Fedora Core Review.. by me

[Master of Reality]

Well... i just tried the newly made Fedora after not using redhat since when RH8 was released (i used it for a week or two).
 
 First of all ill say the good points ive found with it. The installer is one of the best ive used, although i thought it was missing something until it asked me to create a user at bootup. It detected my hardware flawlessly and setup everything fine except my network card which was easy to fix.
 
 I found that all the graphical utilities for setting up NFS, Samba, servers, etc, etc, were really handy although i merely took a look at them and didnt use them. Setting up X using a gui is rather odd feeling after i've been editing XF86Config by hand since i started using Linux.
 
 THe things i didnt like about it is, I logged in to KDE, logged into Gnome... and i couldnt tell which i was in. They *are* different window managers they should look different. I absolutely hate how all the menu items have names like "Messenger, Browser, etc." So that i can not tell what im actually going to be running when i click it. And switching the gaim icon with the horrid looking smiley icon was really low  .
 
 ....i still have it on my comp and will use it occasionally, but im still using slackware exclusively

[Refalm]

A question, does it have router software (IPChains), Apache and stuff, and is it easy to configure?

[hm_murdock]

quote: A question, does it have router software (IPChains), Apache and stuff, and is it easy to configure?

who gives a shit? they're trying to make a business desktop, not a server. get red hat server if you want those goodies, or install them yourself via RPM. don't install via source. only masochists, and Void Main do that. (VM does it because he can do whatever he wants)

 

quote: Setting up X using a gui is rather odd feeling after i've been editing XF86Config by hand since i started using Linux.  

Why is it "an odd feeling"? You're now doing what the rest of the universe does. Configure your system without having to fuck around with archaic ole timey bullshit. Kudos to Red Hat for not being Old Hat.

 

quote:  THe things i didnt like about it is, I logged in to KDE, logged into Gnome... and i couldnt tell which i was in. They *are* different window managers they should look different.

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Remind me to never let you design a UI. "Hey, this word processor and spreadsheet are DIFFERENT APPS! They should look and work differently!"

Uniformity is the name of the game when it comes to UI and appearance theme design. Things should work and look the same.

If you're not careful, then BALZAC is gonna attack you

[flap]

quote:who gives a shit? they're trying to make a business desktop, not a server. get red hat server if you want those goodies,

No thanks, I need them on my desktop. I also need an operating system that doesn't patronise me by exclusively being a "desktop OS" and not allowing me to have server functionality on my machine.

 

quote:don't install via source. only masochists, and Void Main do that.

Why, because installing something from source involves typing three whole commands? Is that too taxing for you?

 

quote:Configure your system without having to fuck around with archaic ole timey bullshit.

Labelling Unix as "ole timey bullshit" isn't really very intelligent, and your insecure rants are getting boring. Maybe you're not comfortable configuring things that way, but many people are. I'm thankful I don't have to mess around opening windows and clicking buttons to configure things, I can just edit the config files directly.

 

quote:Uniformity is the name of the game when it comes to UI and appearance theme design. Things should work and look the same.

Again, that's your opinion. Users of Unix desktops appreciate the choice they have when it comes to window managers.

[shuiend]

I tried fedora on my main rig but it never got past the dectecing new hardware stage. So i gave up on it. Slackware is still the only usable thing on my machine. i will say though that i will be settin it up on my other comp to use as a ftp server. For some reasoni have always found servers easyer to do in red hat then in nething else.