Submitted by “We have already used Fedora Core 6 Zod for several days now and have been extremely pleased by this release. The changes are extensive from default AIGLX + Compiz support to a great deal of performance improvements. Another nice feature is the immediate availability of Extras packages built for Fedora Core 6”. More here.
Fedora Core 6 Zod Review
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[…]Kneel before Zod!
Edited 2006-10-24 05:41
As in the guy who destroyed Superman’s home planet??? I don’t know why, but I really like the name.
Alternatively, they could just be Diablo II fans.
Is it a temp problem or is it there as a bug?!
I have installed it and found that NIC worked fine with firefox being able to view all web sites and my samba network browsing was fine too; but software updates was not successful.
Error message I recieved was:
“Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository gst-0.10-apps”
Which stopped me from installing packages from locally available ones on the DVD.
DVD.iso passed sha1sum and DVD+R disk passed mediacheck test of fedora; but had problems with unability to read a file from the DVD and unability to see CD 99?!!
If this is to be the true DVD from fedora then they missed up everything; I will wait to download the DVD.iso from fedora web site with fedora sha1sum files when it will be available. I will report then.
I’m having the same issue with my x86-64 installation in both KDE and Gnome. Glad to know I’m not alone…
It is not the problem not a bug because the repositories are not enabled yet. Wait until the release is officially announced.
Edited 2006-10-24 07:03
Just a guess, but I would say update repos are probably not available until Zod is officially released which is at 1400 GMT, or 6 AM PDT. So that would be a little over 6 hours from now. Just a guess, as it would make no sense to have any updates or repos available until the official release time.
Installing FC6 onto a XFS filesystem seems borked. For me, the installer did not create a sane XFS root partition, causing lots of errors to pop up during the first boot. Probably caused by some erroneous calculation of the partition size or something like that.
Solution (for me):
1. Boot into rescue mode
2. Build the partitions manually
3. Format the partitions manually using XFS
4. Restart, and boot from the CD/DVD again
5. When the installer asks to format the partitions again, say no, and request to have it mounted only
BTW. You can install FC6 onto a XFS partition using the xfs boot flag.
Edited 2006-10-24 08:28
I’m having a wierd issue where it wont mount the partition it just formatted.
Glad I was doing an ISO install, waste of a dvd blank.
It works fine, it doesn’t crash while installing like it did with FC5 (because of the Sound Blaster XFi), but i cannot get to work AIXGL/Compiz… i suppose there will be a way to fix that.
And i guess that we will not recieve any updates until it is officially released
“I will wait to download the DVD.iso from fedora web site with fedora sha1sum files when it will be available”
I recommend downloading the torrent, it is hashed already so it is a reliable source and it doesn’t use so much of the fedora project’s bandwidth. There was a reference to this on the fedora website somewhere.
I rather prefer to download the dvd from a mirror which i did yesterday.
Downloaded mine from a mirror last night. Burning it to CD now. Will install a little later.
I run it on amd64 using the open source radeon driver, aiglx works ok for me. I take it you have installed compiz? “yum install compiz” or use pirut to do it.
Ok, I’m surprised one of you geeks didn’t catch this mistake. Zod did NOT destroy Superman’s home world. The seismic instability of Krypton’s core is what destroyed the planet. Zod was one of several arch criminals who were exiled to the Phantom Zone by Superman’s dad, Jor-El. He frequently escapes to cause Superman great strife on Earth. In any case, i’m sure he uses Fedora!!
So you might say that Zod is rather unstable and is always breaking things?!
“””He frequently escapes to cause Superman great strife on Earth. In any case, i’m sure he uses Fedora!!”””
No. He forces Superman to use Fedora. 😉
I’m a bit fed up with the whole run lilo -b /dev/sda4 thing in Ubuntu Edgy every time I get a kernel update.
Does anyone know if FC6 support Macbooks?
I downloaded from a mirror yesterday, but I’m not sure if I want to delete the “mostly” working Ubuntu system.
Yes, it does. Make sure to use the Bootcamp method.
The review mentions windows wobble and something about a cube. I have no idea what those are, the review doesn’t elaborate and the screenshots weren’t helpful. The most I can figure about windows wobble is that it’s something drunk people might like. Can anyone help me out?
You can always rely on google for those sort of thing. But don’t ask if it makes you more productive, or why would anyone want that. It’s just cool and makes us believe we’re in the OSX/Vista eye candy competition.
You can always rely on google for those sort of thing.
Ironically, I followed your advice. One of the Google links opened a window that hung X for a second. Then, Firefox crashed.
So, I’m still not sure what “Windows Wobble” is… and I’m not sure I want to know, either. 🙂
Window wobble: when you drag a window and then let go of it, it will wobble back and forth for a second like it is a piece of jello. Not useful at all, but it does look neat for a little while. Until you get tired of it.
Cube: the virtual desktops are mapped onto the sides of a cube, so that when you switch to another you can see the animation of a cube rotating around. You can also sort of see 2 virtual desktops at a time if you drag the cube halfway around and look at it on the edge.
Edited 2006-10-24 14:34
I’m running FC6 on an ATi RS482 board using the onboard X300 graphics and I’m being told that desktop effects cannot be enabled.
Any idea why?
(Linux n00b)
Are you using the open source radeon drivers?
Where can I get it?
And how do I install it? This is my first real foray into Linux and the only thing I’ve been able to install so far is Opera. :-p
Hey does anyone know of someone that successfully upgraded from 5 to 6? I have programs running such as VMWare that need to work and not be wiped out?
to add the above to FCR6 follow the simple instructions below
http://www.linux-noob.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2533&st=0
cheers
anyweb (running Zod)
You can get metalinks for faster verified downloads at http://www.metalinker.org/samples.html#isos
You can get the i386 isos here: http://jackson.io/linux/fedora/core/6/i386/iso/.
Too bad, this sound card is still a hit or miss. Anyway, after an hour of playing around FC6, It’s a bit faster than my FC5 installation.
For those who want to know what aiglx looks like in action, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1iet8MWJr8
Eventually got FC6 (64-bit) onto my machine and had a play. Spotted quite a few issues:
* I can’t completely delete a comment from a GNOME task bar icon’s Comment field (right click on icon, then select Properties and delete all chars from the Comment field, click on Close and then hover over the icon again – original comment is still there!).
* Suspend doesn’t work (screen goes blank, machine stays on, can’t resume), but since it’s a desktop, I don’t ever need it. “Aha, I’ll edit Suspend out the main menu” (I’ve put the “Main Menu” option onto the task bar). I eventually find the menu editor (System -> Preferences -> More Preferences -> Menu layout), only to find it *cannot* edit the bottom 4 entries (“Lock Screen” to “Shut Down…”)…WTF?!
* Both 32-bit and 64-bit Firefox seem to have been installed and neither RPM can be easily replaced (too many dependencies on them) e.g. by a home-built Firefox 2.0 RPM I had to hand. What’s worse is that a) there’s no way to directly run 32-bit Firefox (e.g. why no “firefox.i386″ soft-link or something) and if you hack /usr/bin/firefox and remove the MOZ_LIB_DIR=”/usr/lib64” if clause, you can run 32-bit Firefox, but the menu items appear white on grey aka unreadable 🙁 ).
* livna enabled nicely (see rpm.livna.org for instructions), but then they’ve currently got a broken 64-bit kmod-ntfs (the common package is missing) 🙁
* Used livna to enable ATI stuff for 3D (kmod-fglrx), only to find that it generally didn’t work nicely with AIGLX. Anyone else noticed this (64-bit platform remember)? I’m back to the original radeon driver for the moment (I strongly suspect the “aticonfig” command is extremely dodgy – I really didn’t like the stuff it did to xorg.conf…).
* Azureus (in Fedora Extras) doesn’t let you install additional plug-ins, which makes it 100% useless (e.g. I use Speed Scheduler cos I get quotaed during peak times). Back to downloading Sun’s Java and the original Azureus as usual, ho hum (just spotted that has white menu text on grey too, hmmm…). BTW, the /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64×64/apps/azureus.png icon really shouldn’t have a light blue shaded background – this is surely a mistake because the bg turns up on the task bar and looks way out of place.
* Am I the only one who’d like to see some built-in support for popular PCI TV tuner cards/USB TV tuner sticks in Fedora? Yes, you can hack away like a demented rabbit trying to get the stuff to work and eventually spring the device into life, but distros like OpenSUSE just spot the device during install and appropriately enable it. Why can’t Fedora? Yes, I understand about firmware issues, but can’t they be resolved by having those downloadable on-the-fly from some third-party source such as livna (in order to keep the official Fedora repos “free”)?