Submitted by “I use Fedora core daily and I’ve used every final release of Fedora since Yarrow (Fedora Core Release 1). When I get time, I also look at some of the test releases to see how Fedora is changing, and if there’s one thing certain about Fedora, it’s change. I decided to write this article to hopefully give people a chance to learn a little bit more about Fedora since the first release came to life back in November 2003, how the distro has matured and what to expect for Fedora Core release 5 in mid-March 2006.”
what are the advantages of runnning fedora on ppc arquitecture????
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It can be used by PPC users who like to install a Linux distro on their systems (not specifically Apple as there are IBM system like Cell).
Also, PPC version of Fedora can be used for the Cell architecture as software development kit:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-cellstartsim…
Edited 2006-02-18 19:48
I run FC4 on my MAC Mini and get lots of envious looks from my Local LUG (HantsLug UK).
I also run in X86/64 and do lots of real work on it. Since the virtual debacle of FC1/2 it has been very stable and usable.
I run lots of commercial products on it and find it very easy to use in a server environment. The desktop is a bit more problematic but with each release its gets better.
I run DB2, Oracle, Websphere MQ & Message Broker on one system and it easily outperforms an identical H/W system running Win2003 Server.
Fedora gets a lot of criticism for not including things like MP3 codecs in the base distro. I for one applaud their objective to keep it clean. On desktop systems it is easy to add other yum libraries like livna to get this stuff if I need it(not often)
I run FC4 on a Dell 8600 Laptop and the only thing that does not work is the wireless LAN. This is a broadcom chip and their virtual refusal to ack that linux exists is the reason. This is not the default of Fedora.
I have tried some of the baselevel releases of FC3/4 and now 5 and find them very incomplete but often useful to get a view of whats coming. The final version does not have the limitations of the baselevels and in general they are pretty goos OOTB. The things that get missed soon get sorted and a regular yum update soon sorts things out.
The ONLY real problem I have encountered with FC4 was with an IBM 15n TFT screen that reported itself as a lenovo device and thus XORG refused to play ball. Strangely, the 17in device also reported itself as a lenovo but XORG configured itself fine.
Thats my 0.02sum worth on Fedora.
try this guide to get your broadcom wireless nic to work
http://www.linux-noob.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2098
ndiswrapper the whole way,
cheers
anyweb
what about viruses and performance???? is it easier to
write programs or scripts?????
thanks for all the answers.
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what about viruses and performance?
– Performamce: on my Athlon XP2500 with 1GB RAM using Asus motherboard: excellent
– Viruses writers will have to be quicker than the patches http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security?highlight=%28securit…
They will have a hard time to deal with with these features: http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview?highlight=%28overvie…
Only problem will be social engineering which affect any OS.
is it easier to write programs or scripts?
Give a try and see yourself .
Edited 2006-02-19 22:32
Im no real programmer, i dont do anything crazy with my machine. some word processing maybe, surf the web, chat online, play games. I do the stuff most `normal` people do with their windows pc. The difference between fedora and other distros is, the Fedora community demand the newest / coolest / best software. Fedora just works, and is always on top of that `bleeding edge`. I’ve used Fedora Core since it first came out (previous to that, i used RH7.1, 8, and 9). The speed in which Fedora is growing is much faster than it had been in the past (with Redhat 7-9). I attribute this to the fact it is now a community effort. With Fedora shipping with the new version of Gnome and new tools such as Beagle ( http://beaglewiki.org/Main_Page ), I think the number of people switching from windows, or another distribution to Fedora are going to grow significantly.
look out Microsoft… Fedora is hot on your heals.
I’ve got FC4 installed on both my iMac and my dual-Opteron PC. What I like best about Fedora is it comes with nearly every development tool you could possible want. I like to program, and not having to hunt down things (like Boost) is nice.
I used fedora core 1 and 2. It was a good distro as i used redhat before that. It is easy to set up and it works really well. I ran it on my laptop with everything working well. I just grew out of it, it just doesnt have the speed and configurability i have come to love and expect from linux and what i get from Gentoo.
I installed Fedora Core 5 Test 2 pretty well as soon as it came out, but trying to keep it up-to-date is tricky (yum.conf points to Rawhide and they just finished a complete rebuild of the entire distro!). Here’s my brief summary:
Good points:
* I like the new busy cursor (blue swirl animation).
* Azureus shipped as standard (though it gives me a Java traceback when I run it, it still fires up and works).
* Seems fast to boot, including being a bit quicker than FC4 to get into Gnome.
Bad points:
* SELinux still tends to break the occasional app, but understandable during the test phase of FC5.
* Log off… menu in Gnome no longer lets you shutdown or reboot, which is very strange. You have to log off, go back to the gdm screen and then shutdown/reboot from there (or you could just “su -” and shutdown/reboot as root of course). Note that KDE *does* let you shutdown/reboot from its Log off… menu option.
* New Suspend menu option on the Gnome main menu blanked the screen (inc. the monitor signal) and I couldn’t resume at all – probably because I disabled stuff like acpi/apm (if those are disabled, it shouldn’t offer a Suspend option).
* It’s looking like gcc 4.1 final won’t be out before FC5 final, so we could end up with a CVS gcc being used, which isn’t generally a good thing.
* Default “number of mounts before forced fsck” setting seems very low to me (30? 40?) – never had this problem on any previous FC release. When you reboot every day (as many home users will) and you have some large (300-400GB) SATA drives with a lot of files, getting them fsck’ed for no reason every month or so (takes 10-15 mins on boot!) is annoying.
* Tried the KDE environment for a change and I wonder if it’s a bit neglected – the old Fedora Core logo appears as the KDE splash screen for example (even though the new logo is used in the default wallpaper).
* It’s looking like gcc 4.1 final won’t be out before FC5 final, so we could end up with a CVS gcc being used, which isn’t generally a good thing.
I don’t think it’ll matter much. The current gcc 4.1 branch is in better shape than the gcc 4.0 snapshot fedora 4 shipped with, even though that was past the stable release.
* Log off… menu in Gnome no longer lets you shutdown or reboot, which is very strange. You have to log off, go back to the gdm screen and then shutdown/reboot from there (or you could just “su -” and shutdown/reboot as root of course). Note that KDE *does* let you shutdown/reboot from its Log off… menu option.
I have tried it and it works fine on my system. I can reboot and halt the system without dropping to GDM first. There are now 2 different options for logging out and shutting down the system, so you have to choose the right one.
F-Spot is no longer available in the menu and I too had the suspend problem.
I also had a problem with Firefox and flash where I ad to disable SELinux, reboot and then the flash ran properly. It’s probably more to do with my lack of working through SE than SE doesn’t work at all.
–griz
What I have noticed since updating is that gnome is very quick indeed. I hope they continue to work on this aspect as it is a major concern for anyone that uses computers.
Well done on the performance improvement.
–griz