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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."

12 of 510 comments (clear)

  1. Fedora? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    More like Gaydora if you ask me.

  2. Linux is DEAD. Long Live *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is indeed a troll!!

    Welcome slashdot community.

    1. Re:Linux is DEAD. Long Live *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Uhhh... yeah right. Not until the BSDs have support for stuff that most people want... Like the latest media players, 3D accelerated X drivers, USB, Plug-n-Play, Firewire, Pro audio apps, video editing, etc...

      Until then, no one is going to be moving to BSD. Ever.

    2. Re:Linux is DEAD. Long Live *BSD by Bendebecker · · Score: 0, Troll

      BSD won't go anywhere becuase all their games suck. The emulated roms on windows work better than some of the games that exist on BSD. No, I take that back, the emulated roms to 20 year old systems that exist on windows are better than ALL of the games on BSD. The only thing BSD is good for is a server for Windows games (which BSD can't even play right.) Until BSD gets better games, BSD will never get anywhere. Maybe a better installer might help too. And better configuration tools. And ease of use could definitely be improved...

      --
      There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
      most of us won't be able to afford it.
      -- Lemmy
  3. Re:I'M GOING TO BLOW MYSELF UP IN THE NAME OF ISLA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can take your eight-armed elephant god and shove him up yer arse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  4. Expected Outcome by nurb432 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Desktop linux is now unimportant to Redhat, so we should expect any efforts from them in that market to be dismal, at best.

    They have moved on from their customer base, so its time for us to move on to something else that has a longer term future on the desktop, be it Debian, Slackware, even *BSD..

    ( just sort of suprised it happened THIS fast.. )

    --
    ---- Booth was a patriot ----
  5. Heheh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    My disappointment started when I tried to upgrade Gaim 0.71 to 0.72. The third party Shrike RPM wouldn't work because of pspell dependancy problems. Downloading pspell and compiling it manually wouldn't work either as libpspell-modules were nowhere to be found in the newly compiled archive. So I decided to download the source of Gaim and compile it myself. All went fine with Gaim's compilation except the MSN plugin wouldn't load because gnuTLS that provides SSL to Gaim was not installed. I got to gnuTLS' FTP site downloaded the source, only to ask me for libcrypt. Downloaded the source of libcrypt, only to ask me for the source of GnuPG. I downloaded the gnupg, compiled fine, went back to libcrypt, only to bail out badly with severe compiling errors.

    The author must not have RTFMed. Obviously, this is a troll. Open source software is perfect, and this is no big deal. Linux is definitely ready for the desktop, and M$ is teh sux. Let's just all ignore it. Oh, look! Over there! Another M$/$CO/RIAA/GNAA/MPAA/AAA story!!! Let's go!!!

  6. Re:Usability Issues by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh look, a condescending linux user. How new.

  7. Remove Gnome from Fedora by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And become a KDE distro. Redhat has stalled the desktop market by using gnome (don't argue, Gnome IS worse than KDE until they dump gconf and that file dialog). Then, with a real desktop environment to use, People will actually be able to use Fedora.

  8. fuck of you whiney loose by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "my distro is so much kewler than yers!!! gosh i rule! next year i might grow hair on my nuts too!!!"

  9. Free Tickets to SCALE by MrMorph · · Score: 1, Troll

    Southern California Linux Expo on November 22nd at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. Other exhibitors include Real Networks, Novell, and Pogo Linux. Some of the speakers include Seth Nickell, Chris Dibona, Patrick Mochel and John Terpstra. Full and student tickets are still available for this event as well as free exhibition only passes using the FREE promotional code.

  10. Re:I no longer bother to submit bug ignores... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck off and die bitch, noone gives a shit