I’ve recently upgraded my Fedora installation to Fedora 15 with Gnome 3. I used Gnome Shell a while back but abandoned it when they changed the meny layout. The meny layout is now the one that made me abandon Gnome Shell before, but I think I could get used to it this time. Gnome 3 looks great and a part from the extremly reduced configuration options I belive it’s a huge step in the right direction for Linux on desktops.

Gnome 3 settings dialog.

My first impression of Fedora 15 was that mostly Gnome 3 was the big news, and that is the truth. Still they’ve managed to put in a very nifty little feature that toke me by surprise when I encountered it. Look at this wonderful thing, it’s not a very complex thing to create, but a really nice touch to the former user unfriendly Linux. I was trying to run a traceroute with the command mtr and look what happend.


[amelia@forth ~]$ mtr ping.sunet.se
bash: mtr: command not found...
Install package 'mtr' to provide command 'mtr'? [N/y]
* Running..
* Resolving dependencies..
* Waiting for authentication..
* Running..
* Resolving dependencies..
* Downloading packages..


After this, the mtr window appeared running a traceroute against ping.sunet.se. I’m amazed at this brilliant idea for a desktop Linux distribution, but at the same time I pray that they’ll never ever implement a feature like this in any of the enterprise server distributions out there.

Check out the rest of my Fedora 15 and Gnome 3 screenshots at: http://www.linuxchick.se/gallery/fedora-15-with-gnome-3/