I have installed Fedora Core 2 Test 1 from ISOs but I am confused about the best way to apply updates. I am interested in making a reasonably stable cutting edge system, so do not require the latest untested updates - just the more important ones. (Any ideas why the panel seems to stop responding? Also Evolution a little shaky.)

It seems from other posts that yum is preferable to RHN, but I cannot determine what my settings should be. I am using the default /etc/yum.conf as installed but it seems to download *many* packages and keeps failing...

Any help appreciated.

nutmeg

yum and the up2date (which i am pretty shure usses yum as a core in some way) is so increadibly slow and often stops responding compleatly. i think its a problem with the download mirrors it usses, if it was core 1, people have made a list of none offical mirrors you could replace it with, and it ran just about flawless, but im not shure if there are any alternet mirrors for core 2, till i find out im gopnna kinda shy away from updating, it always needs to crash out if it appears to freeze.

-Krause

Thanks Krause. The panel in FC2test1 appears to stop responding then go blank something like 30mins after boot, but a terminal and applications can still be started from launchers on the desktop so it's not a complete loss.

What I am looking for is a (1) stable distro that I can (2) use my SATA hard drive with.

+ mdk91 accesses the SATA at floppy speed
+ mdk92 is very buggy even with all updates applied
(mdk have now changed their QA procedures so I may try 10 when released)
+ gentoo cost me about five days and never booted
+ FC2test1 is the current project (but still confused about updating)

So can FC2test1 meet my spec! Alternatively, can FC1 do it? (Stable, but SATA OK?)

nutmeg