#Fedora workstation review install
#Fedora workstation review driver
#Fedora workstation review upgrade

#Fedora workstation review upgrade

My disappointment started when I tried to upgrade Gaim 0.71 to 0.72. From then on, it was an uphill battle to get this OS up and running according to more modern specifications. I have never seen Moho load so fast, not even on BeOS (which was its original platform).Īnd the niceties stop just right there. Lost Marble’s Moho or Blender) load immediately. It is 2.6-ready, has better support for laptops, an updated Bluecurve theme with more color selection (default background image is lovely) and bumped up security.įedora Core also comes with lots of server software like Apache, mySQL, PostgreSQL, a news server, an FTP server, SSH support and other advanced technologies that power users or administrators will love to get their hands upon.Īpplications indeed start pretty fast and especially some third party statically-linked apps (e.g. There is also prelinking by default which speeds up application launching, and better ACPI support. New features include a graphical booting sequence which is really nice in my opinion (and it can be even better by integrating the booting sequence with the login and the Gnome loading procedure). The distro includes most of what users would need for their home usage: Internet applications, office apps, games, some multimedia support, easy administration for most things via Red Hat’s preference panels. The first boot went fine too, all services got up and running correctly, and creating new users also worked great.įedora Core comes with Gnome 2.4.0 (plus some 2.4.0.1 updated packages), Mozilla 1.4.1, Gaim 0.71, OOo 1.1, XMMS 1.2.8, KOffice, Gimp 1.2.x, gThumb 2.0.2 (pretty outdated version), Epiphany 1.0.4 and many hundreds of other packages. The betas had the same problem too, but Red Hat Linux 8 and 9 did not have that problem at all on the same hardware. Resetting the machine and re-trying worked fine (with warm boot).

#Fedora workstation review install

The only problem I had with the installation was that the first time I booted to install the distro (with cold boot) X would die a few seconds after Anaconda would load.

Later, the included GTKam utility worked fine with my husband’s USB Kodak DC265 camera too.

#Fedora workstation review driver

My monitor was in their database it correctly found all the horizontal/vertical information, the Nvidia graphics card was auto-detected as well (only in 2-D mode), and loaded the OHCI driver for my TI Firewire PCI card. I believe that Fedora’s installer is both easy to use and powerful and succeeds in satisfying both power and casual users. Red Hat is a market leader and following the market leader assures the least trouble for most users.

Red Hat’s Linux is still one of my favorite distributions because of one main reason: compatibility with Linux software. Fedora Core 1 has been out now for a few days now and many faithful Linux fans have already installed it.