Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Fedora 7 - A Big Dissapointment

Full of hope I was when I have heard that Fedora core was to be launched.
I was trembling with impatience to get it. I was supposed to have all the bells and whistles of a modern linux distro.
Finally I have downloaded the DVD image, burnt it and made a try.

Problems found:
1. X server not configured although I am using the common i945 chipset...
2. libpython2.5.so not present in the system therefore no python dependent programs worked
3. The xen enabled kernel did not boot.

I gave up after this because the effort to dig and solve this doesn't worth.

I am really sorry because I used to love the RedHat derivatives distros.
ERRATA
Because the instalation imge taken with bittorrent was corrupted i had those issues. I have redownloaded it via http and burnt it and it works perfectly.

Nice feature found after:
+ compiz
+ selinux
+ synaptic like yum

Still to be improved:
* wireless
* laptop support

2 comments:

  1. Why bother with Fedora? Just because Red Hat was the first "hot" name in the linux area? Try SuSE. You will find it more than amazing (Clayman)

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  2. 10x Clayman.
    SuSE is really neat. So is Ubuntu or Gentoo. I am sticking to RedHat's descendants simply because the RPM packaging and the fact that most of the Linux applications in Alcatel-Lucent are based on RHEL - therefore I need something similar to it home.
    A second reason is that I worked in a company that made some outsourcing for SuSE and I did not enjoy too much the cooperation with them

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