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Fedora Core 2 Test 3 Released
Wee writes "I just got an email from Bill Nottingham of Red Hat letting me know that the third and final test release of Fedora Core 2 is now available. The announcement mentions the big changes are SELinux being disabled by default, that on-and-off problem with install CD1 not booting should be fixed, and anaconda now is sporting 31 languages. The mirrors look like they are opening slowly but surely, and bug reports are always appreciated."
my friend has been talking about this all day wondering when it would happen. guess he got his wish.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Fedora fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Fedora box (a PIII 800 w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Fedora box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Emacs Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Fedora machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Fedora box that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the Fedora machines faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 800 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Fedora is a "superior" machine.
Fedora addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Fedora over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Installers are for newbies.
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The Fedora kernel 2.6 problem with NVIDIA's drivers (or vice versa) has to do with a choice RH engineers made for their version of the kernel and got into the mainstream; it's not compatible with NVIDIA's choice of kernel parameters for their binary driver. Reading the RH employee's post on the matter confirms that it's one part RH arrogance, one part NVIDIA short-sightedness and one part non-cooperation which adds up to one major Linux consumer sodomizing because all these self-aggrandizing posturing people can't play well with others.
Almost forgot . . . the obnoxious "compile/fix-it-yourself-closed-source-is-evil" posters can bite my anonymous behind while they mod this post down; the other 99.9% of us are getting boned while those 733t clowns pontificate and piss on each other.
Would you trust a racist university?
Bittorrent URLs redirect to an image of a man and his gaping anus ("The catcher"). God damn Duke.
Are all debian arch's out of date?
*ducks*
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