FC5 is it an improvement???

jamdusr · #1 27th January 2006, 04:42 PM

Hi Fedora users. I really liked FC3 but FC4 was a poor follow-up in my opinion.
In fact FC4 even freezes on my homebuilt sempron-maybe it's the nvidia drivers but I multiboot about 7 distros and none of the others is as bad as FC4. Hey I'm not interested in a flame war just wondering if anyone has enough experiance with FC5 to say if it's worth downloading and burning. Thanks

I guess I should have said none of the other distros I fool around with freezes my computer.
It's not that I think fedora is bad-far-far from it. It just not as dependable as FC3 was on my machine.

***bob*** · #2 27th January 2006, 04:51 PM

(moved to FC5 - Dev)

BandC · #3 27th January 2006, 10:06 PM

Isn't it kinda early to ask this? I mean it's not even released yet.

Jman · #4 27th January 2006, 10:14 PM

It is very early. Wait until the release and then read the release notes.

**Finalzone** · #5 27th January 2006, 10:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamdusr

Hi Fedora users. I really liked FC3 but FC4 was a poor follow-up in my opinion.
In fact FC4 even freezes on my homebuilt sempron-maybe it's the nvidia drivers but I multiboot about 7 distros and none of the others is as bad as FC4. Hey I'm not interested in a flame war just wondering if anyone has enough experiance with FC5 to say if it's worth downloading and burning. Thanks

I guess I should have said none of the other distros I fool around with freezes my computer.
It's not that I think fedora is bad-far-far from it. It just not as dependable as FC3 was on my machine.

Final version of FC5 will be ready for march 2006 roughly after Gnome 2.14.x. Currently, the test version is improving compared to FC4 when it comes to yum, anaconda, pirut (the new frontend package manager) and new apparence. Since test release is about finding many bugs as possible in order to fix, it is not recommended for production use. Hopefull more testers will be around to improve the distro quality.

jamdusr · #6 27th January 2006, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by BandC

Isn't it kinda early to ask this? I mean it's not even released yet.

Yeah it is. I actually didn't post this in the developer forum-it was moved. Just hoping to hear from anyone who had experiance with FC5 test2. BTW I'm using FC4 right now and it's been ok. Sort of unpredictable when and if it freezes.

***bob*** · #7 28th January 2006, 12:11 AM

I moved it here because this Forum is to "Discuss everything on Fedora Core 5 development cycle and test releases." Seemed like you wanted to discuss it. And, I just WANTED to move it, and I could, so I did.

***Firewing1*** · #8 28th January 2006, 12:28 AM

Hey,
Personally I think FC5 is gonna be a great release. From what I've heard, there's going to be many speed + stablility improvements.
Well worth a burn + install,.
Firewing1

lsatenstein · #9 28th January 2006, 01:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamdusr

Hi Fedora users. I really liked FC3 but FC4 was a poor follow-up in my opinion.
In fact FC4 even freezes on my homebuilt sempron-maybe it's the nvidia drivers but I multiboot about 7 distros and none of the others is as bad as FC4. Hey I'm not interested in a flame war just wondering if anyone has enough experiance with FC5 to say if it's worth downloading and burning. Thanks

I guess I should have said none of the other distros I fool around with freezes my computer.
It's not that I think fedora is bad-far-far from it. It just not as dependable as FC3 was on my machine.

Since FC5 test2 is on my 2nd hard disk, I boot it daily. There is no freezing for any application, though there are some that I have not tested or installed.

I like this distribution. It is fast, because of being built with a new optimising C / C++ compiler.

Leslie

hardrod04 · #10 28th January 2006, 01:50 AM

FC5 is running pretty fast. The only problem is most essential applications like mplayer won't compile properly. If you used the old FC4 rpm, the binaries will run but with problems. I've been compiling most of the applications from scratch and only had a few success (finally xine/ffmpeg compiled after a gcc update)

And the SELinux thing breaks too many stuff, drives not mounting, flash not working, all related to how "enhanced" permissions problems.

hasbeard · #11 28th January 2006, 01:57 AM

Does anyone know what version of the gstreamer engine will be standard with Fedora Core 5? I want to use the new mp-3 support plugin Fluendo has available, but it only works with gstreamer10 (whatever it is).

**Finalzone** · #12 28th January 2006, 03:26 AM

Likely gstreamer-0.10.

smfinley · #13 28th January 2006, 03:47 AM

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Originally Posted by hardrod04

And the SELinux thing breaks too many stuff, drives not mounting, flash not working, all related to how "enhanced" permissions problems.

At the moment there's a problem with Flash and Java related to SELinux in FC5T2. For Flash and Java run "system-config-securitylevel" as root and as your user. For each (root and your user) on the SELinux tab under "Modify SELinux Policy" click "Compatibility", then tick the check boxes for "Allow executables to run with executable stack" and "Allow the use of shared libraries with Text Relocation". Then click the "OK" button.

homey · #14 28th January 2006, 02:52 PM

I think FC5 is going to be the Greatest even though FC4 was just fine IMHO!
They are plugging away at it
Yesterday's kernel fixed my iptables script failure.
Today's KDE update brought back the desktop auto display of my usb stick.

zikade · #15 28th January 2006, 04:27 PM

First Impressions with FC5test2:

It looks nice, in fact it looks nicer than any other Linux-Distribution I ever had. It even feels smoother. Installation (IF it completes) is much easier. The applications, which are installed as default, cover almost everything an ordinary user would need.

On the other hand: it is not finished, a couple of problems remain which are pretty annoying, like printing from evolution crashes evolution.

Then, of course, the usual: no mp3 support; flash & java - you can get them to work, sure, but you have to know linux and FC a bit more.