People bitch and moan because that is what the internet has devolved to. Look at any forum or discussion site and you'll see the same thing, day in, day out.

The Internet was supposed to be one of mankinds greatest achievements - yet looking at it now, it makes me want to punch random strangers in the face. Social media constantly reminds me how dumb people are, and forums how arrogant humans can be.

I did exactly this... I run linux on just about every non-GUI bit of equipment I have - virtualisation, the lot - but everything that I actually have to look at a screen for, I use Windows 7 again. Gnome 3 killed it for me... I have 3 x 24" 1920x1080 screens that Gnome 3 could never handle right. I was running Fedora 20 until Gnome 3.

TBH, XFCE would be perfect IF it was using wayland. The graphics tearing issues I had with my tri-head video card + XFCE was horrible. The sad fact was the only real fix was that XFCE needs newer graphics handling. One day it'll get there - and hopefully one day it becomes nice to use again - but until then, I went back to Windows 7 and the amount of work I actually get done is amazing...

The other benefit is that the dual GPUs (Intel + ATI) in my laptop actually work properly so I can play some TF2 on my laptop in the downtime - with VERY good performance. I couldn't get anywhere near that on Linux - even with the ATI binary drivers.

This is what is wrong with SystemD.... Do ONE job, do it well. Not replace the entire ecosystem.....

This is exactly right. I was playing with the last lot of RHEL7 betas - the biggest issue I had was that ethernet adapters would randomly fail to start - and systemd would not give any details as to why. Each time I had to log in over a serial console, stop networking, disable the profile, enable the profile again, and start networking. This would work perfectly - until a random time when rebooting later on (and not every reboot) where networking wouldn't come up again.

This is not what admins need - randomly failing network connections. This is also a problem that was fixed decades ago - until systemd causes it again.

Lets ignore the problems with new aims to recreate consoles etc in systemd / userland and ignore / disable the kernel ones. Because that's a great idea *cough*

So the next lot of phishing will come from: róót@gmail.com / Àdministrator@gmail.com or BìllGàtes@gmail.com etc?

Great.

Python 2 or Python 3? They're not portable between the two versions. Who knows what Python 4 will bring.

I agree. XFCE would be perfect by itself if it did proper vsync to stop tearing. From my research, this won't be the case until XFCE is ported to wayland. Compton is another low resource compositor that has a working vsync implementation and works perfectly with XFCE.

+1 here too.

I tried out the RHEL7 RC the other day and was very disappointed to see Gnome3 being the default desktop. No XFCE, only Gnome 3 or KDE. A bit of a shame. Means I won't be using RHEL7 on any desktops like I was hoping. At least the GUI selection won't matter for console only installs - which is the majority of my EL installations...

Right now, I'm using XFCE on Fedora 20 - and its not perfect, but does what I need. Getting Bluetooth back would be handy (blueman only works with bluez4, Fedora has bluez5).

Not quite... The GPS is used for calibration, then INS is the primary system. For the logic to fall back far enough to use a pure GPS position, a lot of other things have failed....

Congratulations - You've just described ADS-B [1] - however its MUCH more often than every 5 minutes - and more airliners already have it. In fact, look at the tracking info from flightradar24.com for the flight in question [2] - then it disappeared... Having yet another bit of tech to combat this is stupid.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... - Bonus: How it works - http://www.airservicesaustrali...
[2] http://theaviationist.com/wp-c...

In a way, I agree - but I can't say that I like KDE or Gnome 3. I ended up settling on XFCE using Fedora 20. It boots fast, everything works as it should (except a PCI DVB card - but I already had a spare USB one that works fine).

Thunderbird for email, Chrome for web browsing, terminal, Steam for my TF2 fix, and it all 'just works' - especially now the open source radeon driver does dynamic power management correctly.

I'm just in the middle of purchasing a new laptop - and the first thing that will happen is it be formatted and Fedora 20 get installed. I've also moved away from Google for contacts / calendar sync and now using OwnCloud (private stuff ftw!), and Dropbox is also replaced by OwnCloud. I'm finally getting to have a say in my OS and data security!

Thats too much work... They just need to pay some young girl a few grand to say she was raped by him. Oldest trick in the book....

Diary / Calendar entry:
Meeting at 1300 today with Anon Coward.

Look at that, its recorded. If its in my phones calendar its even a digital recording of it. Better really get your mask on... But wait, wouldn't I still know it was you if I talked to you?

This is where it gets silly.... You worry about the certification for other software, but not the base OS? If the certification is important, then it would be BETTER to use the proper RHEL and not a free 'knockoff'....

I don't think anyone really cares about binary compatibility. I cannot think of a single operational advantage that this gives - apart from "narf, the checksums match what I could have paid for". The massive migration away from CentOS in version 6 proved this.