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Fedora Core 6 Review

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the doing-shiny-before-function dept.

luna6 writes to tell us that they have posted a pretty thorough review of Fedora Core 6 with the installation procedure and even a few work arounds for the couple of bugs encountered during the process to help users get up and running smoothly. From the article: "To sum up Fedora Core 6, I will say that once you have it set up properly FC 6 runs very impressively. I had the impression that FC 6 may have been rushed, just because of the handful of minor bugs that appeared. The mixup of arches, i586 & i686 was weird and the first system update having a update conflict was a glaring error, even though it was easy to fix. Setting up the Nvidia drivers was way more problematic than it should have been. I should also note that Mandriva 2007 worked from the start with AIGLX and their 3D drake worked flawlessly. With that stated once the minor problems were fixed, Fedora Core 6 worked as well as any Linux distro I have tried and the visuals were second to none. Well except the default icons...but we have something to look forward to in FC 7 now don't we?"

3 of 205 comments (clear)

  1. Can I upgrade without reinstalling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If the answer's no, I'm sticking with Debian that had this ability for almost a decade

  2. Re:Setting up the Nvidia drivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ha, true true.

    Meanwhile, in the world of the normals, Vista RC2 somehow or another figures out how to run my NVidia card without any such problematics.

  3. Reviewer Idiot II by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wow, the 3D stuff gave good visuals dude. That is what makes an awesome distro man.

    Go back to Windows or even the f'in Mac.