Just installed Fedora 8 yesterday and it's incredible. PulseAudio, simpler SELinux and firewall configuration, IcedTea Java stuff, CodecBuddy, to name but a few - simply amazing. Even the default background changes gradient depending on the time of day: from a blueish hue to a warm orange at nightfall. It's the little things like that which show the attention to detail and effort put into the distribution as a whole.
Absolutely outstanding. Sure, there's a minor EXA bug and some mono/multilib breakage...but then again, EXA is still deemed somewhat experimental by the X people, and multilib has always caused much pain; so I suppose these are to be expected.
A huge "Thank you!" to all the Fedora developers, infrastructure hackers, package maintainers, contributors, art/design people, translators - everyone. We've put out another fantastic release. :-D
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