redhat fedora!

khankhan New
edited January 2004 in Science & Tech
Its official: my first post from my new linux laptop. I've tried dual-booting between windows XP and mandrake, knoppix, and MEPIS, and none of them worked the first time through on my laptop. Fedora installed right the first time, detected my ethernet card, brought it up on eth0 and my wireless card on eth1! I'm duly impressed. If you haven't given Fedora a shot yet, give it a try. I was scared away at first by the fact that its a development platform (i.e. it in constant development by the users) but really its a rock solid distro. Huzzah.

Comments

  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited January 2004
    Hmm, never really checked it out..
    How large are the isos?
  • khankhan New
    edited January 2004
    bout 650 mb x3 discs. better than mandrake, which wouldnt even fit on the freaking CD-R's (required overburn).
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    I was going to run up a box at work with Fedora, it's effectively a spike from the Redhat 9 tree without the bells and whistles?
  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Fedora is awesome, it will be my next distro. Even though I have not had a distro for like 2 years.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Right, without them included. It favors Gnome. But, it will take rpms and rpm is there. now that it is at 1.0, might be well worth a look. Suspect paid release will be RedHat Enterprise Desktop Linux with bells and whistles included.

    RedHat favors Gnome(said twice as figure of speech emphasis and to carry forward logic), if you like KDE I would stay with SuSE or Mandrake. Mandrake is kinda different, a lot of the internal distro-custom scripting is Perl these days, starting with Mandrake 9.0, so if you want to learn Perl that is worth a look.

    John.
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