Submitted by Free-Bees (what’s in a name) reviews Fedora Core 5, and concludes: “The installer strikes me as the most polished part of Fedora, filled with pleasing touches. However, while the rest of the system is generally solid, there is some small instability that I never got with Fedora Core 4. There is also some post installation configuration required. While not necessarily a bad thing, how far you have to go just to get something such as Samba working is somewhat disconcerting. let’s just say that Fedora Core 5, despite the small collection of problems that spoil the party, is truly an excellent distribution. To the absolute beginner, Fedora Core may not be the best solution, but if you have a little Linux experience, or want to try and learn something new, I can heartily endorse it.”
I don’t have anything against Fedora or anything. It’s a pretty good distro.
Why so many reviews?
Isn’t this about the 4th Fedora Core 5 review on OSnews?
I got me a new XFX Nvidia 6800 GS AGP video card, had to upgrade the kernel to Linux 2.6.16-1.2080. Its working fine, though I don’t think that I have aiglx working. My query is about 3d accleration on my linux desktop as now I have a pretty decent video card. I haven’t been able to install my favorite desktop xfce though. Almost everything works fine though, good effort by the fedora community.
Its working fine, though I don’t think that I have aiglx working.
Nope, you can’t. Their next driver should provide the last needed functionality (due in few months). texture_from_pixmap is the only thing drivers lack. After that, both Xgl and aiglx will work like a charm with your card.
Meanwhile you can use xcompmgr just fine (I’m only sorry it screws some metacity properties, so I don’t use it). If you do just use these params in your xorg.conf, but as I said it is anoying when you use metacity.
Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “1”
Option “AllowGLXWithComposite” “1”
Option “RenderAccel” “1”
Option “BackingStore” “1”
I haven’t been able to install my favorite desktop xfce though.
Worked for me just fine. Did you change Xsettings to select another DE?
Nope, you can’t. Their next driver should provide the last needed functionality (due in few months). texture_from_pixmap is the only thing drivers lack. After that, both Xgl and aiglx will work like a charm with your card.
The important thing to remember is that, at last check, that extension hadn’t been finalized yet. That means that it’s unknown when they will support it, since it doesn’t make sense to implement a non-finalized standard for a extension.
In general I prefer KDE to Gnome, but FC is far and away my favorite Gnome desktop. I haven’t noticed stability issues, but I haven’t had it installed that long either.
in Linux land. PERIOD. The only drawback is the removal of LILO.
Ubuntu needs to incorporate this installer.
it is pretty good really. pretty much just the right medium between ease of use, but flexibility to customize how you want things set up. I especially like how easy it is to do an nfs install (linux askmethod) so that you don’t have to burn (what is it now?) 4-5 isos or whatever. plus it’s intelligent enough to not require you to explode the isos, just put them in you nfs exported dir and you’re good. less of an issue for ubunutu/debian though since they already have decent network based installs, but still quite good.
kickstart is another nice feature to have, easy to configure, easy to use, very very useful in large networks.
I, kinda, had, a hard, time, reading, all, those, commas …
It’s not that bad. They are placed logically, and if you think there are many, you should see such a text using danish rules.
Now, that’d give anyone major problems.
All you have to do is download the boot iso (conveniently called boot.iso) from your favorite mirror and you can do a network install without issue. I’m relatively certain that the boot.iso is less than 10 megs to download.
Haven’t we seen about 3 Fedora Core 5 reviews aleady?Anaways,I agree that Fedora is beginning to become an excellent distro.However,it’s not too good with multimedia and not as intergrated into GNOME as Ubuntu is.
I’m a KDE fan, thus Fedora is not the best choice for a KDE desktop.
If you choose KDE as your primary desktop you’ll find lots of Gnome applets doing the leg work. More over, KDE has their own applets that will tend to this job, but Fedora refuses to use them.
Even the logon screen is a gnome manager, which is a rip off of Windows XP. The security manager is also another one.
Even as an RHCE I’ve had to dump Fedora entirely, and now I’m using Kubuntu. Give it a try.
As an RHCE/RHCT myself I user Fedora quite a bit but due to its role of a testbed for RHEL then it does fall down in some areas.
Do you really think that RHEL users care all that much what the login box looks like?
Do they really care about the colour of the background?
No and No.
On the other hand if the people in charge of Fedora are trying to make it a Desktop for all then they are going in the wrong direction. I have Ubuntu running on my Laptop which dual boots with XP (which is being used less and less every day).
All my servers run RHEL or Fedora( apart from on W2K3 server that runs SQL Server).
my 500 Ariary worth
All in all, I expected an a lot better product from RH. I’m not gonna use this; I’d much rather try Ubuntu or SUSE.
Its not a product from Red Hat. Its a community project that you can get involved and participate and help out to improve it.
try the following to easily get multimedia working (xine, gmplayer, mp3s via xmms and more)
http://www.linux-noob.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2209&view=getn…
cheers
anyweb
thanks for the link, one can also try http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html . I found this link pretty helpful too since I have an XFX Nvidia 6800 GS and had to install the drivers.