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Fedora Core 6 Review
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?"
its pretty darn good. there's only the occational...[carrier lost]
yes. Stick the CD in, reboot and select "Upgrade".
Sorry, that's too complicated. I need a CD that sticks itself in the slot.
>> Setting up the Nvidia drivers was way more problematic than it should have been
And yea verily as the sun shall rise in the East and the Pope is Catholic and bears crap in the woods, yea verily the setting up of the Nvidia drivers shall be way more problematic than it should be, thus is it written, amen.
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I'd say so...
warden root # uptime
16:00:49 up 532 days
I need a CD that sticks itself in the slot.
And I supose you're going to be fussy about which slot, ain'cha?
KFG
I can give you the article summary, and you can save yourself a click:
"Error establishing a database connection"
man, that sounds yummy.
Fights like a schizophrenic 3 year old.
yes. Stick the CD in, reboot and select "Upgrade".
Sorry, that's too complicated. I need a CD that sticks itself in the slot.
May I suggest the Soviet Russian Linux distribution?
The last time I tried upgrading Linux from a CD that stuck itself in the slot I ended up with a broken floppy drive!
Would Debian or Ubuntu perhaps be to your liking, then? Because it's quite easy to upgrade those systems over the Internet without a CD.
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