Fedora 12 released [LWN.net]

Fedora 12 released

Posted Nov 18, 2009 14:12 UTC (Wed) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)
Parent article: Fedora 12 released

I downloaded the live CD to give it a spin. Quite nice on both a ~1 year old ThinkPad (Intel graphics) and my ~3 year old Compaq laptop (ATI graphics). Very polished, compiz worked fine on both (gotta try out the eye candy). Some things worked that I haven't figured out how to get working with Gentoo, LCD backlight control, extra buttons (volume control/mute, WiFi kill), LED on the WiFi kill switch. Maybe all of this worked w/ Fedora before, but I hadn't looked at Fedora for a very long time.

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Fedora 12 released

Posted Nov 18, 2009 17:50 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

This should have been the case for the past several releases but thanks for your feedback. Always good to hear from more users.

Fedora 12 released

Posted Nov 19, 2009 6:36 UTC (Thu) by jmorris42 (subscriber, #2203) [Link]

> This should have been the case for the past several releases...

Maybe it should but my Fedora on Thinkpad experience is not so good. I have an X31 and suspend has been so spotty over both F10 and F11 that my use pattern has been close all apps before suspend. If it wakes up, great I saved the boot and login time and if it goes FOOM! no data is lost and only a couple of seconds of time. Depending on the kernel of the week the odds of FOOM! have ranged as bad as 100% to as good as 20%.

F12 will go on after it gets a few weeks for the worst of the bugs to get sorted out. Sorry for not being a better test subject but this machine has to work. If the data loss bugs are finally fixed on the HPT374 driver (F8-F11 at least) I'll install at home this weekend.