Update for 199 bug fixes right out of the box? Are you kidding?

I've been a Fedora user at home since V7 and have been rather impressed with every new version, which seems to be at least once a year.

I loved the fact that it "fully" supported my X-Fi soundcard without the need for updated drivers from Creative.

It's fantastic for new users as well as the more advanced. A few things I had issues with were that upon installing VMware I realised that it could not initialize audio.

I purchased a new Belkin Wireless G card that I had success with on Unbuntu, but upon putting it in the PC the boot process hangs on initializing hardware. It even hung up while attempting a clean install of Fedora with the card in. So look elsewhere for wireless, though I'm sure there are cards that Fedora will work well with.

I have used Fedora 9 (for application server) for a while. Then I tried Fedora 11 at home. First on my notebook. Surprisingly good. That is, it even recognized the built-in webcam and got it working right after I installed the webcam utils with yum (surprisingly simple). I even did not know any detail of the web cam until now :) And my notebook is of the component-based built-to-order type. Then I installed virtualbox and so can have both worlds in one desktop. It goes well. Amazing.


Later I installed F11 on a more powerful desktop with built-in display adapter. I have some trouble to set higher resolution. Apart from that, it goes well too. No problem with sounds, usb, and network cards (1 x giga, 2 x 100M, no wireless)


Of course there are still things to improve. e.g. hard to get networking on right after booting up (I searched over again and again but no success). Maybe that is due to my ignorance. But I hope there can be more pointers to getting things done. Thanks. Overall it is good work.

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I was running an ancient version of Fedora 8 on my laptop, (3000 N100 w. 2 gig RAM + Core Duo CPU) Initially, I tried upgrading it with a live version of Fedora 9, but it didn't have any of the features that I wanted.

I tried my first install with the full DVD. The first attempt detected Fedora 9, but wouldn't install any additional features that F8 had & I wanted back. Basically, I didn't want Gnome and did want Open Office.

I tried to run upgrade again & it didn't see any version of Linux at all. So, I did a clean install. Even though this is a DVD that I downloaded the day before and burned, it still needed over 1000 packages upgraded. As of now, I have less then 300 to go.

I'm having more problems getting the wireless printer to work. It doesn't detect printers as easily as F8 did. I still have to decide what version of Adobe Flash I want. I'll probably go ahead and install Flash 9 for now. That should work with youtube !! (Priorities)

The multimedia thing was pretty straight forward. Repeat after me "Livna is your friend." Using Yumex makes life a lot easier for handling the repositories. I recommend mplayer (kmplayer) and VLC. Get them from their websites.

My computer seems to run a little faster as well. The wireless picked up a network that I never even knew existed. No hardware was changed or upgraded.

Still, the true test is how it behaves a month later.

Im impressed
All my problems in F10 were solved :)

Installed into a VMware 6.5 Workstation with no issues in less than 20 minutes. I've run several versions of Linux and it keeps getting easier to install. this is a great distro.

Once again, for my 128MB in RAM Fedora make all smoth, the only problem appear while installig, de text mode makes all, you can't configure HD layout, instlled packages.

But the include of Presto and deltaRPM's is awesome, use noveau as nVidia driver make my life more easy.

Fedora FTW!!

Very stable ,rock solid. Runs on my old Compaq Presario. I love to use it without compiz and metacity as default window manager. Life becomes easy and you can focus on your tasks rather than being lured by the eye candy.