Fedora Comments

[Joeisalsocool]

Could you post your opinion on Fedora Core 3. I just downloaded it and installed it last night. Now granted I'm running it on the rig in my sig. But it just seems to have a better feel than XP. It uses a whole crap load less RAM at idle too. Thanks. -Joe

 

[macdude425]

Compares to Windows, it kicks butt.

But among distros of Linux, there are better choices.

 

[Joeisalsocool]

Do you know of any other good free ones?
Which do you use?

 

[macdude425]

My dad uses SuSE. It sucks. It really takes a lot of work to get it to where you have all the abilities you need.

See:
http://distrowatch.com/

For your needs, though, FC3 might be OK for you. It all depends on what you want to do.

 

[Polymorphic]

the main problem i have with fc3 is the removal of all copyrighted/non-free software, such as mp3 playback librarties and just about every video playback format. to get a system good for playing multimedia, it will take you many hours of hunting down libraries and dependancies. other than that, FC3 is not bad. As anyone who has ready pretty much any of my posts will tell you though, Slackware is what I find to be a great all-around distro. Installation can be a little rough for newbies but once you get the feel of it it is a breeze.

 

[m3trj]

I agree, you should try Slackware. Very stable and completely free.

 

[jakec]

Compared to Redhat, Fedora Rocks. It is very simplistic and uses a lot less RAM and other computer Recorces than Windows. However I agree with 'Macdude' there are better linux distros availible

PS I also agree with Macdude's comments about SUSE, Awful awful OS

Cheers,

Jake

 

[horndude]

ya, Suse 9.3 pro for example, does NOT come with gcc, thats about as silly as it gets

get slackware, if you cant do it with slackware, you cant do it period

 

[jakec]

Another Good Linux distro to try is Ubuntu, then once you get more perficiant with that try Kbuntu.

I like Ubuntu because it is A more simplistic OS, It has access to Root terminal and unlike alot of Linux OS it doesn't come with a whole bunch of apps your not going to use.

PS. Hardware detection is Good if your running Ubuntu full install, However on live CD although still good it could be inproved
(a.k.a Internet modem detection)

Jake

 

[charles@pcfix]

Fedora project is a way for developers to try new things with Linux. It is not the most stable distro going. I have used Red hat since the caveman and love it. I am still using RH9 on my Web Server. The longest uptime was 256 days. ThatÂ’s 256 days without rebooting, not bad.

Allot of the new distros are coming packaged with allot of GUI stuff that makes life easy for the desktop applications. ItÂ’s all good.

Depending on what you plan to use your system for will determine which distro best fits your needs.

Slackware is a good choice.
Debian is a little tricky on the install front, but I like it.
Suse Desktop I did not like, but the 10.0 amd 64 version shows serious potential.
I personally did not like Ubuntu, but some of my colleges love it.

Bottom line is Linux is Linux, whatÂ’s packaged around it that makes or breaks the distro.