Sadly, To Not Much Surprise, Fedora 24 Alpha Has Been Delayed

[k1l_]

It's not so much a "delay" or "traditional", but rather that Fedora deliberately doesn't lock itself into a firm, fixed schedule. The project has guidelines that outline the issues that can block a release. Target dates are essentially organizational tools.

"Its not a car, it just got 4 Wheels, a steeringwheel, 5 Seats, a bonnet, a trunk, a radio, an engine and a numberplate."

[nanonyme]

Perhaps they should not have dropped wayland as default as there still is plenty of time to make it work.

Gnome with Wayland is *not* dropped, it just doesn't look like it will be the default. You are very welcome to choose it from GDM as session and report any problems you see in bug trackers

[Tomin]

F24 Alpha Go/No-Go meeting

Are they deciding whether to include AlphaGo in Fedora or what?

I just had to. AlphaGo has been in the news lately and AlphaGo or no go meeting sounded funny.

[buzzrobot]

https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blocker.../alpha/buglist

People don't bother to look, then assume someone is hiding something.

[buzzrobot]

It's not so much a "delay" or "traditional", but rather that Fedora deliberately doesn't lock itself into a firm, fixed schedule. The project has guidelines that outline the issues that can block a release. Target dates are essentially organizational tools.

The nightlies are produced and made available every day.

[Anvil]

Perhaps they should not have dropped wayland as default as there still is plenty of time to make it work.

Wayland 1.10 just didnt support enough stuff to be made default . Wayland 1.11 in F25 should have most support they need in it to make it Default. but some people forget, Wayland is just a Graphics Stack.

[Anvil]

A list of the blocking bugs would be nice..

https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/24/alpha/buglist

[varikonniemi]

Perhaps they should not have dropped wayland as default as there still is plenty of time to make it work.

[spike411]

So where is this myth that Ubuntu is nowadays still significantly the most user-friendly distro coming from? Apart from some notable multimedia packages missing from the official Fedora repositories due to their stricter licensing policy... (which can be overcome with RPMFusion quite easily) what's the difference? For me, Fedora just works (as well as or better than Ubuntu).

[magika]

What niche does fedora fill in 2016? It's not a bleeding edge distro anymore when you compare it to things like Arch linux. It's not as stable as Debian, and not as user-friendly as Ubuntu.

Also not as fast as Arch (rpm-dnf-slow vs pacman) and not as stable either: I've never had so many things broken due upgrade in Arch as when I did Fedora upgrade, and more, upgrading script broke itself :P