Robert L Cochran wrote:
Robert Johnson wrote:
Fedora Core is one of the better distros you can use. It should install just fine on most recent hardware -- I've never really had a serious installation problem with the public releases. The beta releases are understandably more difficult because they are works in progress. The toughest OS'es to install are FreeBSD or OpenBSD. On a scale of very difficult to install to easy, here are my rankings:... Would *you* install it if you had to do it over again? Or would you stay with Fedora Core 2? Or another distro entirely?
I ask this because I cant believe all the troubles so many people are having. Is there something wrong with Core 3? Thanks,
OpenBSD FreeBSD SuSE Linux Fedora Core
I think Fedora Core is one of the best distros you can use regardless of your experience with Linux. It is very hard to beat the ease of installation and the GUI components have improved with every release. I've been fooling with Red Hat products since Red Hat Linux 6.1. I still remember the absolute hell of upgrading to Red Hat 6.2. Anaconda was a bit rough around the edges in those days. Bust mostly, I was new to Linux, new to the hardware I was trying to install on, and as a result I made a ton of mistakes. I did one thing right: I kept on trying until I succeeded. (At this point I pat myself on my back warmly before clicking the "send" button.)
A few months ago I decided to dive back into the Linux world (after a 4-year absence). This time I went full bore and dumped Windoss entirely.
I started off with Fedora Core 3, test 2 (based on a review I'd read of it saying that it was already better than FC2). A week or so after the install I managed to screw things up sufficiently that the only thing I knew to do was reinstall.
Rather than do that right away, I installed SuSE 9.1 Pro instead. I'd gotten a free DVD from Novell a few months prior. The installation program was much "slicker" than Fedora as is the SuSE GUI in general. However a pretty installatrion doesn't make up for a bad one. It was murder getting it installed. It kept failing (pausing). I'd have to hit enter again to get it moving. It took forever and a day to install. The convenience of a DVD was outweighed by the slowness of it.
In any event, when I managed to screw it up later I came back to Fedora Core. By that time 3 had been released. It was out of testing. Nothing had really changed that I can tell and overall I've been impressed. It's not perfect and I do have some issues with it, but overall it's about the best out there now (especially for someone like me with moderate experience e). Not to mention it's the only distro I know of right now that boasts the latest GNOME *&* KDE. Most distros can mange the newest of one, but not both (part of it was timing I'm sure).
But overall it's a very impressive distro and as long as you don't mess with it (but hey..that's no fun) it's great and can be just as easy to use as Windows (but again......).
Now if I could just get GNOME themes to install.....
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