After a few coasters because of the bad quality CDs we bought at Fry’s for 8 bucks some time ago (avoid the “GQ, Great Quality” brand at all costs, they only seem to work well with selected burners no matter the burning speed used), I burned and installed Fedora Core 1 successfully. Update: Get mp3 support for your Fedora’s XMMS 1.2.8 from here (mirror). Also, here are four screenshots:First, second, third, fourth.
General impressions are positive for Fedora, it is a more polished OS than previous versions, at least visually.
Cool stuff: faster overall, metacity is faster too, the mouse code has being reworked and it gives a great smooth feeling on X. More polished UI.
Big downers: Samba 3 still doesn’t work for me via Konqueror or Nautilus (smb-client command line tool kinda works better), because it insists on connecting on my VMWare’s virtual IP address of 10.0.0.19 instead of my XP’s real 10.0.0.10 IP on my home network (even when I do “smb://10.0.0.10”). It manages to connect once every 10-15 efforts (and asks for my password a zillion times, for a shared folder that does not require a password) and even then I can’t do anything with the files. Mac OS X, Slackware and… Lindows don’t exhibit the problem connecting to that machine.
Overall, Fedora worths your attention.
Update: XMMS skips when playing music files via the net (radio) when I open a new nautilus window or navigating through directories, or when loading a new web page. Pretty poor multimedia performance if I may say so. Machine is an AthlonXP 1600+ with 256 MB RAM and DMA is on for all drives.
Fedora still has about an hour left to finish downloading but, can anyone tell me if the module “usbvnetr” is in fedora? That’s my usb network card’s driver.If not, I will have to stick with mandrake for now.
Eugenia,
Did you grab it using the tracker from the Duke site? If so, it sounds like your problem is that you tried to burn out CD1 before CD2 and CD3 finished downloading — and even though it looked like the CD1 file was complete, it really wasn’t.
After redh’s famous statement I might use Fedora if I knew redh had not control over it. But, it is probably a dead end.
If you read the release notes, you’ll see that lilo is deprecated in Fedora Core 1. It was actually supposed to be completely gone, but GRUB is missing some functionality, particularly relating to RAID setups that made Red Hat decide to leave lilo in for one more round. They’re planning to get GRUB up to speed and drop lilo for good when FC2 is released.
At any rate, to get access to lilo instead of grub, type “linux lilo” when starting the install.
“If you read the release notes, you’ll see that lilo is deprecated in Fedora Core 1. It was actually supposed to be completely gone, but GRUB is missing some functionality, particularly relating to RAID setups that made Red Hat decide to leave lilo in for one more round. They’re planning to get GRUB up to speed and drop lilo for good when FC2 is released.
At any rate, to get access to lilo instead of grub, type “linux lilo” when starting the install.”
That’s perfectly understandable. I prefer LILO in desktop servers but I use grub in the servers all the time. That could explain why the new LILO code didn’t compile from source but I fixed that.
Other than that, Kernel 2.6 test code compiled rather well and a bit faster than under RH 9 but it could be just me.
anyone know if there is an option to install a kernel form the 2.6 line on Fedora ?
Using the new meathod how do you do a hard drive install.
i have the isos in a folder on a FAT32 partition(on aother drive)
But i don’t quite understand why the taskbar has to be that big by default. It could do with half the height, or maybe a third. The default wastes a LOT of precious desktop space imho.
I’m pretty sure the answer is no. I didn’t spend tons of time looking for the option, but I definitely didn’t see it.
I just installed Fedora and it’s quite obvious why some think that the fonts are ugly. The default font is still Luxi, not Vera.
I can’t understand that at all, because after changing the font to Vera whereever I could, the fonts look brilliant.
On a positive note, I notice that the sluggishness of RH9 which drove me nuts seems to be gone. Very nice.
Even though this release is not perfect, I really like where Red Hat is going with this and I’m certain, that Fedora will be big in the Open Source community.
First it had problems identifying my hardware. Both Suse, Mandrake and old RH9 identifies my 3Com-FE575C network card as well as my sound card. But no such luck in Fedora.
The system also feels a bit sluggish on a Pentium III, 500MB, 500 MHz. In fact Suse on my old PII/230MHz laptop was faster.
We still have the same mishmash of porly structured menu items in the Hat menu as in old RH9. And there is still no simple GUI way to change the order of them in Gnome mode.
>> Hurrah for ‘Unix Usability’. Also known as an oxymoron. << (referring to font rendering)
Why not try XFCE4? I use in Arch Linux with the default settings…looks great.
Sorry. but i have to say that fedora for me is simply crap. i had been a long time redhat user, but now i own myself a laptop with a usb2-pcmcia card. there ist no way to get the pcmcia card working with fedora. it crashes my hole system. now i’m running slackware 9.1 and no problem. i really sorry that fedora has just such a weak pcmcia support.
Hi ppl, anyone have links for it?
2nd why can’t my mozilla show that I had installed the flash plugin ever when it can load flash pages.
> Is the problem Samba 3? KDE 3.1? How does one browse a Windows network from Fedora 1 Core?!?
>It is the way Red Hat configures its Samba modules. Other linux distros do not have the problem I described. It happens with both Samba 2.x and 3. YellowDogLinux also has the exact same problem, because it is Red Hat-based.
Hmmm… is there a way around this? Could one uninstall Samba(client) and then reinstall it from source or RPM? (It worked like a breeze in SUSE 9.0 Pro which I cannot use bc it does not like my laptop monitor.) Or can one do a Samba config?
Not being able to browse (even heterogeneous) networks hoses half the purpose of the OS!
“i’m not very impressed by redhat 9 and now fedoras look and feel. i used rh9 for a longer time and it’s just not right (compared to win 2000 for example). everythings to big, to blurry, to round, hard to say what’s exactly wrong.”
You can easily change all of this in the configuration of KDE and Gnome.
Tried it and did not like it. Wait’s for final core.
I have installed everything using Fedora 3 downloaded disks
and it is working perfectly, I do not have any complaint, it is very stable and fast, it might generate mistakes like
any other softwares, but they will be corrected. It is much
better than Microsoft Windows, it is free, there is not need to activate, it is configurable, and I do not have to use the reset buttom as frequently as Windows XP. There is
not need to request permission from Microsoft to use it after you spent your money. I am doing my daily tasks on the OS. The fonts are very nice. Like anything else in life, we must work it out. If you are missing any drivers
or applications just download it from others sources. Human
being will never be completely satisifed. All these developers are working hard to make a good project, and it
will become a good project in the future, it is a good move
from the part of Redhat because they are doing what they do
best: Business software, and many good developers will be attracted toward the Fedora Project and many bugs will be
corrected, probably this will be the future of Linux made
for consumers, and we must open our mind and get use to the
needs to download differents releases and betas two or four times a year. We will never get that kind of project from Microsoft, we will never be able to give our opinions
or make changes to the OS, and we will never obtain a free
downloadable operating systems, so instead of critizing them, let’s help and give our support to the Fedora Project, let me tell you I love Debian, and Suse but Fedora
is going to become a homerunner. Linux distro are like cars
manufacturers they are make cars with differents features to attract differents buyers to their marketing strategy, but in essence they all are automobiles. All Linux distros
have the Linux Kernell and they add differents flavors like
ice cream, but Fedora is going to attract many tasters
I see that many people discuss anti-aliasing without
really understanding it. Anti-aliasing in Linux can be
as good as Mac and Windows.
The problem is that Red Hat has switched off bytecode interpretation in Freetype (license issues for comercial distribution, just like MP3). Because of that, in RH9, they used Type1 fonts which look really bad when not anti-aliased (and not much better when they are).
If one installs good TrueType fonts, e.g. Microsoft free core web fonts bundle, they look bad because of the bytecode interpreter being off.
My solution for RH9 was to download freetype source RPM, install it (it goes in /usr/src/redhat)
and in SPECS/freetype.spec switch the bytecode interpreter ON and change the release number from
X.X.X to X.X.Xbytecode. Rebuild the rpm and then
rpm -Fvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/freetype*
That did it. I’ve set up a file /etc/fonts/local.conf
and configured Microsoft TrueType fonts as default ones using /etc/fonts/fonts.conf as an example.
The fonts are beautiful, even at small sizes.
I don’t know whether Fedora has bytecode interpreter ON or OFF, but if it’s like RH9, then the solution is the same. I see that the bitsream-vera fonts are also available with Fedora now. I hope they are better quality then Luxi series.
It all boils down to having good fonts and bytecode interpreter ON.