Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Manas Alekar wrote: > Are you sure ? The touchpad, function keys ... everything ? Also, is this > with the Sulphur release ? Support has been there right from the Fedora Core 6 release but spotty. Over the last couple of releases, it is much better but still imperfect. Touchpad afaik works. Fu

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-16 Thread Manas Alekar
Are you sure ? The touchpad, function keys ... everything ? Also, is this with the Sulphur release ? Cheers, Manas -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/c

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Manas Alekar wrote: > One more question, totally unrelated to package managers, but relevant. > > When are the major distributions going to start supporting MacBooks ? Fedora already does. Rahul -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-16 Thread Manas Alekar
One more question, totally unrelated to package managers, but relevant. When are the major distributions going to start supporting MacBooks ? ~Manas -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: > > This is one viewpoint I agree with. I used apt on Fedora 3, but > when I switched to Fedora 5, apt had been discontinued, and I was > forced to switch to yum. Seems incorrect. It has been in the repository from early on and don't recall it ever being dropped. http:

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-16 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released > To: "Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List" > *This is not a smart comment.* > Why did Fedora chose to go the yum way instead of using apt with rpm ? Apt > is quite matured. I use Fedora and Debian on a regular basis,

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Manas Alekar wrote: > *This is not a smart comment.* > Why did Fedora chose to go the yum way instead of using apt with rpm ? Apt > is quite matured. I use Fedora and Debian on a regular basis, and somehow, > apt seems way mature than yum. > > I can understand the spirit of doing it again, and doi

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-14 Thread Manas Alekar
*This is not a smart comment.* Why did Fedora chose to go the yum way instead of using apt with rpm ? Apt is quite matured. I use Fedora and Debian on a regular basis, and somehow, apt seems way mature than yum. I can understand the spirit of doing it again, and doing it in python for porting eleg

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Pranav Peshwe wrote: Cool! Are there any improvements in yum ? Sure. Yum performance continues to improve and this release has a much better version. http://skvidal.wordpress.com/page/2/ The specific link is http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/yum-results/

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Nishit Dave wrote: I, for one, would like to see a better way to manage network connections and proxies through a single environmental setting interface. You would have to convert that it a more detailed request for enhancement and file it in http://bugzilla.redhat.com. Rahul -- __

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Pranav Peshwe wrote: Cool! Are there any improvements in yum ? Sure. Yum performance continues to improve and this release has a much better version. http://skvidal.wordpress.com/page/2/ Also you have a yum reinstall option to reinstall packages easily for whatever reasons. The multi-

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-14 Thread Nishit Dave
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Pranav Peshwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cool! > > Are there any improvements in yum ? > The release notes say that the new package manager, PackageKit, which is a replacement for Pirut and Pup has an improved yum as its backend. I, for one, would like to see

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-13 Thread Pranav Peshwe
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Get It: > > http://get.fedoraproject.org/ > > Official Announcement: > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-May/msg7.html > > Press Release: > > http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarc

[PLUG] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, Get It: http://get.fedoraproject.org/ Official Announcement: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-May/msg7.html Press Release: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/fedora9.html Few words from the current Fedora Project Leader, Paul W. Frields: https: