Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 1st Apr 2006 15:56 UTC, submitted by kaiwai
"Over all, Fedora Core 5 seems to be alot more of a solid distribution than the last time I ran it (FC3), they finally got rid of that nasty up2date that seemed to hang at the worst possibly opportunities - when you're 98% of the way there. The applications also seemed to be tested alot more than previous releases, and the speed as improved substantially, especially with GTK; whether its due to the compile, cairo or some other mystical voodoo I don't understand, what ever the case, the improvement is great. Over all, this is probably the best distribution I've tried; if you're looking for an easy to use, no fuss UNIX-like desktop, look no further than Fedora Core 5."
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2005-07-06
I installed FC5 on to my laptop. Everything went really smoothly. I didn't have to type in any commands to get it to load. When I tried installing Ubuntu it would lock up or would not detect video properly so I couldn't finish the install. Even using command line options for installing Ubuntu was a little be sketchy. I got it to finally work with vga=771 and acpi=off, but with FC5 I didn't have to do any of that. Also when FC5 boots up I can actually see the services starting. So while some people like other distros, for me I'm going to stick with FC5 for a while.