Fedora 18 Finally Released

[Aergan]

Runs like **** in a VM.

It loads Plymouth then crashes out to a console.

[ViperAFK]

does the "lock screen after" option not work for anyone else in f18? Even if I set it to 30 mins or one hour it locks the screen right after the screen turns off (10 mins)

[Reacon]

Wow! So I've installed Steam, and have gotten the AMD proprietaries to actually work with Gnome 3 flawlessly!

It seems that things have improved since my absence.

[Haggis Veteran]

Do not upgrade to Kernel 3.7.2.204

its broken

[tiagosilva29]

Why do you guys need to be so bleeding edge? Jumping to 3.7 is just asking for trouble.

[Haggis Veteran]

Fedora is pretty much bleeding edge though

If you dont want that could always use Ubuntu or Debian lol

it was a system update

we were already on the 3.7 Kernel with a fresh install

3.7.2.201 is fine

3.7.2.204 seems to have a few problems

[tiagosilva29]

we were already on the 3.7 Kernel with a fresh install

Meh. Fedora 18 comes with 3.6.x. I will only update it in a couple of months, when most issues are probably fixed (or at least documented).

[Haggis Veteran]

Thats completely up to you :)

but without people installing stuff no bugs would ever be picked up thus none would ever be fixed :)

The way i look at it all my important stuff is backed up constantly so if i install something and it b0rks then i just re-install :)

[ViperAFK]

I did have one annoying problem with kernel 3.7, I had a powersave script that does various tweaks to save power on battery. one of those tweaks is disabling the NMI watchdog on battery. With kernel 3.7 disabling nmi watchdog just causes a complete system freeze lol.

[tiagosilva29]

Installed, then couldn't get pass the verification of my encrypted partition password. I'm going to reinstall Fedora 17.

[JustGeorge]

Anyone else having issues with desktop icons not showing in Cinnamon?

[Haggis Veteran]

do this

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true
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[JustGeorge]

do this

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true
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Good stuff, thanks!