Ramble On

July 3, 2011

Despite all the efforts to make Fedora 15 easier and more user friendly, making power users kind of unhappy by removing functionality and features, it doesn’t look ready yet (please, remove more features! :D).

I installed Fedora 15 and it’s running in Gnome fall back mode (no hw acceleration here, so it’s OK). First thing I tried was updating my system: Applications > System Tools > Software Update; and it didn’t work. The error about a failing transaction was quite cryptic to me, and I didn’t know how to fix it (I tried to update several times but it didn’t work).

Running yum from a console works as expected, though. Fortunately nobody thought that yum had to be removed because some weird reason!

This is my first experience with Gnome fall back mode, and it feels less crippled than the regular Gnome interface. Too bad the drag-to-maximize thing doesn’t work in fall back mode.

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November 20, 2010

I Voted

It’s Fedora elections time, and we need your help!

If you’re a Fedora contributor and eligible for voting (you have a FAS account and you’re in at least one non-CLA group, and Ambassador member in case of FAmSCo), you may read this post (it may help you, specially if this is your first election), and vote!

I must confess I didn’t vote in F12 elections. I didn’t know the people running for the board and I didn’t understand the functions of the different committees. I was a newbie and it was a great responsibility!

If you feel that way, I highly recommend you reading the synopsis of all the candidates in the voting page, and think what do you want for the future of Fedora.