Very impressed!

[kansasnoob]

About two years ago I delved back into Linux for the first time since trying Lindows nearly a decade ago. After trying several distros I landed on Ubuntu but I've kept on multi-booting/distro-hopping since then.

I do think I tried Fedora once before and possibly found it too complicated for me, but I just installed Fedora 12 in a multi-boot mess:

lance@lance-desktop:~$ sudo update-grub
[sudo] password for lance:
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found background image: moreblue-orbit-grub.png
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-14-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-14-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-13-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-13-generic
Found Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition on /dev/sda1
Found Ubuntu 9.10 (9.10) on /dev/sda11
Found Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS (8.04) on /dev/sda13
Found Ubuntu 9.04 (9.04) on /dev/sda5
Found Linux Mint 7 Gloria - Main Edition (7) on /dev/sda7
Found Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition on /dev/sdb1
Found Fedora release 12 (Constantine) on /dev/sdb2
done


In fact my main reason for installing Fedora was to test Ubuntu's grub2 since so many people report problems doing so but I had no REAL problems!

Anyway, the purpose of this post is just to say I had only two small "niggles" installing. The first was when the (Live CD) installation was complete I could not eject the disc on reboot. I finally had to insert another Live CD (ubuntu 9.04) into my CD ROM while Fedora was running in the DVD/CD RAM drive so I could successfully eject the Fedora Live CD.

The second was installing updates but a quick search found this:

http://n3.nabble.com/Software-Update-Fails-td122680.html#a122680

And then updates completed as they should. I then followed this guide:

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-fedora-12-i686-gnome

except I only installed about 10% of those packages. I already have a good idea what I want.

Anyway I'm very impressed! Your devs did really, really good, and the documentation is second to none. This is a really great distro!

[Hlingler]

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[kansasnoob]

Don't worry, I'll have lots and lots of questions. I've become so accustomed to APT that YUM and RPM are like learning a foreign language to me.