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ryuzaki0
on from the whether-to-install-or-not dept.
Mark writes "A full review of the latest Fedora Core release, code named "Bordeaux", the Fedora Core 5, which has proven itself to be one of the best Linux Distributions out there. "
I downloaded FC5 a few days ago, installed it and tested for a bit. It took about two hours before I yelled "fuck it" and went back to Windows.
First, the installation is very slow. Needlessly so. I could understand if it was installing lots of packages, but Fedora comes with less packages than Ubuntu and takes more time. On the positive side, it was easy, but for some reason insisted on having all of my partitions in LVM.
On rebooting, GNOME started very quickly (in 3 seconds) but then the whole desktop just tended to feel...sluggish. Moving windows took ages to repaint, switching windows took a few seconds, for a lot of things you had to wait for the PC to catch up before you could do anything. While Fedora were boasting about OpenOffice.org being "optimised" in this release, it was just as slow as any other distro's installation of it.
Like I say, I went straight back to Windows, for the simple reason that it was too damn slow to be usable. 2000 or XP aren't anywhere near as sluggish as Fedora was, even Ubuntu was faster despite running roughly the same software. I couldn't see much evidence of the much-vaunted speed improvements, sadly.
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I downloaded FC5 a few days ago, installed it and tested for a bit. It took about two hours before I yelled "fuck it" and went back to Windows.
First, the installation is very slow. Needlessly so. I could understand if it was installing lots of packages, but Fedora comes with less packages than Ubuntu and takes more time. On the positive side, it was easy, but for some reason insisted on having all of my partitions in LVM.
On rebooting, GNOME started very quickly (in 3 seconds) but then the whole desktop just tended to feel...sluggish. Moving windows took ages to repaint, switching windows took a few seconds, for a lot of things you had to wait for the PC to catch up before you could do anything. While Fedora were boasting about OpenOffice.org being "optimised" in this release, it was just as slow as any other distro's installation of it.
Like I say, I went straight back to Windows, for the simple reason that it was too damn slow to be usable. 2000 or XP aren't anywhere near as sluggish as Fedora was, even Ubuntu was faster despite running roughly the same software. I couldn't see much evidence of the much-vaunted speed improvements, sadly.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --