2nd of November Fedora 14 Laughlin had been officially released! I adore Fedora, Red Hat’s community Linux distribution very much. My machines and server are using it. But, many users said that it’s not a Linux for beginners. I don’t really agree with that statement. Nowadays, most Linux distributions and the newest version of Fedora, Fedora 14 Laughlin, is very easy to use as well. All features are almost the same, if you explore more and gets use to it.
I had a post about Fedora 14 Laughlin new features and stuff. However, I would like to test see what the latest and greatest Fedora could do personally. So I put it on my reliable laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1501 which is using Fedora 13 ever since. This 2007-vintage notebook is powered by a 1.8GHz AMD Turion 64 x2 processor and has 2GBs of RAM. So i decided today to upgrade it into the latest Fedora 14.
Normally, i will recommend users to backup anything which is important first then only upgrade it. All my working files are stored in my external hard drive. I had no obligation to backup. The upgrade was successful, it took me about 5 hours time to download the latest released and upgrading it. Well, i must say it was a success blast off.
In addition, all of my applications and files was untouchable. Nothing had been deleted. My VirtualBox, Oracle’s desktop virtualization program, Jupiter, Ailurus, OpenOffice, SeLinux, Firefox 4 was in its usual behaviour. Music, videos and everything was same as always. Oh, I’m using gnome shell, and it turned out great. The upgrades was successful too. I’m using the all new gnome shell now. Once it was up, Fedora 14 basically worked fine.
There are also two new applications that Fedora 14 shipped with. These are Clementine, an easy-to-use music player and manager and Gnome Gmail, a GMail GNOME desktop client. I do not had both applications installed, that why the upgrades does not included both applications.
Lastly, I very happy with the upgrades. How about you?
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I’m a Malaysian, my name is Jon Loh (jonboy60) living in Kuala Lumpur and working in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Jonboy60.com is a blog magazine about Linux and other open source softwares. All about to a daily jobs or real life experiences I had since the year 2002 administrating Linux and Windows server in a hosting company. Basically i will be offering Linux tips, howto, tricks, latest news and tutorial. Contact Me for Career opportunities, business offers, Linux solutions for business or home, web and email server solutions, Linux consulting and expertise requests. Email to me on jonboy60{@}gmail.com. The site I’m running is VenCouture.com – Malaysia Online Fashion Shopping Boutique, VenCouture. We sell fashion clothes, sexy lingeries, baby clothing and etc.
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