(A few days ago, the blogosphere is abuzz with attacks on James Gosling for a comment he made at a conference. The Ruby people was particularly vicious.)

Curt Hibbs: UPDATE: It turns out that’s not precisely what he said… close, but enough of a difference for me to retract what I’ve said. Jump to the end for more…

UPDATE: Bill Venners just posted a transcript, which was not available before. Reading the actual transcript shows a much more reasonable point of view than was implied by the slightly inaccurate “soundbite”.

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on March 24, 2006 8:05:07 AM CST #

I've heard praises for the new release of Fedora Core—Fedora Core 5—released 4 days ago. So I decided to be an early adopter of this release. I backed up everything and started with my usual routine of trying to do an upgrade first, if that fails, a fresh install.

Well, the upgrade worked. I just rebooted to the Fedora Core 5 DVD and answered a few questions to kick off the installation process. The screen said it will take 70 minutes. I waited for 5 minutes to see if it the prediction was accurate. It was. So I went to bed. When I got up this morning, the installation is complete. Reboot. Fixed X configuration (I was using the nVidia driver, which never upgraded well.) And I'm here, Firefox 1.5, Native Eclipse, even my hand installed Qemu. Printing worked. The internet worked. Everything. So I'm really happy.

I'll fill you in more with my experiences in a week or two.

Here's a couple of screenshots:

This one is for Kevin's amusement:

Interesting tidbits from the release notes:

• Geronimo, the Apache J2EE server, is included in FC5
• .NET support through Mono
• LinuxThreads is gone. NPTL has completely taken over
• Everything is compiled with -fstack-protector to thwart buffer overflow attacks
• Screencast with istanbul

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on March 24, 2006 7:35:10 AM CST #