“After a commenter on my entry about the Ubuntu Natty alpha
called me “pathetic” for expecting basic functionality from an
alpha release, I decided to go deep and look at a pre-alpha for
Fedora 15 in the form of a nightly build of the distribution that
won’t have its official alpha release for another 12 days, nor its
official release as F15 until May 10 (a full 12 days after Ubuntu
Natty’s scheduled April 28 release date and a week shy of three
months from now).“Despite this live image of what will become Fedora 15 being a
nightly build of a pre-alpha, I found it surprisingly functional
and fast on the desktop, if a little homely design-wise. But work,
it does.“Here’s my entry that began as one of my comments to my Ubuntu
Natty Alpha entry:“I just downloaded, burned and am now testing a nightly build of
Fedora 15 for x86_64. It’s the nightly build for Feb. 17, 2011 –
That’s today.”
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