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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. Fedora Fine for Me by Sir+Kewl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I am using Fedora right now to write this comment. While some of the bugs mentioned in the article are valid points, I have no problems with multimedia playback, using yum and rpm.livna.org to download mplayer, xine and xmms-mp3 was quite painless. Perhaps the author should have subscribed to the fedora mailing list before he tried the distro. The RPM problem has been fixed, installation of ATI 3D drivers was painless.

    I just want to give a big THANK YOU to the whole Fedora team. The release had its problems but I am happy with my setup!

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  2. Use it properly. by reaper20 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This "review" is fundamentally flawed, because I have no idea where in the release notes or Fedora FAQs it states to do what she did to this box, this reads like a whine-fest because Red Hat did not fix her favorite bugs:

    a) So, the first thing she does is install a third party RPM and then wonders why it blows up in her face? How about the RPMs that came with the distribution? So, the install is brand new already broken in a VMWare installation.

    b) Why is she using apt and synaptic? They don't even come with Fedora.

    c) The RPM from Sun installs the JVM in all the Mozilla browser's (I didn't install KDE so I can't speak for Konqueror) and even integrates into the GNOME menu.

    d) The well known limitations of Fedora's multimedia capabilities plague every linux distribution. It's not Fedora's fault that US laws suck. It's as easy to add multimedia in Fedora as it is in debian, you add one non-free source and you're done.

    Here's a hint, if you're the kind of person that worries about moving from gaim .71 to .72 right after you install your distribution, then Fedora probably is not for you. Or you could wait until updated RPMs hit the official repositories instead of grabbing Joe Bob's RPM build and wondering why your installation exploded.

  3. Re:What a shock by *SECADM · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Ars says "...After using it throughout the beta cycle, we can say that would be true if it wasn't for one small problem -- Fedora rocks. Hard."

    I don't trust Eugenia either. She seems much more obsessed with screenshots and themes than anything else(such as usability).

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