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OSNews Rates Fedora Core 1 Mild Disappointment

Posted by simoniker on from the slightly-crumpled dept.

JigSaw writes "OSNews has reviewed the Fedora Core 1 Linux distro, but the author personally found lots of usability problems and bugs with the distro, making Fedora Core a trying experience. The writer puts the blame on poor QA of Fedora Core 1 done by its community, since Red Hat has shifted focus to Enterprise, with Fedora serving merely as a testbed for them."

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  1. Dissapointment? Fedora runs great on the laptop by Bruha · · Score: 5, Informative

    I dont know what that guy was smoking but please let me have some.

    My laptop has been a PITA with Mandrake 9 and 9.1 SuSE 8.2 and Redhat 8x and 9..

    Install Fedora

    ACPI works
    Mouse works and it's shutoff button above it.
    Broadcom 54G wireless works with Linuxant's driver

    I couldnt be happier with this setup.

    Now my only concern is one email on the list about patches for security will not be high priority and if you want quick patches to purchase RH WS or ES..

    We'll I'm not using it for work just personal. And frankly redhat should still provide fedora patches especially security ones ASAP. Otherwise it will give MS more fuel for their security FUD.

    now to order a pizza from the couch via my linux laptop!

  2. Re:It's bad because... by nzkoz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Where are you getting this crap from.

    Fedora's leadership page clearly lists redhat employees as technical lead, and taking up all the positions on the technical committee. Just because the slashtrolls say redhat's ditched it doesn't mean it's true.

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    Cheers Koz
  3. I installed Fedora over RedHat 9, here is my story by josevnz · · Score: 5, Informative

    I downloaded the Fedora ISOs two days ago; I though "well, my company is evaluating buying RedHat ES for their servers and maybe I can still use Fedora on my personal computer or my laptop, so I can see what is comming" so I gave it a shot.

    Here is what I found:

    First the good things:
    - The installer is much better and gives you the option to upgrade from RedHat 9 to fedora.
    - The Video configuration is much more responsive. It got some problems with my NVidia drivers, but it managed to start again without much effort (though the acelerated drivers were deactivaded).
    - The OS is much responsive. The Java apps ran faster and i was able to run more things at the same time using the same equipment (Its an old 800Mhz 512MB of ram Dell desktop machine).

    Now the bad things:
    - I had to reinstall the OS without upgrading; Upgrading broke my printer support (though it got fixed after the reinstall). Also my old GNOME desktop configuration broke. If you can, install from scratch (I have my home directory on a different partition so it wasn't that bad).
    - GCVS doesn't work with Fedora. There is a nasty compilation error that prevents it from compile.
    - Mozilla is pretty unstable. It crashed today at least four times.
    - Firewall builder has some compilation problems.

    Luckily I'm the type of user that doesn't need the RedHat support for trivial problems, so their support is not appealing to me (I can survive buyin the WS edition for $179). But now with RedHat saying that they will not support RedHat on the desktop (use Microsoft Windows they say) makes me wonder how good will be WS for application development without an appropiate desktop support (how good or bad the GUI support like GNOME or KDE will be there?).

    I'm used to browse the web, chat and read email from Linux; At my work I don't use Windows at all (got OpenOffice, evolution, Jedit and Vi to do all the stuff I require). It is sad to install a Windows license to later log on your Linux server to do development or to administer it.

    Don't get me wrong here; I've been a supporter of RedHat in the past (bought their CDs, become a RedHat Certified Engineer), but what incentive I have to report bugs / contribute code / support a 'beta' distribution like Fedora if I'm not going to receive security updates (they state that kind of support is not guaranteed and if the broken app doesn't get a patch then it is removed from the distro).

    RedHat needs to come with more information about WS on the desktop, a better support structure for Fedora (security patches, quality control) or their user base will probably move to another distro (why support two flavors of Linux, lets say RedHat and Suse / Debian when they offer support for the desktop and the server).

    I wish Mac OS X boxes were cheaper, probably that's an option to consider ;)

    --
    Jose Vicente Nunez Zuleta RHCE, SJCD, SJCP