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Fedora 9 a Bit Behind the Curve On Installation

Posted by timothy on from the click-here-but-only-once dept.

bsk_cw writes "Today, many Linux users are getting blasé about the ease with which they can install Linux. Possibly, they've been spoiled by distributions such as Ubuntu, which is actually easier to install than Windows. Unfortunately, Fedora 9, the latest version of this community edition of Red Hat, was a bit too much of a blast from the past for Computerworld's James Turner." (Except for bits about the installation, the review is actually quite positive.)

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  1. Shoot! by XanC · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine what Fedora 9 would have done to UbuntuDupe's hard drive!!

  2. Re:Of course it's easier to instal than Windows! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "I have a hell of a time finding disks, even at a tech school" that's exactly where you won't fin floppies, try in the literature school or something you might find it there...

  3. Re:Reading the frackin article..... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...and it certainly didn't seem like the rest was "Positive".


    0.001 > 0. Any questions? :)
  4. Re:Wait a minute...this is Slashdot by croddy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you kidding? We're definitely still allowed to bash Linspire!

  5. Re:I guess he never installed Slackware 3.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about the old Gentoo installer?

    You know, a webpage full of instructions.

  6. Re:Reading the frackin article..... by The+Master+Control+P · · Score: 3, Funny

    What about for large values of zero?

  7. Re:I guess he never installed Slackware 3.... by mrbluze · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anybody remember THAT installer? There was no "back" option on most of the screens. If you screwed up, you had to start over from scratch. You mean you had to download Linux From Scratch if you decided you wanted a back button? I didn't know LFS had a back button.
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  8. Re:Of course it's easier to instal than Windows! by swillden · · Score: 4, Funny

    So your big complaint is that a 7 year old OS (SP2 was released in 2004) doesn't install on a device that was released 3 years after it was? And of course, that hardware wasn't widely available until probably a year or two later.

    Damned right. If these idiots would just download a more recent release of Windows XP, with all of the updated drivers in place, they'd have no trouble at all.

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  9. Re:That's not the ONLY curve Fedora's behind on by doktorjayd · · Score: 2, Funny

    heh,

    doesnt that just indicate more people have to do more searches for issues with ubuntu than fedora? :)