It's still "Anaconda", actually. Just a totally new version they redesigned from the ground up. :-P Which reminds me that I need to go check it out... I usually just upgrade my Fedora through yum, but with this new introduction, I think I'll need to do a fresh install. Reading the design documents last week, it sounded pretty nice. Hopefully it resolves all the things that bothered me over the years about Anaconda. -Andrew On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Joel Longanecker < joel.longanecker at gmail.com> wrote: > On the other hand, you have Fedora 18... What were they thinking ditching > Anaconda? > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com>wrote: > >> I'm amazed by the amount of innovation going on in the Linux world. >> >> The Linux Mint team breathed new life into the once-flagging MATE project >> (a continuation of GNOME 2). MATE has since spread into many other distros. >> >> The Linux Mint team started the Cinnamon project to give GNOME 3 the look >> and feel of GNOME 2. Cinnamon has since spread to competing distros. >> Cinnarch uses Cinnamon as its default DE. >> >> Mageia (forked from Mandriva) is the second distro to eclipse Ubuntu on >> Distrowatch. Only Linux Mint ranks higher. >> >> Several Arch Linux derivatives have popped up lately. Just a year or so >> ago, I was wondering why there weren't Arch Linux derivatives. Perhaps one >> of these Arch derivatives can be the Ubuntu or Mint of Arch Linux. >> >> There is a new distro called ArchPup, which is Puppy Linux built from >> Arch Linux packages. This is a sign of success for both Puppy Linux and >> Arch Linux. >> >> All is not lost for Ubuntu, as people are still creating Ubuntu >> derivatives. However, the controversial Unity interface still isn't >> gaining traction among desktop users. Unlike MATE and Cinnamon, Unity >> hasn't been spreading to Ubuntu's competitors. >> >> -- >> Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130124/382959e5/attachment.html>