Fedora 27 released

Re:Fedora 27 released by lima on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:12AM (#15695662)

I too went from Arch to Fedora and life is easier now. It's astonishing just how well Arch works, but maintaining it is still a lot of work.

I'm pretty busy and spent too much time fixing my Arch machine, which outweighed the time I was saving.

I still have an Arch laptop and many Arch virtual machines for playing CTFs and HAM radio stuff.

Flatpak is a fine replacement for AUR in many cases, and it's more secure, too (if you keep an eye on the permissions set in the manifests - many specify --filesystems=home).

(do not use rpmfusion for VLC and the like - use Flatpak instead!)

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Re:Fedora 27 released by nickysielicki on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @10:42AM (#15695959)

I'm surprised you prefer arch linux for amateur radio stuff. Hamlib, wsjtx, and fldigi are packaged and in the main repositories on fedora, but the same is not true for arch linux. What software are you using that you find easier with arch linux?

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Re:Fedora 27 released by lima on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @01:45PM (#15697925)

Most important reason is that I haven't actually tried.

Shack laptop is running Arch and a bunch of custom stuff that happened to compile fine on Arch.

Your comment made me check, and even GNURadio and osmosdr is packaged in Fedora. Huh. Time to re-visit that decision :-)

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Re:Fedora 27 released by type0 on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:50PM (#15699507)

Fedora is THE distro for radio enthusiasts :-)

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Re:Fedora 27 released by jononor on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @03:02PM (#15698607)

Those are all available in AUR (source packages / recipes), both latest release and -git versions.

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