Two reviews of the recently released Fedora Core 6. "FC 6 certainly is one of the best looking distro's I have seen, especially for a default installation. but several smaller issue bugs that crept into FC 6 made me wonder how organized they really are. The problems I encountered with Fedora Core 6 were not huge issues, but there were enough smaller bugs that made me wonder if this release was rushed." And secondly, "FC6 is here, at last, and we've been busy putting it through its paces to let you see what's new. You're probably most interested in the following questions: Is Yum still slow? (yes). How good is AIGLX? (excellent). Does it still lack many configuration tools (yes)."
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I click on Extras, then I customize what I want installed, and about 45 minutes into it, it says there is a compatibility error, and my only option is to reboot, I can't cancel it or bypass it. I'm doing it from a fresh install on an empty drive. I read on FedoraForm.org that just doing a default install and no customization or selecting of packages might help it work better, but there is zero assurance of that as well.
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Wow, that sucked as far as reviews go. Wasted a whole page of text and pictures to barf their opinion when they could've summed it up in three lines.
1. YUM sucks
2. FC6 doesn't have pretty icons. Oh the horror.
3. AIGLX and and Xen are cool.
Ahh but that's not all. Turns out this "review" was all a bad disguise to lead into yet another Ubuntu plug.
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I mostly agree with you. The piece also suffers of screenshotitis. Who needs another four examples of the 3D cube?
I think Linux has become too mainstream now. 
In many reviews, nowadays it's mostly, looking for the easy to find bugs, telling how you got your multimedia stuff installed, showing dull screenshots, and saying it's good, but not perfect.
I wouldn't mind if it wasn't given the ambitious title of "review"
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It's weird that the reviewer says he was prompted with a totem-xine package conflict as soon as he started the system, because totem-xine is not a package provided by Fedora. What he did was manually install a package from a 3rd party repository which then created a conflict with Fedora's official RPM's.
He should file a packaging bug against the provider of totem-xine, which is not Fedora.
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try this out - 5 easy steps to installing Fedora Core Release 6 goodies >
http://www.linux-noob.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2533
This covers step by step instructions to install
Java (jdk-1_5_0_08)
Flash
xine
mplayer+mplayer plugins for firefox
mp3+plugins
shouldnt take more than 15 minutes from start to finish if you follow it all,
cheers
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Just installed on Dell Inspiron 6000 with no hick ups. Everything that I need worked right out of the box. Multimedia and some additional tools had to be added, but that is hardly a challenge anymore. I got the same re assuring feeling of a powerful and reliable OS that I'm used to getting from FC. AIGLX and Compiz is very smooth on my low end notebook. All in all thumbs up and keep the good work
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I downloaded the DVD. Burned it using K3B. Backup up home folder to DVD.
I rebooted the PC and selected to do a clean install. I selected to format only my linux partitions. I selected the custom package selection and added Apache, mysql, and XFCE4. I rebooted after the installation was done. I logged in and Gnome started up. There were 13 updates in the update manager on the Gnome taskbar. I clicked on the update alert button and logged in as root and installed them all. I opened a shell and downloaded Seamonkey and Gftp via yum. I istalled the Flash 9 RPM via yum. I installed the RealPlayer via yum.
I launched Open office, Firefox, selected a streaming radio station in realplayer. Everything worked. Sweet. I copied back my DVD to my home folder. My jpilot and mozilla preferences all returned. I attepted to enable the Desktop Effects but it failed since I haven't installed the Nvidia drivers yet. Still the old proprietary driver issue which makes Fedora less newbie friendly.
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I attepted to enable the Desktop Effects but it failed since I haven't installed the Nvidia drivers yet.
You might try livna-testing repository for that. They work for me like a charm (and I do have really complex setup), I just had to redirect gstreamer and mplayer to gl (nvidia 9626 seem to have problem with xv, but hell, they're still beta).
And you might have to add
Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
in nvidia section of xorg.conf if you notice any problems with Desktop Effects (for me video was freezing without this and redirecting to gl).
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"When I first came to your planet and demanded your homes, property and very lives, I didn't know you were already doing so, willingly, with your own government. I can win no tribute from a bankrupted nation populated by feeble flag-waving plebeians. In 2008 I shall restore your dignity and make you servants worthy of my rule. This new government shall become a tool of my oppression. Instead of hidden agendas and waffling policies, I offer you direct candor and brutal certainty. I only ask for your tribute, your lives, and your vote."
-- General Zod
Your Future President and Eternal Ruler
The new Fedora Core 6 (a.k.a. Zod) is fantastic!
http://www.zod2008.com/
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I installed already onto 2 computers. And both installations went well.
Although i must say, i had to remove a previos mandriva installation to get to work Fedora 6 installation (seems Anaconda disk partition program doesn't like to create more than 3 partitions on the same disk).
Adding livna repository leads to broken dependencies and i cannot update the system.
Another thing, is that i haven't been able to get to work AIXGL with the drivers included in the installation or propietary drivers.
So, mixed feelings, i guess i had very high hopes for Fedora 6, and not everything is working as well as i wanted.
Mandriva 2007 has done better so far with everything working from the beginning.
Anyway, i'll try to get this things fixed.
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$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 7.1G 2.6G 4.2G 39% /
/dev/hda1 99M 5.8M 88M 7% /boot
tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda4 66G 214M 62G 1% /home
Hmm, if you include my swap partition, I believe that makes 4 partitions on one drive (the limit for DOS style partitions). Now if you don't choose "force primary" it will go to creating logical partitions after partition 3. If you already had previous partitioning this is probably where your trouble started.
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It seems a step in the right direction, but it is not successfully done. They are trying to be like Add/Remove of Ubuntu but they cannot.
Anyway, I don't feel it must be named fedora core 6 but rather FC5.1, all judged from the little changes.
Too much configuration need to be done if you want to get it working to it's full power. Yum, and repositories method need to be revised from the ground up rather than improve it.
There are still the annoyances present in FC5 like not being able to install all packages from the DVD (unlike in RHEL which is available); and the mandatory do it or die (like insert CD #99 for the package *** to be installed, while you cannot skip, reboot or abort)
Another weakness I noticed is the lack of new tools that might add to the little and less powerful tools
that already exist on FC5 like decent Partitioner, better scanning/printing tools, better support for webcams.
You can add the lack of midi support on the most common cards like Creative Audigy2ZX, Audigy 4 and XFi series.
Maybe if the next fedora will not include some real big differences from FC6 then I might change the distro to ubuntu or mandriva 2006/2007 that's if I didn't have the cash to get MacPro then.
For the time, I will enjoy this SP1 of FC5!
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Almost all of the bugs mentioned here are with third party repos, my suggestion, install third part stuff after install. It was always a concern that allowing third party software at install would create bugs, but this is not a problem with the Fedora Project. There are already a lot of patches in updates so cleary there are bugs, but these are not them.
And I will probably get flamed, but I am sick of ubuntu being overhyped. What they do well, package selection, distro size and a nice installer, upstart looks promising to. But both Novell/Suse and Redhat/Fedora have contributed far more, even to the software included in ubuntu.
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Sssh don't say that too loudly. Yes adding third party repo support allows certain users with little patience to hang themselves at install time, but it also effectively made XFCE available again at install time by allowing extras to be turned on. That one tiny detail is enough to sell me on FC6.
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I get this when I try to install the nvidia drivers:
Transaction Check Error: package kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 is already installed
file /boot/System.map-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 from install of kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
file /boot/config-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 from install of kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
file /boot/symvers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.gz from install of kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 from install of kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
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have a look at this thread on the fedora-test-list
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-October/msg007...
cheers
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