Fedora 10 Preview

[djblack]

Not really here to post any problems. I've had a couple issues with RPMFusion, but I know it's not fully released so I'm not complaining...but....

I would like to say Fedora 10 is looking like the devs are hitting one out of the park. The Preview is much more stable than the Beta, the artwork is finally looking different than F9, boot time is quick...etc.

On my first try of playing an MP3, it auto-magically asked if I wanted to search for a codec, it installed the GStreamer-plugins-ugly package and away I went. My linux server has a Samba server running with a share for all my MP3s. F9 would not stream them accross the network, but F10 is doing it beautifully. I'm not sure if maybe I didn't have something configured properly on F9, but I know it's working in F10.

I've always thought Fedora was a great distro, but was always a pain in the rear to get working as a Windows replacement....at least for a person who's a bit linux-tarded like me. Which left some people leaning toward other easy distros. F10 looks to be much easier and more "automatic" for the newbie.

Anyhoo...I'll stop rambling now. Just wanted to puke some thoughts out there. :)

[wvn]

Hi,

Was using beta till yesterday and today i switched on the laptop to do some work and i received a bunch of updates, probably upgrading to preview snapshot.

i love F as wel but F10 is giving me a huge headache so far. Very very slow and it is very hard for me to work. Maybe i will go back to F9 again and wait for the release.

[kevaljd]

I agree, but I would like to contribute via bugzilla!

depends on what u like!

[ryptyde]

Been running F10 snap2 for 3 weeks now on an Acer Aspire One and kept it updated since install and it works fine. Today downloaded the F10 Preview Release LiveCD and installed it to a usb thumbdrive from the Acer AO to see how the "encrypted persistent home" worked and found that during the initial boot sequence you are asked for the password you created when you wrote the image to the usb device before it will proceed. That will at least give you a measure of security if you loose your usb device.

Currently waiting for jigdo to finish downloading and assembling the F10 preview DVD that is destined for another Acer laptop currently running F9, will try the ext4 file system and see how it feels. :)

[Demz]

Hi,

Was using beta till yesterday and today i switched on the laptop to do some work and i received a bunch of updates, probably upgrading to preview snapshot.

i love F as wel but F10 is giving me a huge headache so far. Very very slow and it is very hard for me to work. Maybe i will go back to F9 again and wait for the release.

an did you switch off some services you do not need like i said?. do you use bluetooth?.. infrared? .. only thing i can think of why it'd be slow is you have unwanted services running that you dont need

[wvn]

an did you switch off some services you do not need like i said?. do you use bluetooth?.. infrared? .. only thing i can think of why it'd be slow is you have unwanted services running that you dont need

Hi D, sorry for the delay, i was.... reinstalling :) F10 preview from scratch. It runs nicely now. Maybe it was the beta-to-preview upgrade that screwed things up.

thanx buddy

[bilbobagins]

Hi,Just couldn`t resist it . Have installed F10 preveiw, so far its ok, the sound works better in F10 ,F9 was not so loud? for some reason, wont expect the Repositories to be running properly unill realease day. But IN AM PLEASED so far..So I have java on and realplayer ( for BBC) I notice Ubunt8.10 does it in the release without realplayer. But Im pleasesd
Thanks developers.
Bilbo.:)

[stefan1975]

well I decided to install F10 preview on my test pc (compaq d330) with intel i810 graphics and could not get it to boot at all, it just freezes at starting X. there is already a blocker-bug for this in Bugzilla I noticed so I added my xorg.0.log there (441087) but i was a little disappointed it did not work smoothly, I also got the text based boot in plymouth so that did not look too nifty either.

I am hoping final will be great and replace F9 on my main desktop and latop (both on nvidia so not bothered by the bug, but also no ATI so no KMS/graphical plymouth either i fear).


what does frustrate me immensely is that considering i wrecked my test desktop i decided to install ubuntu 8.10 on it, and it works *so* great out of the box on this system, everything from sound, to 3d enabled intel compositing effects. I did not expect an experience this smooth on a pc that always gave me trouble. Further the fonts are *really* good as well.

I do hope F10 final will be just as great, since I greatly prefer the RPM way of doing things and not type yum all the time in ubuntu's console or the root password when it asks for my sudo credentials but it does raise the bar for F10 in my book, i was very unexpectedly pleasantly surprised by ibex.

[Demz]

Hi D, sorry for the delay, i was.... reinstalling :) F10 preview from scratch. It runs nicely now. Maybe it was the beta-to-preview upgrade that screwed things up.

thanx buddy

that's good it works nicely for you but that's weird that you had to do that

[GODhack]

I can not wait for 10 final any more... so impatient. I think I will install Preview on my work system. :D

[kevaljd]

Just a common question...

Currently my distro shows... Fedora 9.93 while booting...
Will it upgrade itself to 10?
What is Preview, is it more advanced than 9.93?
I hope, my second question is making sense.

[djblack]

Fedora 9.93 is normal to see for a development level of F10. As another example.....

When F9 went into development, it used 8.XX versions....starting with 8.90 as the first testing release, then 8.91, 8.92 and so on. Development versions of F8 were 7.90, 7.91, ....etc. Eventually F9.93 will become F10.

The "Preview" release is really just a snapshot of F10 during it's development. But 9.93 and the Preview are really the same thing...one is not better or newer than the other. If you installed the Beta now, then updated the installation from the Rawhide repo, you would end up with the same thing as an updated Preview release.

New packages are released into Rawhide pretty much every day. You could just keep updating into the final version of F10, but I wouldn't recommend it. You might be just fine with that, but my results have always been better if I install the final release from scratch.....this is however just my opinion and you might be perfectly satisfied with just updating into the final.