Vinicius wrote:
Vinicius escreveu:
Edward Yang escreveu:
After getting so many reply from my last post, I finally understand
why the post aroused so much agitation.
1. It seems for some people, 'FC3 sucks' is the same as '*Linux*
sucks'. But I am very sorry, I did not mean that. I just meant FC3
sucks or FC3 sucks because it is worse than FC1 based on my personal
experience.
2. Some young guys (mostly students) or even not-so-young guys (what
the hell who are they?) like the feel of calling somebody *troll*,
and so they seize every possible chance to show off their *skills*
at name calling. That's a dark side I already know about Linux
communitiy. But, please note I am not saying the *whole* Linux
community is bad, I mean a small part of it.
Okay, let me elaborate why I think FC3 sucks or FC3 is worse than
FC1. Note that I did not have experience with FC2.
1. Installation. Well, what can I say? It is not worse, but it not
any bettern than FC1. Components selection is still very difficult.
2. FC3 could not start into X in Virtual PC. It spews out tons of
error messages complaining something that actually should not have
caused its failure. So I have to download a temporary patch from
http://vpc.visualwin.com/. See page
http://vpc.visualwin.com/Notes/FedoraCore.3.Final.html.
"Product Specifications
The Virtual PC application requires a 400 MHz Pentium-compatible
processor (1 GHz is recommended), and requires approximately 20 MB of
disk space. It runs on Windows XP Professional and Windows 2000
Professional. ". These are the hosts.
And these are the guests: "MS-DOS 6.22; Windows 95; Windows 98;
Windows Me; Windows 2000; Windows NT 4.0; Windows XP; and OS/2**"
See
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/evaluation/overview2004.mspx
I suppose GNU\Linux is not supported by Virtual PC, but VMWare does
supports GNU\Linux.
But the KB has another things to say:
Cannot Install a Red Hat Linux 6.2 Guest PC in Virtual PC:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824668
How to Install a Linux Virtual PC:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824513
X-Windows Display Is Corrupted or Does Not Appear When You Install
Linux as a Guest Operating System:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;825379
I did not install RH 6.2. I installed FC1/FC3.
3. After several times of kernel updating (at least 3), I finally
can boot into X from the so called official kernel provided by FC3.
4. It is hopelessly slower than FC1! I could run FC1 with only 128mb
memory and don't feel much sluggishness. I now run FC3 with 164mb
memory, but it is visibly slower than FC1! Application startup time
is almost unbearable.
5. I am a newbie on Linux, but I already find a few bugs. For
example, in gnome-termial, if I set DEL to ASCII DEL in the profile
settings, it actualy acts like BACKSPACE. This bug may be specific
only to gnome, but since it's bundled with FC3, so I attribute the
problem to FC3. It's quite reasonable.
6. I have not acurate data to prove this, but I feel the system boot
up time is longer than FC1.
7. This is a minor problem - I only installed kernel+gnome, no KDE.
Yet it takes up more than 2gb space. What the hell? A normal Windows
2000 installation usually takes only 1.5gb even with all components
selected. I forgot how much was FC1, but FC3 apparently is not doing
better or even worse.
8. I may think of others that attribute to this 'FC3 sucks' topic.
Final words - I am not negating Linux. Actually I think Linux and
Open Source has a very good future. That's why I am catching the new
waves here.
Thanks.