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Fedora Core 2: Making it Work

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sad-that-you-need-a-tutorial-for-this dept.

Joe Barr writes "Linux.com is running a followup article by Ken Barber to his initial review of Fedora 2. This time he explains how to tame the GNOME and Fedora 2 problems he noted the first time around and get them both in working shape.."

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  1. Install Debian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    In my experience, the best way to get FC2 to work is to delete it and install Debian. It is quite possibly the buggiest distro I have tried this side of a Mandrake .0 release.

  2. Fedora Core 2: Making it Work by swagr · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    To play on an older joke:

    1. reformat.
    2. install Debian.

    --

    -... --- .-. . -.. ..--..
  3. Ah, the sweet smell of a flamewar in the making by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    If you intend to work in the GNOME environment I have some suggestions to mitigate some of its problems. You will need the gconf-editor package to do this, so if you're installing GNOME (I do, just in case some of its libraries are needed) be sure to include that package. You can also save yourself some time by installing nedit, in the Applications/Editors package group, as an alternative to gedit. But frankly, the best way to mitigate the myriad problems in GNOME 2.6 is to include KDE in your install, and make it the default environment at your first opportunity to do so. I find myself far more productive in KDE than in GNOME these days. It is wise to install KDE before creating any non-root users, in order to get KDE's goodies onto their default desktops.

    I agree with him, but I have the feeling others will not.

    Let the flames begin.

    *Sitsbackandopensbeercan*

  4. Re:The problem being? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You don't just change the setting for gnome, you delete it. Then you use KDE. And all is well ever after.

    GNOME supporters should get a clue from the fact that its lead is now a Microsoft shill, helping to spread .Net through Open Source means.