After a two month delay, Fedora 18 is finally here. So far, I have been surprised by two things:
- Phasing out of “preupgrade” for “fedup“. Seriously? How’s “fedup –network 18” better than “preupgrade“? Especially, when dealing with desktop users…
- How much new stuff I found in the Release Notes. I didn’t have much time to follow the development process last year, but even without that, I realized that a lot of my knowledge is quite outdated. Specifically: GRUB vs GRUB2 configuration, chkconfig/service vs. systemctl, date/hostname/etc migration to some*ctl scripts, network management (both with NetworkManager and with interface naming changes), and lots more.
And I haven’t even upgraded yet. I wonder what will come next.
P.S.: if you must know, I’ve written a huge rant on the whole Fedora direction, but after page 35 or so it got a little bit out of control, so I deleted it and left you with the above.