Fedora 9

Gave up on Fedora Core 4, although that was right at release.

A lot of distros are cutting edge but Fedora just seemed a bit too much, i realise it's a test bed for RHEL but i like my day to day OS' stable
 
I was planning on giving Fedora 9 a go tonight, problem is Virgin Media have traffic managed my download so the DVD image wont complete its download until the early hours.

Roll on tomorrow.
 
I downloaded it this afternoon, then realised I have no blank dvds left :( So tomorrow I will burn and install it, dual boot on my lappy..
 
Decided to give this a go myself and im actually typing this from Fedora 9 right now.

Upon boot I had 1 error saying something like 'usb - would not accept - error', with an error number of either 71 or 79, I cant remember. I had a usb flash disk connected but it seems to have been mounted fine once the OS had fully started.

Everything seems to be running fine on an Intel G31 chipset and C2D 8200 but I guess that is to be expected. Must admit I do like the look and feel of it, especially when compared to my normal install of Ubuntu.
 
I tried to install Fedora 9 on my laptop, failed at some point due to a problem with python 2.5. I seem to be having trouble with the latest crop of distros, Ubuntu 8.04 wouldn't install either, back to OpenSuse or Gentoo.
 
Currently running FC8 on my work laptop and everything worked straight away, might leave it a while before trying 9
 
Fedora 9 is quite impressive, seems more finely tuned than previous versions.

kvm/qemu and virt-manager is buggy as anything though, so slow too. :S No idea whats going on there. Had to disable SELinux too to be able to create Virtual Machine disk files, despite enabling all the kvm/qemu booleans.
 
I'm downloading this now, I'm not too experienced with linux but this seems good and a change from Ubuntu. Going to set it up in a Virtual Machine later :).
 
Anyone tried the latest vmware workstation 6.5 beta on it yet? reason I ask is that I run my work XP VM which i'm using as i type and want to be sure it will work again if i move to FC9?
 
Fedora is one of the only Distro's I have tried recently that simply works on machines with software RAID. This laptop is setup as RAID 0 and getting it working with Ubuntu was frankly a nightmare, didnt even have too configure anything with Fedora...

Liking the OpenGL 3D desktop effects too.
 
Installed this on my test machine T'other day...
Nice backdrop & intro sound.... Gnome interface so familiar with it.

Couple of days later.....

So far, it's a pain in the ar2e. I realise most of it is because I'm not familiar with Fedora but generally stuff works in the same way... It is using Gnome. The add/remove GUI is uber kerrap. clicking on, say "internet" or "graphics" should display all available applications under those categories but it doesn't. It loads.. something. and leaves the description page blank. So you have to google "something" for fedora just to find out whats available.

Compiz is installed but no effects work. This (test) machine is a lowly A7X with a nv5200 agp card in it.

Most of the effects work in Ubuntu (same machine. I just added another hard drive, disconnecting the ubuntu drive first and installed fedora on that)

I have been unable to get Mp3 playback in Amarok even following their numpty guides and adding Livna to the sources etc. Mp3 does work in RhythmBox though so at least there is a player to do the trick.

The firefox/flash auto install option just threw a hissy fit as well. Ubuntu used to do this too up until Hardy Heron, so as this is the latest version of Fedora I'd have thought that little issue would have been solved as well.
The wireless card was auto detected and after some faffar2ing around I got it to work ok.

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