Fedora Rocks!

mustangfanatic · #1 19th October 2004, 03:57 AM

Just thought I would express my affection for Fedora Core. It's my favorite distro out there, good work guys

imdeemvp · #2 19th October 2004, 06:21 AM

besides the lastest kernel not being very good i have no complaints.....everything works fine i even play ut2003 in fedora

fc = 1
mdk = 2nd
slack 10 = 3rd
winodws = well didnt make the top ten too many fumbles ....

mustangfanatic · #3 19th October 2004, 07:02 AM

Yeah man a few days I got rid of FC2 to try suse cause some ppl were talking about how nice it is. Well let's just say after 1 day of that I was back on FC2.

sideways · #4 19th October 2004, 03:58 PM

After trying many linuxes over the years, and having returned to linux after more than a year, I have to say I'm very impressed by the latest Fedora package (Well almost, Fedora Core 3, test 2)

Love the dvd install

Some probs with Grub (dual booting with WindowsXP), resolved for me (at least) by selecting lba32 mode in the Advanced options for Grub (at install time).

I'm quite happy with compiling packages from source rather than using rpm, but both are fine, even used yum for one package (after finding a decent yum.conf file - the default didn't even work)

The Fedora desktop looks great (KDE for me), Firefox browser is superb once you've got the main plugins working (Flash, Java and RealPlayer)

xmms + mp3 support is as good as winamp.
mplayer supports all the video codecs I could throw at it, plays DVDs without probs also.

I have a lot of comic archives (.cbz, .cbr - just zip and rar archives really), so a decent comic viewer is desirable. Comical 0.40 does the job (as well as CViewer for windows) but you need to compile the source and this requires wxWidgets installed first, so it's a little tedious to install, but the result is worth it

Many other apps installed working flawlessly.

As long as I can browse the internet in comfort (FireFox), read pdf documents (xpdf), read comics (comical 0.40), see movies (mplayer), listen to mp3s (xmms), develop C++ algorithms (gcc + vim(!)), search p2p (mldonkey + kmldonkey), play a few games (xscrabble, yahoo games site), mess about with graphics (gimp), burn cds/dvds (K3B), rip audio CDS (grip) , I'm happy enough.

Ug · #5 19th October 2004, 04:03 PM

Moved to "Fedora Focus".

jcstille · #6 19th October 2004, 04:32 PM

It is my favorite distro by far. Really nice to use, and fun to play with

GreyGeek · #7 19th October 2004, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by sideways

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Firefox browser is superb once you've got the main plugins working (Flash, Java and RealPlayer)
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I'm curious... what did you copy to .mozilla/plugins to get the java_vm to work?
I copied .../ns610-gcc32/ libjavaplugin_oji.so from j2sdk1.4.2_04 but that didn't work.

sideways · #8 19th October 2004, 07:05 PM

ok, I'm not postive if this is the only link I had to make, but I did this (as root)

cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

i have jre v1.5.0 installed which may or may not help http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

When Fedora Core 3 Final is released, I will reinstall and make notes of EVERY step I take this time, since I realise it may be useful not only for myself but others (Having been away from linux for a year and because this was a test release I didn't make notes of each and every fix required to get things working)

Jman · #9 20th October 2004, 01:48 AM

Hey, we don't code it, we just make it work.

Kudos to the Red Hat developers for all their hard work.

imdeemvp · #10 22nd October 2004, 09:01 AM

and to make it work in the process we get our hands dirty and lose some sleep...

gabbman · #11 25th November 2004, 02:04 PM

I have to say after spending many hours installing and tweaking many of the lastest, that FC-3 has found a permanent home on my HD.
I have generally always favoured KDE but chose to install both, then I followed Stanton Finley's
Installation guide and adjusting the howto as I was using the default kde, I believe I have one of the best out of the box experiences for a clean install that I have experienced in a long time.
Everthing is working so well to my liking that I can even enjoy computing in gnome at the moment.

Uptodate works like a charm. Just a couple of clicks, not like YaST which to me was clumsy and awkward.
Yum made the install of apt and synaptic one of the easiest I have seen on the non debian based.
This is the first Linux O/S that I have been able to print to my smb://MSHOME HP-PSC1210 printer over my home network. (On the first try without having to tweak anything).
Plus help or info is only a Click away with the great folks in here.

Thanks Fedora Core team, and FedoraForum folks for a very easy install and personalize tweaking to my liking experience.

vesselinpeev · #12 25th November 2004, 02:18 PM

Despite several issues, most of which I managed to resolve (I have posted the issues/solutions here on the forum), Fedora Core 3 is the #1 up-to-date Linux distribution, and is suitable for all kinds of jobs (I intend to use it for heavy programming, so naturally my requirements are high). Congratulations to all people involved in making Fedora Core 3 a reality.