Hello Guys,

I'm downloading Fedora 12 to test it out. What do you guys think about it?
would you recommend me to install it as main OS?
thanks

I believe the answer is subjective. It depends on choice and user preferences. If you find Fedora 12 a good fit for your needs then anyone would suggest use it. :-)

Thanks for the Suggestion...

same here...burning it now to test on my dell studio 15. will report back...

If you don't test it by yourself it doesn't matter whether anyone tells you it's good or not.

Here is a little help just in case.

Fedora 12 Installation and Post Installation Guide

Just be aware that Fedora only supports each version for thirteen months. After that there are no updates of any kind and it is officially advised that you do a clean install(not a yum upgrade) to a newer version.

the main problems /issues would be the 13 month life cycle then A FULL CLEAN INSTALL

some people do not mind this, some HATE it .
for fedora i would recommend that you make a DATA partition and label it as such ( a BIG partition )
something like this
/dev/sda1 boot -- 100 meg
/dev/sda2 / 15 gig ( the fedora root directory )
/dev/sda3 /home 5 gig
/dev/sda4 /swap ( 2 to 4 gig )
/dev/sda5 /DATA 200+ gig )

this way you can reinstall fedora on sda2 and 3 WITHOUT loosing your music and files on the DATA partition


also be advised that fedora also needs to be "fixed" a lot ,updates DO break things from time to time .

Get fast internet (DVD ISO) and a DVD-RW burner and (fedora) life is easy.

hey guys,
thanks for the Feed Back. I installed Fedora 12 I like it so far. I was using Ubuntu but a problem I had was after installing the Codecs to play windows media player files, every time I try to play a YOUTUBE video it would run REALLY slow.
Fedora doesn't have this problem so I'll test it out for awhile. I think it is a good idea to partition the hard drive so separate your personal data but i have an extra hard drive and I don't mind doing an installation every 13 months.
Any other Distros that you recommend that it is supported for more than 13 months?
Thx!

Centos is RHEL(Red Hat Enterprise Linux) with the logos removed. It is free to download/upgrade(unlike RHEL) and is binary compatible with RHEL. RHEL/Centos 5 was based on FC6(RHEL/C4 was based on FC3, etc) so it will have a very similar feel. RHEL/Centos5 will have support until 2014.

wow... and how is it playing media? do you think i would experience the same problem as with Ubuntu?

I also installed Fedora 12 and its working great.
thanks

Installing the correct codecs on RHEL/Centos should follow the same format as on Fedora. I switched to Centos from Fedora (FC4-F8) when F9 came out.

when i was running fedora 11
fedora and centOS 5.4 had [b] the exact same codecs installed and the same ( custom built smplayer on cent )as fedora had . the full 2007 mplayer package then the gstreamer (good,bad,ugly) from rpmfusion

ok guys, you got me curious... Downloading CentOS as I type.