{"id":18039,"date":"2013-04-19T00:24:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T22:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18039"},"modified":"2013-04-19T00:24:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T22:24:18","slug":"fedora-19-alpha-is-a-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/19\/fedora-19-alpha-is-a-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 19 alpha is a Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Fedora 19 alpha version <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.fedoraproject.org\/pipermail\/devel-announce\/2013-April\/001140.html\">will be released next Tuesday<\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been busy with other things recently, so that was a surprising announcement for me. Is it that time of the year again? \u00a0Apparently. \u00a0We are still a good <a href=\"https:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Releases\/19\/Schedule\">three month away<\/a> from the final release, but it&#8217;s still good to hear that there is progress. \u00a0Looking over the <a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Releases\/19\/FeatureList\">features for this release<\/a>, I find these interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Features\/BIND10\">Bind 10<\/a> &#8211; completely rewritten from scratch, and bringing both DNS and DHCP in one handy package.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Features\/DevelopersAssistant\">Developers Assistant<\/a> &#8211; the description is rather vague, but overall it sounds useful.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Features\/KScreen\">KScreen<\/a> &#8211; finally I won&#8217;t have to reconfigure the second monitor every time I reboot the laptop.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Features\/MATE-Desktop-1.6\">MATE Desktop<\/a> &#8211; I loved Gnome 2. \u00a0If Gnome 3 and KDE 4 won&#8217;t get significantly better by the time of the release, I will probably switch to MATE.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Features\/NodeJS\">Node.js<\/a> &#8211; I wanted to play around with it for a while now, but never got the time to get it on my box. \u00a0Maybe now I will.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Features\/Php55\">PHP 5.5<\/a> &#8211; new PHP is better PHP.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Features\/ReplaceMySQLwithMariaDB\">Replace MySQL with MariaDB<\/a> &#8211; that&#8217;s an interesting move. I wonder how much trouble this will create with MySQL still being on the servers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Features\/Ruby_2.0.0\">Ruby 2.0<\/a> &#8211; Similar to Node.js, this just makes it so much easier to try new things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, this looks like a busy release.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Fedora 19 alpha version will be released next Tuesday. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been busy with other things recently, so that was a surprising announcement for me. Is it that time of the year again? \u00a0Apparently. \u00a0We are still a good three month away from the final release, but it&#8217;s still good to hear that there is progress. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/19\/fedora-19-alpha-is-a-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fedora 19 alpha is a Go<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,62],"tags":[2351],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-technology","tag-fedora-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28224,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/15\/fedora-27\/","url_meta":{"origin":18039,"position":0},"title":"Fedora 27","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Fedora 27, the latest and greatest version, has been released.\u00a0 As always, a lot of work went into putting it all together.\u00a0 But for personally, the new releases has stopped being exciting a long time ago.\u00a0 My desktop needs have been satisfied for years.\u00a0 All I need is MATE Desktop\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fedora 27","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Fedora-27-500x212.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11980,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/02\/fedora-13-name-suggestions\/","url_meta":{"origin":18039,"position":1},"title":"Fedora 13 name suggestions","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"After a recent release of Fedora 12, the attention is starting to focus on Fedora 13. \u00a0And, as it is usually, the work starts with the name. \u00a0Here are the suggested and approved names for the next release of Fedora distribution: Botany Gloriana Goddard Langstrom Loana Manfredi Truro The Fedora\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11193,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/06\/ubuntu-fedora-release-party\/","url_meta":{"origin":18039,"position":2},"title":"Ubuntu \/ Fedora release party","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Theodotos sent me a message, letting me know of the upcoming Ubuntu \/ Fedora release party that will take place in Frederick University on May 17, 2008. 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