Fedora 10

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Has anyone tried the preview release yet?

Only a few more weeks until the final release.... After having loads of hassle with Ubuntu, I might give Fedora a go again :D
 
Oxy said:
What hassle did you have with ubuntu? It's pretty much idiot proof :p
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Well initially (with 7.10) i had major hassle getting the graphics card working properly (nVIDIA).. spent hours fiddling around with xorg.conf and eventually gave up!

Tried 7.10 on my work PC, which worked fine (although i couldn't get the desktop effects to work on dual screens).

Tried to upgrade to 8.04, but for some reason NO liveCDs work.. they just boot, then i get a black desktop screen... CD spins down... and nothing! (get the same with 8.10 as well). I even tried adding the CDROM drive to the repository list - but that just brought up some random error (something about it not being a Debian CD)... lol

On the flipside, i recently installed Fedora 9 on a crappy old Dell laptop and everything worked fine! (Even wireless, which surprised me).

But yeah i'll probably try Ubuntu again, but I need a break for the time being ;)
 
I'm not too sure yet if i'll upgrade to version 10. Have got everything working the way I want it now, could say it's almost perfect lol.
Heres a question for you can I just update the kernel and have my system pretty much untouched, does it work like that?
 
yashiro said:
It will be equally buggy. Especially in the case of Video drivers. :)
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This.

I installed Fedora Core 9 a day after it was released and then had to wait over a month for hardware-accelerated graphics because the Fedora guys decided to ship with a beta/interim X.org release. The published solution at the time? "Downgrade X.org or wait"
 
I'm using the Fed10 preview at the moment and its been pretty stable. Only had one small issue with my video drivers but that was soon resolved with a reboot. So far so good :cool:
 
And there is absolutely no reason for it. Except breaking dependencies all over the place just to cut the support for previous Core, there is nothing architecturally different in it. The target seems to be at least two Cores for every Centos major.
 
I have tried it but ran into Video problems on my old Dell C400. Went back to Fedora 9.
My experience with Fedora 9 is the same as yours worked first time with all hardware on my equally crappy Dell Laptop. :D
 
I usually use every second release but I've had 8 working all this year fine and 9 at work so probably won't bother.

v0n said:
The target seems to be at least two Cores for every Centos major.
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Usually every three releases, FC3 became RHEL4, FC6 -> RHEL 5 so presumably version 6 next year will be based on Fedora 9.
 
I've been running a virtual machine of fedora 10, its not been too bad.

If you want stable and easy though, I'd suggest Fedora 9 and using easylife.

I have FC9 on my server and dual booted with vista 64 on my desktop. Very stable and very good.
 
I cannot get Fedora to boot at all, even off the live cd/dvd. They are a little too bleeding edge it seems.
 
Using it now.

I have to admit, it seems to be running brilliantly on ATI Video Cards but ditching the propriatry nvidia due due to the xorg update is going to put off a lot of users.

Everything else seems fine - but adding the rpmfusion repo's seems essential.


Fedora 10 will be the base of RHEL6 too btw.
 
I am not a fan of Ubuntu or Fedora they seem very cluttered to me, I have been using and will continue using Arch Linux, which is a great lightweight but up to date distro with an excellent package management tool.
 
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