Hi all,

This is a question for those who have used FC2. Is it worth installing and using as a primary OS? Lots of bugs? Also, I read somewhere that there will be no more bug fixes, is that true?

I'm think about installing it.

Please tell me.

Thanks.

I use it on my laptop, and would highly recommend it. I think it's pretty clean.

No, it's not true... They will release updates. What you read was somebody talking about the last Test version.

I downloaded the ISOs last night, and I plan on installing FC2 tonight.

d00d.

i've been following the tests and none of them have worked correctly on my laptop however the final seems very clean

everything works so far and its pretty quick to respond

When I thought that FC2 was finally for me .. until today when I found out that my XP partition went busted and seems that I'm getting hell lot of problems running FC2 that I decided .. I am going to downgrade back to FC1 .. may be I'll give it a month or two before I'm trying to give it another go .. for those who're going to upgrade to FC2 .. good luck .. you need lot of patient and time

I've been using FC1 as my primary OS and it has been very good. Extremely stable, and I hardly ever boot windows anymore. No reason not to expect the same with FC2.

I do have a few issues with FC2, but have no doubt they'll get fixed soon. (There's always a few gotchas right after a new release.)

I don't know where you heard that thing about no more fixes, it's totally wrong. There are about 40 Red Hat people active in the Fedora mailing lists, so it has plenty of support.

Just my 2 cents.

i want to know whats new?

theres 4 cd's now insteed of three..... what extra goodies can we expect?

Fedora is a very stable OS, relative to distros like SuSE and Mandrake, imho. It stands up with them and better. Fedora is the only distro that automatically found my print on a LAN, hooked through an XP box, on install, with no tweaking required. Just a tonne of packages. And updating via Yum and up2date works well for me (much better than urpmi in MDK).

While each distro has its strengths, Fedora seems to be resting on the very strong foundation of Red Hat, so I'm pretty impressed.

Also, check out fedoratracker.org, which will generate apt and yum config files for you now (once all the repositories add F2). So, basically it's like easyurpmi, but easier...

That's not to diss any of the other distros. As I said, I think they each have their strengths, but it's so nice to see so many strong Linux OSs available for choosing right now.

I am a HUGE fan of Core 1 and have just received my shiny new FC2 DVD and will be installing it after work tonight (much to the complete annoyance of my wife) hehehehehehe

Just a preparation for you.

1. I apparently need to recompile the kernel to get my nvidia card to work.
2. Audio is not a option for me yet in KDE though I've tried all advice for hours.
3. Nautilus in Gnome2.6 is the stupidest file browser I've ever seen.
4. It seems that there are tons of libraries missing for every multimedia program I try and reinstall.

It seems like the notebook computer users are having a go of it, but I'm going back to FC1. The last two days have been a hellish waste of time on a distro that is not ready. FC2 was a total let down compared to FC1.

Ha Ha, I should have been expecting trouble when I noticed FC2 didn't have a default file association for RPM's. I mean really, is it finished?

so many bugs, i almost cannot install it

... ok then... FC1 it is for the time being :S

Yeah don't go with fc2 it has a lot of problems... It also has new versions of most apps or rpms so some programs won't install because of file dependancies. I had lots of files that said need this..8.3 and I had version 8.4...

Sound sucks in gnome and in kde you have to use arts or it sucks too...

Nvidia drivers don't work at all or maybe if you're lucky they work with some tweaking but they didn't for me...

Anyway it's not a good desktop distro and it has a lot of problems I don't recommend it.

From what I've been reading I might just stop my downloads and wait about 3 months to see whats happening with FC2