FC4. Wow, Impressive!

[ScottishCaptain]

Well this is somewhat of a sad day for me.

I've been a fan of Fedora for a few years (ever since Core 2). And Fedora has never let me down. I've installed it on countless systems, and it has never burped or hiccuped.

So, I bought myself a nice, new, Dual Opteron box.

Then I thought I'd try Fedora Core 4.

Having been not too impressed with FC4 Tests, I can say that nothing has changed.

My box runs the following hardware:
Dual Opteron 244 Processors (Rev CG, DDR400 support)
512mb Dual Channel RAM (DDR400, ECC Registered)
120GB SATA Baracuda/NCQ Seagate
Silicon Image SIL3114 SATA Chipset
Tyan S2875 Motherboard
eVGA Nvidia 6800 128mb AGP8X Video Card

First off. What a dumb bug. I have to feed Fedora garbage before bootup, otherwise it drops its load and panics. Okay....

asdhjalsdajsdhjkasd <enter>
*wait*
<enter>

*Fedora boots into installer*

*White screen*.

Wow. 128mb of 6800 Goodness and I see Fedora really knows how to kick that badboy into overdrive. A whopping whitescreen. WOW. Dear jeebus, that must have taken some serious GPU power to display.

I see I'm not the only one. And the solution? Oh, yah, simple. Install in textmode. Edit your grub lines, stick X into FBDev mode, and enjoy.

I realize perfectly fine that I can make this work. But I'm feeling lazy today. And AFAIK this has NEVER happened before FC4. I shouldn't have to type garbage to make it boot. I shouldn't have to run my card in FBDev mode, let alone skip that wonderful looking GUI Installer.

So my question is this. When are all these stupid bugs going to be fixed so FC4 is usable? Seems to be like the FC team took a step back on the evolutionary ladder of a real OS here. Or has FC4 already plunged into the depths of hell and I should just wait for FC5 or FC6?

I'm going back to FC3. Because it works.

FC4 is crap and I'm sorry. But this sucks. I hoped FC wouldn't dissapoint me but it has.

[SlowJet]

You need more memory.

SJ

[jtang613]

I wonder how long it will take this thread to deteriorate into mindless flaming?

I wonder if the fact that I raised the question will prevent it from occurring?

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

m2c,
Jason

[BladeMelbourne]

I've been a fan of Fedora for a few years (ever since Core 2)

Can I borrow your time machine?

[tomcat]

I don't know, but usually when you buy a new computer with the latest hardware there is always the possibility that certain things are not yet 100% bugfree and supported on that box. I guess if you run Fedora 4 on an older model (maybe six months old) you won't experience any problems. But at least this is my experience with ANY Linux distro I used so far. The older the machine, the less you need to tweak the install procedure (if you have enough RAM, of course)

[ScottishCaptain]

Originally Posted by BladeMelbourne

Can I borrow your time machine?

No. But you can buy one online.

Go get yourself a Hyper Dimensional Resonator.

[dwflo]

Originally Posted by jtang613

I wonder how long it will take this thread to deteriorate into mindless flaming?

I wonder if the fact that I raised the question will prevent it from occurring?

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

m2c,
Jason

I can see it comming. I will stay out of this one.
I think, had the original poster did a little searching, he might of seen what could happen, or maybe he want's to provoke an incedent!

Dave

[ScottishCaptain]

Well I'll eat my foot this time...

I did get FC4 working. Quite wonderfully actually. Doom 3 really smokes my P4 Gaming rig.

I take it all back. FC4 rocks. I'm running it right now.

I was just pissed at the time because this machine was acting up (I guess it was just "new machine jitters"). It has seemed to settle down now and is perfectly stable (and freaking fast).

Regardless of the fact, those are still two nastey bugs that threw a wrench in my gears. It was a emotional experience having to use (*sob*) Textmode install versus that nice Graphical installer. Meh, well, shouldn't have to install for years (hopefully). My only other complaint was the lack of X Screensavers (yum install xscreen* did the trick).

Minor things, compared to what I've been through with Windows Server 2003 64 Bit Ed over the past 3 days (shudder).

Now time to go setup a few dedicated gaming servers .

[dwflo]

Well that is good news. Was hoping things would work out for you SC, didn't want to see another emotional catastrophe.

Dave