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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?"
After spending days fixing broken crap and searching for missing .rpm's Red Hat Core was fantastic! Except for the fact that it didn't detect my wireless LAN adapter, but hey, a little bit of fantastic goes a long way right?
Fortunately Ubuntu practically installs itself and works without any fixing, so I was able to roll back to a working OS in about 30 minutes.
How about not using a taskbar in the first place? Why do people accept these obvious clones of Microsoft interfaces?
"Sufferin' succotash."
Are they telling us that Linux, that Open Source software, that the stuff not made by Microsoft has bugs? I am shocked, I tell you. Analyzing the past five years of OSS development, there is little doubt that Linux is still a long way from posing any serious threat to Microsoft's hegemony. The problems with Linux begin even before you get a chance to use the OS. So far only SuSE managed to produce a relatively simple and reliable installation process. If an average PC user with no Unix skills cannot even install Linux, should we be surprised by the tiny market niche occupied by this OS? Instead of fixing numerous bugs and improving the installation process, Linux developers seem to be spending an abnormal amount of time adding eye candy. Are they building the new Windows?