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The last time I used fedora was when I first started using linux and I was trying out various linux distributions like mandriva, ubuntu, mepis,…I got my hands on fedora core 7. Before that I used only ubuntu and mandriva. Now I do not want to diss any ubuntu fans because right now I am using ubuntu my self right now and I am also a debian fan but back then when I first started using fedora it seemed to me like I was for the first time using a really good operating system. I continued using it for three months until the next version came out and I thought that I could upgrade it via the net but that did not work out as I thought. I had loads of dependency issues. Fedora also turned out to be unstable. So those are the two things that I believe plagued fedora back in those days.
So why am I writing this now. Well I figured that it might be a good time to try out the new fedora 12. I have seen some good reviews in the magazines and some acquaintance had a wired obsession with it for some reason. So I figured that would be a good enough reason to go ahead and try it out. So any way I went to their site and downloaded it from their site because I did not want to download it via a torrent. I just do not like doing that. I want to be sure that the copy I get no one did any thing to it. I could go ahead and do the MD5 check but I have never done that on anything. Not that I would not know how to do so but I just do not feel like doing that.
The first thing I noticed during the installation was a check box for encryption. I say that because it did not say specifically what kind of an encryption that was. Only later after googling I realized it meant the LVM. Any way because I check almost every check box that seems worth wile I went ahead with it.
After I booted I got this blue screen and an input box for the password to my LVM encrypted disk. I kind of liked that. I looked neat. So far I was happy with my decision to install fedora. I have wanted to encrypt my hardrive for a while but never got around doing so. Here on Fedora 12 it was as simple as checking a check box. I have to give it to them. That really made my day.
One of the things that I like to configure on a freshly installed linux distro is the firewall. Here is is simple with a nice gui program. After some further gnome configuration I was quite happy with it.
Unfortunately though after using fedora for a while now I realized it still sucks. One of the things that right away turned me off was that I was unable to update it. There are at the moment over 400 updates waiting for me but I can install only the security updates because I put that on automatic. The other problem is I can not install via a package manager any thing because it gives me the same type of error. Now I go this problem on my laptop as well as my desktop computer and I say this because the last time I was on a fedora irc channel asking for something other fedora related I was basically told that I should not blame the software because they simply assumed that the problem was with my hardware. So here I tested it on two different computers and I got the same problem. So I was really ****ed as well at the fedora people on the irc channel as well as those who design fedora. It was so annoying that every time I wanted to update I got the same problem and the package manager was bloated to if you ask me. If I search for something like â€rar,†I get loads of results and it is not alphabetically organized. I mean what is up with that? I never had a problem just searching for the file compression program. Of course it won't allow me to install it any way if I find it.
Now that is not all. Just today I was burning some stuff to a DVD when all of the sudden nautilus crashes on me. I could not believe that. I do not remember nautilus ever crashing on me on any linux distro before. So I was quite surprised at first. Like how could that happen. So I tried to burn the same files again and again with the same result. I just gave up on burning those files to a DVD and I am here writing this review as I hope to get in the process some idea how to deal with the situation. I just hate it right now and I do not want to see it again. I am definitely going to install something else on that computer in the near future. What I plan to install at this very moment I am still unsure off.
After I cooled of for a few moments I returned to try again. I removed some rar file that brasero found some issue with because it had a “windows uncompatible name.†So now I think that I managed to burn the files. I also tried to report the crash using the automatic crash reporting tool but that did not seem to work either because after several hours it is still “working.â€
So to conclude fedora still sucks. When I used it back in the day with version 7 it sucked and now it sucks even more. Despite the fact that there are some new cool features that have been added the that I found great I still believe that it is not worth to use in the long run.
Now I do not say this because I want to discorage you to use it or to encourage you to use some other distro. In fact it needs to be mentioned that the ease of setting up a LVM and configuring a firewall surpasses debian.
So why am I writing this now. Well I figured that it might be a good time to try out the new fedora 12. I have seen some good reviews in the magazines and some acquaintance had a wired obsession with it for some reason. So I figured that would be a good enough reason to go ahead and try it out. So any way I went to their site and downloaded it from their site because I did not want to download it via a torrent. I just do not like doing that. I want to be sure that the copy I get no one did any thing to it. I could go ahead and do the MD5 check but I have never done that on anything. Not that I would not know how to do so but I just do not feel like doing that.
The first thing I noticed during the installation was a check box for encryption. I say that because it did not say specifically what kind of an encryption that was. Only later after googling I realized it meant the LVM. Any way because I check almost every check box that seems worth wile I went ahead with it.
After I booted I got this blue screen and an input box for the password to my LVM encrypted disk. I kind of liked that. I looked neat. So far I was happy with my decision to install fedora. I have wanted to encrypt my hardrive for a while but never got around doing so. Here on Fedora 12 it was as simple as checking a check box. I have to give it to them. That really made my day.
One of the things that I like to configure on a freshly installed linux distro is the firewall. Here is is simple with a nice gui program. After some further gnome configuration I was quite happy with it.
Unfortunately though after using fedora for a while now I realized it still sucks. One of the things that right away turned me off was that I was unable to update it. There are at the moment over 400 updates waiting for me but I can install only the security updates because I put that on automatic. The other problem is I can not install via a package manager any thing because it gives me the same type of error. Now I go this problem on my laptop as well as my desktop computer and I say this because the last time I was on a fedora irc channel asking for something other fedora related I was basically told that I should not blame the software because they simply assumed that the problem was with my hardware. So here I tested it on two different computers and I got the same problem. So I was really ****ed as well at the fedora people on the irc channel as well as those who design fedora. It was so annoying that every time I wanted to update I got the same problem and the package manager was bloated to if you ask me. If I search for something like â€rar,†I get loads of results and it is not alphabetically organized. I mean what is up with that? I never had a problem just searching for the file compression program. Of course it won't allow me to install it any way if I find it.
Now that is not all. Just today I was burning some stuff to a DVD when all of the sudden nautilus crashes on me. I could not believe that. I do not remember nautilus ever crashing on me on any linux distro before. So I was quite surprised at first. Like how could that happen. So I tried to burn the same files again and again with the same result. I just gave up on burning those files to a DVD and I am here writing this review as I hope to get in the process some idea how to deal with the situation. I just hate it right now and I do not want to see it again. I am definitely going to install something else on that computer in the near future. What I plan to install at this very moment I am still unsure off.
After I cooled of for a few moments I returned to try again. I removed some rar file that brasero found some issue with because it had a “windows uncompatible name.†So now I think that I managed to burn the files. I also tried to report the crash using the automatic crash reporting tool but that did not seem to work either because after several hours it is still “working.â€
So to conclude fedora still sucks. When I used it back in the day with version 7 it sucked and now it sucks even more. Despite the fact that there are some new cool features that have been added the that I found great I still believe that it is not worth to use in the long run.
Now I do not say this because I want to discorage you to use it or to encourage you to use some other distro. In fact it needs to be mentioned that the ease of setting up a LVM and configuring a firewall surpasses debian.
