is awesome. Imagine that, and the ~40% speed improvement KDE 4 has to offer. Then add that to the security of an encrypted file system is nothing short of brilliance.

It’s a shame that a few issues such as marketing, binary support and OS installation continue to let Linux down.

for that matter, as I said, yum installs i386 or any available architecture if the best possible structure is not available.

You can, however, change this policy to ‘All’ or ‘Best’ depending on your likings but I prefer to have one architecture rather than having multiple architectures on one system

after all, it’s linux, so it’s adjustable!

In fact, there is no real reason to run x86_64 on a desktop/laptop at all unless you are taking advantage of the large memory enchancements (8gb+) or running Oracle Applications.

There is a small speed boost, but it will not be noticeable on current hardware (reminds me of the people raving about getting 60-100fps in games when the human eye can only register 30)

Many things simply do not work well currently on x86_64, like Flash (though that’s hardly the distributions fault).

I see no reason so far why I should change from F8, which works fantastic for me, to a (as always in the first 3 to 4 month) buggy F9.

Anyway … Good luck with F9