{"id":219,"date":"2009-01-06T09:28:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T17:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2009-07-11T03:59:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T03:59:48","slug":"fedora-10-lacks-wow-appeal-opensolaris-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/fedora-10-lacks-wow-appeal-opensolaris-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 10 lacks “wow” appeal; OpenSolaris 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

I upgraded one of my machines to Fedora 10 last month, and for me, this release lacks the “wow” appeal that other releases have had. A minor annoyance is that the keyboard repeat delay [is broken](https:\/\/bugzilla.redhat.com\/show_bug.cgi?id=475747) for me and so far, there is no fix other than disabling keyboard repeat. On the plus side, Fedora 10 includes OpenOffice.org 3 and other [new](http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Releases\/10\/ReleaseSummary) [features](http:\/\/www.heise-online.co.uk\/open\/features\/print\/112093). Be sure to check out the [Common Issues](http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Bugs\/F10Common) people have experienced with Fedora 10.<\/p>\n

The other day, a co-worker handed me an OpenSolaris 11 Live CD. I booted it, expecting to be underwhelmed like I was with the Solaris 10 JavaDesktop. I was pleasantly surprised, however. Sun’s “Nimbus” GNOME theme knocks the socks off of the boring Fedora window manager themes. The experience felt like I was running Linux. It was responsive, supported my newer hardware, and the system was built with GNU utilities on the command line so I get my favourite options to ‘ls’, ‘grep’, etc. It supported my NVidia card out-of-the box, and had Compiz eye-candy as an option. The only thing I missed (in my superficial test) was the familiar ‘yum’ and ‘rpm’ for package management. I suspect that if I used it from day to day, I’d find other things I miss. Does OpenSolaris support encrypted file systems? Does it have as much optional software as I can get with Fedora Extras?<\/p>\n

I’ll keep my eye on [OpenSolaris](http:\/\/www.opensolaris.com\/) a little more closely in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I upgraded one of my machines to Fedora 10 last month, and for me, this release lacks the “wow” appeal that other releases have had. A minor annoyance is that the keyboard repeat delay [is broken](https:\/\/bugzilla.redhat.com\/show_bug.cgi?id=475747) for me and so far, there is no fix other than disabling keyboard repeat. On the plus side, Fedora … <\/p>\n

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