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Fedora Core 2 Review
An anonymous reader writes "Linuxlookup.com staff member Rich Hughes posted his thoughts on the latest Fedora release with this Core 2 Review. "Fedora Core 2 is the newest release from The Distro Formerly Known As RedHat. Updates include the 2.6 kernel, KDE 3.2, Gnome 2.6, X.org replacing Xfree86 and numerous package updates. Having played around with SuSE 9.1, Arch .6 and Slackware 9 with the 2.6 kernel, I was interested in seeing how the Fedora team did with this release.""
I really like it alot, so far no problems. The only thing I don't like about a fedora box is that I have to hunt around for weeks to get the necessary multimedia stuff in it. It ships with full blown mozilla, that will be gotten rid of here shortly in favor of firefox. Great distro but alot of post install work to make it into a usable desktop.
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I've been using it since tuesday, and my biggest complaint is CIPE being dropped, and the gui setup not being updated for the new IPSec tools.
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IMHO, they should have kept cipe ( depreciated maybe, removed next release ), but added the new userland tools and gui for the ipsec stuff in the kernel. Give people some wiggle room, for those of us using vpns.
Of course, it'd also be nice if they included support for pptp out of box...but I digress.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
For those who don't want to heed your advice about not installing I'd suggest they use lilo and change their bios settings to remove hdd auto detection. Set the params manually instead. That was the eventual solution I used to get around the problem with RC1. Those who lost all their data probably did themselves in by trying inappropriate corrective action to repair their partitions. I've hit several variations of the problem and lost nothing *except* on one system I had to recover xp and lost some of the patches. But no data or settings. I know I'm being unkind but losing data should not be a result of a damaged, but repairable, partition table.
so why has no one come up with a solution for this problem. now i'm a huge linux zealot and use FC1 (will upgrade as soon as the slashdot effect is gone from the download sites) so this isn't bashing. but it just amazes me that i've yet to come across a distro that, out of the box, has a browser with all the bells and whistles! and let's face it - the average jane wants all the bells and whistles! so enlighten me - why is this so hard? thank you, peace, good night.
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This isn't a matter of philosophy, it's a matter of legality. MP3 has licensing costs. So do most video formats. To get many windows media movies to play you have to borrow DLLs from windows.
If Fedora shipped this stuff w/o paying the licensing, they'd get their ass sued off.
If you want a free (beer) distro, you can't have costly items included. Besides, it's easy (run a specific command easy, not 'tweak the kernel and recompile' easy) to install mp3 support, mplayer, etc.
You either pay with money or your time. Want the distro free? then you gotta learn to install the extra stuff.
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
You might get a better/quicker response posting your question to the fedora-list rather than /.
I've always had good experiences getting my issues resolved via the list...
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And this is precisely the attitude that will keep Linux on the sidelines compared to Windows. I love tinkering with Linux and I love the community that has sprung up around it. But the absurtity of saying, "No problem recovering from a hosed hard drive due to a bug in the software...!" We're kidding ourselves if we think Linux will ever get anywhere with this blindness. Please don't interpret this as flaming - just calling it like it is...
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