Just curious what your impression of Fedore Core was ...
The Army Lab that I support is going full Fedora (i.e. no Windblows) and I just downloaded the ISOs. I will install it tonight and give it a shot ..
Anyone tried Fedora Core?
It's best described as Red Hat 10, so if you liked Red Hat 9, here's the next stage.
Some nice things about it:
- Cool graphical loading screen, a la Mac OS X
- Latest and greatest of most programs
- Not as slow as Mandrake (not as fast as Slackware)
- It's free and you aren't expected to pay for it (unlike Mandrake)
- Ships with a thousand screensavers
Some not-so-nice things about it:
- Lack of MP3 or NTFS support out of the box (Red Hat does it for "legal" reasons, ironically no other Linux distro does)
- Does not autodetect connected Windows partitions
- Some programs caused my CPU to hit 100% (perhaps because they are bleeding edge releases in some cases)
- Configuration tools still not as nice as Mandrake's
- Update system is still wacky
Overall: I'd recommend it, but if you intend to turn it into a competent multimedia distribution, be prepared to spend a half-hour loading things that should have been there in the first place.
Some nice things about it:
- Cool graphical loading screen, a la Mac OS X
- Latest and greatest of most programs
- Not as slow as Mandrake (not as fast as Slackware)
- It's free and you aren't expected to pay for it (unlike Mandrake)
- Ships with a thousand screensavers
Some not-so-nice things about it:
- Lack of MP3 or NTFS support out of the box (Red Hat does it for "legal" reasons, ironically no other Linux distro does)
- Does not autodetect connected Windows partitions
- Some programs caused my CPU to hit 100% (perhaps because they are bleeding edge releases in some cases)
- Configuration tools still not as nice as Mandrake's
- Update system is still wacky
Overall: I'd recommend it, but if you intend to turn it into a competent multimedia distribution, be prepared to spend a half-hour loading things that should have been there in the first place.
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So far it looks good. My RH9 code ported easily with a few glitches ...
1) It seems that there is a bug in the FreeGlut joystick support for Fedora that causes a crash whenever the joystick is accessed. This is documented in the bug list at freeglut.sourceforge.net ... hopefully it will be fixed soon.
2) I succeeded in installing the nVidia accelerated drivers (Fx 5200/128 card) but my OpenGL code runs incredibly slow. I am assuming at this point that I am just not linking to the proper libraries ...
All in all it looks very much like RH9 with the names changed to Fedora Core.
1) It seems that there is a bug in the FreeGlut joystick support for Fedora that causes a crash whenever the joystick is accessed. This is documented in the bug list at freeglut.sourceforge.net ... hopefully it will be fixed soon.
2) I succeeded in installing the nVidia accelerated drivers (Fx 5200/128 card) but my OpenGL code runs incredibly slow. I am assuming at this point that I am just not linking to the proper libraries ...
All in all it looks very much like RH9 with the names changed to Fedora Core.