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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. neat by falkryn · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nifty timing, since I just finished installing Core 2 on my box a few minutes ago. Not much in the article that informed me as such though.

    I seem to notice an emerging pattern with Fedora releases though. RCs, avoid them all, they won't work properly, unless you really do want to do bug testing (not a bad thing). Final releases, avoid them too, at least for about a month or so. Let the updates filter in, and then you should be good. Plus, that gives a good amount of time for the 3rd party apt/yum repositories to starting filling up, which they seem to be doing rather nicely lately (though of course not on a par with debian, but good none the less).

  2. Fedora 2 - Slow DNS problem by fforw · · Score: 5, Informative
    After installing Fedora Core 2 I had the problem that DNS queries out of Mozilla e.g. were rather slow (several seconds) while
    nslookup www.google.de
    seemed to work okay.

    the solution to this problem was that FC2 enables IPv6 by default which led to the noticable delay. After adding:

    alias net-pf-10 off
    to /etc/modprobe.conf to switch off IPv6 everything was fine.
    --
    while (!asleep()) sheep++
    1. Re:Fedora 2 - Slow DNS problem by molarmass192 · · Score: 5, Informative

      FYI SuSE 9.1 users, ipv6 is also enabled by default. Follow the parent poster's recs if you want to disable it.

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      Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws-Plato
  3. is it really for newbies? by zogger · · Score: 5, Informative

    I more think of fedora as a distro more for advanced or intermediate hobbyists than for newbies. It's close to being ready out of the box for joe everybody, but not quite there yet, and even then, if they follow their roadmap, will always have testing/unstable aspects to it, done on purpose. It's for people who don't mind and want to be beta testers, people in the linux enthusiast community. It's supposed to be one step ahead of the official redhat "stable" version, and even the redhat stable version is just now being touted officially as suitable for a corporate desktop with professional IT admins on staff, not for the home user, not yet anyway. I use fedora, and I know I'll have to tweak some stuff when I get it and install it. It's still pretty dang good though, I haven't run into any show stoppers yet with it,any that really concern me anyway, and I'd consider myself only barely above newbie status, especially on the command line and being able to diagnose and repair/modify things. Media playback for all the formats gives me the most grief. Fixing the MP3 "problem" was easy, geting other propietary media formats to work cleanly is another issue entirely. I don't have a lot of USB or wireless, etc, so I can't comment there.