I’ve installed what I’m pretty sure will be the final version of FC6 (I checked the SHA1SUMs from a listing at an official mirror). Here are my first impressions:
Mono seems to be totally jacked:
[gabe@office ~]$ tomboy
Segmentation fault[gabe@office ~]$ mono -V
Segmentation fault[gabe@office ~]$ mcs
Segmentation fault[gabe@office ~]$ sqlsharp
Segmentation fault[gabe@office ~]$ gmcs
Segmentation fault[gabe@office ~]$ echo “Segmentation fault”
Segmentation fault
O.K. that last one isn’t that disturbing, but the others look pretty messed. I’m guessing they didn’t build it with a “–with-xen_opt=yes” flag. I’m running this box on Xen, but if you don’t, I’m guessing Mono would work just fine. That brings me to my next point…
When installing, it has an option for Xen related tools. I selected them to be installed. I assumed it would install a few userland tools for monitoring and creating Xen instances. I further assumed it would install an additional Xen kernel and add that option to GRUB. To my surprise, it only installed a Xen kernel. This would be the first time that any distro, that I’ve run, has done this out of the box. I’ve stated before that I thought this would eventually be the norm. Please note that this is not the default behavior.
One major plus is that the bubbles are gone. If you used FC5 and have good taste or a sense of style, you know what I’m talking about. The DNA strands are much, much better, but still, they are not great.
The new font (DejaVu) looks pretty good. Hinting is still a little off on some uppercase letters.
I was hoping Firefox 2 RC 3 would have been dropped in. I know, at some point you have to say “no” to new packages.
Evolution seems a little bit snappier. I don’t follow it’s development, so I have no idea what to attribute that to.
There are still 101 services that startup when you boot. Shutting half of them down is still the first thing I do after I install.
Clearlooks has nice controls but the icons and the window borders look average. I see icons from old GNOME, RH9, old Blue Curve, Tango, etc…
That’s the short list. Overall, I like it better then FC5 so far. I still think Ubuntu has done a better job pulling it all together, however I’m using FC because of it’s solid Xen support.
I’ll add to this list if anything interesting shows up in the next few days.
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