Hey people,
Thought I might give Fed10 a go in my box.

Never used Fedora before, so looking for advice and if I should bother?

Is Fed much different than Debian, Ubuntu, or Slack?


Or what can I learn from running Fedora?
What's fed's selling point?
thanks

Just watching you in the last few months, I think you should try---as a minimum---every distro in the top 20 on the distrowatch "hit list". I am one of the worst "distro-hoppers" you will find, but I think I have learned **something** from each.

I have never much liked the RedHat family of products, but I do have F11 on one machine at the moment. What have I learned?
1. there are some inexcusable problems with the installer.
2. the boot-up time for the live CD is one of the worst I have ever seen.
3. there is a very nice user interface.
4. it set up LVM without asking me (see #1)
5. evolution still doesn't work with MSExchange 07 (not Fedora's or RedHat's fault?)
6. it has a Beta version of FF3.5, which seems to have some nice features.
7. otherwise, most things work about as I would expect.

You are also a candidate for Saikee's methods for getting over 100 different OSes on one machine............

Fedora is bleeding edge with short life cycles. If you like playing with the latest stuff and don't mind having to upgrade every 6 months to a year then it is for you.

Also Fedora is used to test what ends up in RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CentOS is a binary compile of RHEL sources so Fedora also tests what ends up in CentOS.

One of the main differences in Fedora/RHEL/CentOS is the package management. They use rpm and yum instead of Yast or Apt-Get etc... of other distros.

RHEL is designed to be a commercial Linux. If you work in a place where they use RHEL then experimenting with Fedora is helpful as it lets you know what's coming down the pike.

Fedora does have some differences from RHEL based on their philosophy. For example they don't offer Motif (but do offer Lesstif in its place) whereas RHEL does offer Motif.

On a personal note, Fedora has the best KDE I've seen on any distro. If you indeed make up through the install and end up on the desktop on KDE, there is no better experience.

KDE? Doesn't that mean "Kills Desktop Excellence"?

Mock all you want, we gonna win it all

I guess one very interesting feature Fedora offers which most other distributions to not is SELinux.

And by the way, today the update to the stable version of Firefox 3.5 has been put into the repository.

OK, I'm gonna Net-install Fed10 tonight, cause it's "more" stable, right?

But, I want a Light desktop; what's my best options for a "moderate", under 5gb install of Fedora10?

And, BIG issue, I must have Xvesa, NO Xorg or my screen will freeze and PC will freeze, Only
Xvesa cause of my graphics(old)

Thanks

Just my 2c but....

I started with RH7 a long time ago, and then from Fedora Core 1 until now. I have F10 on my main laptop along with Ubuntu and Slackware-Current. But I have found that as time goes on, Fedora is requiring heavier duty gear to run properly. F10 runs fine on my 1.9Ghz AMD64 X2 lappy, but F11 on my 1.4Ghz Celeron M barely crawls get a lot of mouse freezes. So, while I still have a soft spot for Fedora and always will, I wouldn't try to put it on an older computer anymore.

Bob

well if you do not mind fixing the many small problems, that the very fast dev. of fedora causes . Then it is not bad . i have not had any MAJOR problems , just little ones .
fedora 11 out of the box -- no sound .That was fixed after a few days with two updates. But that second update KILLED "PySolFC" card game .
The very new gcc (4.4.0 20090506 or gcc 4.3 or 4.4 on fedora 10) dose require some hacking of code in order to get it to build on fedora .-- see the gcc porting guide on the gcc site --