Fedora 12 Is Ready For Primetime

Fedora 12 is release and is now ready for downloading here. Fedora 12 is now promising better web-cam support and improved video codecs. Also listed as major improvements are audio and power management. Some of the minor improvements are listed as better bluetooth, bug reporting, security and virtualization enhancements. I haven't used Fedora in a while and I will be downloading the iso and loading it to a flash drive. Fedora has their own tool for creating USB keys, the LiveUSB Creator. It will work in Linux or a Windows version is available and it is easily the easiest way to create the Fedora Live USB.

Shrinking Windows Partition

When I started this blog my Windows partition was 100GB's. Now I only give it just a tick over 27GB"s. Why you ask? To install Linux. tonight I finished with my install of Debian Lenny complete with wireless. It did take me the better part of two evenings and a lot o command line work but I did learn some things along the way. I plan on sticking with Debian as my main distro. Debian has a lot to offer and I can grow into it for a long time. And let's face it most of the more popular distros are based on Debian anyway. Ubuntu and all of its derivatives, Mepis, AntiX and a host of others are all derived from Debian. That's all for now I still have my favorite game to install along with a few other things.

What Is Yout Favorite Linux Distribution?

On the main page of Distrowatch is a box for their top 100 page rankings by distro. You can filter by 7 days, 30 days etc. I chose 6 months and the top ten as of today are:

1. Ubuntu
2. Fedora
3. Mint
4. openSuse
5. Mandriva
6. Debian
7. PCLinuxOS
8. Puppy
9. Sabayon
10. Arch

I found it interesting that I have tried five from this list. I currently use Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 4, carry Fedora 11 on a USB stick, Mint was one of my early Linux experiences, I carry a USB stick with PCLinuxOS too and have used Puppy for quite a while on an older laptop until finally giving all the hard drive space to AntiX. Linux is just plain fun to use and experiment with. There is definitely a distribution for just about everyone and any task. Try it yourself and see just how many of the top ten you have used