What's new in Fedora 14 (The H)

[Posted November 4, 2010 by jake]

The H takes Fedora 14 for a test drive and finds it a little thin on new features. There is, of course, the usual pile of "up-to-the-minute" versions of various packages. "Some Fedora users will also feel the benefits of an update, with Fedora 14 including newer versions of many applications. Version 14 includes hundreds of enhancements and bug fixes not explicitly mentioned above the new features to be found in OpenOffice 3.3 are just one example of many. Objectively speaking, Laughlin contains significantly fewer enhancements than previous versions. The likely culprit is the end of the development phase of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, which has kept many of the Fedora developers employed by Red Hat busy over recent months."

What's new in Fedora 14 (The H)

Posted Nov 4, 2010 22:14 UTC (Thu) by hadess (subscriber, #24252) [Link]

RHEL 6? Not really. If you're missing features on the Fedora 14 desktop, that's because we were already working on GNOME 3 when the need for a GNOME 2.32 release came up.

What's new in Fedora 14 (The H)

Posted Nov 5, 2010 8:59 UTC (Fri) by mjthayer (guest, #39183) [Link] (2 responses)

Hundreds of enhancements and bug fixes and not many major new features? I hate to say it, but I like the sound of that.

What's new in Fedora 14 (The H)

Posted Nov 5, 2010 12:10 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link] (1 responses)

Sometimes, not having any major new feature is a major new feature. Is that what you are trying to say?

What's new in Fedora 14 (The H)

Posted Nov 5, 2010 13:46 UTC (Fri) by mjthayer (guest, #39183) [Link]

Nicely put.

What's new in Fedora 14 (The H)

Posted Nov 5, 2010 14:32 UTC (Fri) by Zizzle (guest, #67739) [Link] (3 responses)

Of course Fedora looks boring compared to the grand posturing coming out of Shuttleworth on throwing away most of the community stack in Gnome Shell and X.org.

A PR win for Ubuntu despite it all being vapor so far?

What's new in Fedora 14 (The H)

Posted Nov 5, 2010 17:49 UTC (Fri) by nteon (subscriber, #53899) [Link] (2 responses)

i would say a PR win for Fedora.

What's new in Fedora 14 (The H)

Posted Nov 11, 2010 20:05 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link] (1 responses)

You didn't see the comment by the Fedora graphics team that a Wayland backend is likely to be an (optional) part of F15?

What's new in Fedora 14 (The H)

Posted Nov 29, 2010 10:15 UTC (Mon) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

Point is that THEIR announcement wasn't major news...