On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 11:51:37AM +0000, Camilo Mesias wrote: > > Is Fedora for developers or what? > > If it is exclusively for developers with the exclusion of general > purpose features such as web browsing, photo management, and > multimedia consumption then I'll have to find a more general purpose > OS. I count myself as a developer but concede that I have a life too > and a general purpose computer has to fit into that as a whole. I believe it is possible to do photo management, web browsing and watching video, even on the current version of Fedora. > > We want to ditch extremely useful, ground-breaking features because of > > "tearing" when scrolling in a browser window? [I do *not* see any of > > those issues incidentally -- maybe you want to check your set-up and > > make sure you're not using non-free drivers] > > Historically there have been plenty of problems like the Firefox > smooth scrolling under compiz bugs (at the time I understood the bugs > to be caused by the difficulties of providing compiz features within > the framework of X, I could be wrong). I last noticed tearing in > fullscreen video on radeon HW... on other hardware I use the nvidia > driver as it's generally better performing than the free one, really > there is no argument here regarding free drivers as a platform for a > multimedia desktop. As much as I love Nouveau's freeness, last time I > checked I couldn't even run gnome shell on it. So in fact you are running non-free drivers. I have none of these problems with the free (Intel) drivers, and the performance is great, certainly more than adequate for web browsing, watching DVDs and video, and a little gaming. > Maybe I'm biased because I overwhelmingly tend to use a command line > for remote machines. What is the use case for remote X applications? > The only thing I can think of that I've personally used this way is > gparted, and I probably could have used fdisk without much effort. With virtualization I have more Linux machines than ever (about 50 in active use at last count). All on my local 1GB network. Consequently I use X to them and to other physical machines _all the time_. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
