I have a HP Pavilion 17" Laptop dv9500 T7700 2.4Ghz with 4GB RAM. I'm running dual boot Vista Home Premium 32-bit and Fedora 11 64-bit. Fedora is fast and works with all devices on my laptop. Even bluetooth devices initialize with no problem. I have trouble with the same bluetooth devices on openSUSE and Ubuntu. Fedora, dual monitor works without a hitch. The only issue I am trying to work out is setting up VMware Server 2.0.1 or WS6.5. Virtualbox work like a champ. For all those with 10.1" Acer One netbooks w/ 160GB drives, thinking about loading Fedora 11 32-bit, mine works perfect.

This refers only to the bootable USB-drive version created by software run from within Windows.

It's a great idea, but let down by the implementation. I certainly wouldn't recommend it to any Windows users thinking about dipping their toes into Linux.

I'm sure I could get this thing connected to my wireless network, but I can't be bothered giving up the time to chase down some obscure 'fix'. The software is clearly not ready for 'ordinary' users.

Have been watching since fedora 8. I have been hoping that it would be very competitive to the Windows environment by fedora 12.

I like the idea of LiveCD/USB, but there are too many updates and I have many questions about strategies for partitioning flash drives. But the 1TB USB hard drives are quickly changing the lay of the land. Glad that CUPS works well.

I use Adobe Flash player and RealPlayer 10 Gold.
I realize that they are proprietary "tease ware", but mp3 amd flashvideo on YouTube are really valuable.
Use OpenOffice, Eclipse CDT, minGW, Mozilla/Foxfire.

OpenOffice Calc is still a disappointment. Even the results differ from Excel. Excel is clearly better.

I wanted to say that the price I paid was one week, but it accepts only money.

I'm not recommending it because it didn't fit my needs at all. It works fine for someone who uses the desktop (I presume). I use Linux for development and testing primarily of web applications and pages, so I need a box which will accurately emulate a server (Apache, mail, etc.)

I struggled with the install process for almost a week, and only got it to work by including Gnome (which I didn't want). Wihout Gnome (and I assume this applies to KDE and the other GUIs as well) the kernel would panic, unable to mount the root partition.

No help, no documentation. The only info on the web (via google) had a bunch of fixes for the specific errors, but none relevant. After 5 days I loaded the total vanilla system with gnome and it did boot. Attempting, then, to add packages of relevance to me caused it to choke again.

A colleague suggested that I use CentOS. Downloaded the dvd,
burned it, installed. No problems at all.

I realize that I may be using it in a different way from many, but at no time did Anaconda warn me that what I was doing might not work.

My experience is that Fedora sucked 1 week of my time which I couldn't afford.

I'm sure that the Fedora people are doing the best they can, but it sure didn't work for me.

PS: I hate panning a product. I'd much rather keep it to myself and suffer alone. But I'd hate more for others to have to go through what I went through.

Fedora 11 works great on my Thinkpad t400. It does everything I need it to. Fedora is a power user distro, so you have to expect to put some work into it for a overall excellent OS. RPMFusion hasn't released a kmod-fglrx yet, and fglrx is notorious for not working with F11. GRR! I liked F10's desktop background better, personally. Fedora works like a charm for me. Fedora is very bleeding edge but still more stable (and a TON faster) than Window$ Vi$ta.

I wouldn't recommend using F11 if you're a noob. I had to modify my BIOS settings so my drivers worked correctly, and change alot of stuff, but it wasn't that bad. Despite the "untestedness" of the fresh batch of partially-untested softare, it seems more stable than 'buntu 9.04.

Great Linux!

This is my favorite Linux Distro, it is available in many desktop environments,it is a very user friendly Linux Distro, great for beginners, I am new to Linux and I love this. It is easy to use and provides a comfortable,user friendly interface.

I like this distro but ran into a problem on my Lenovo 9142 w/4GB mem & nVidia running F11-64 DVD install. After the initial install it appeared to be working correctly and then I did the system updates. The system locked up with a white screen and the mouse pointer. I can load UBUNTU 9.04-64OS and it works after I do the upgrade. Would like to stay with F11 if possible.

Any suggestions?

how to download

udev is a little slow at my side,

pulseaudio when i get rid of it, alsa is not working anymore on snd-hda-intel compiled alsa,, no sound until i install pulseadio again.

download of google: oss linux: verry good rpm but no soundmixer is getting it.

I have tested several Linux Distributions (including ubuntu and PClinuxOS) but I find I have had the best experiance with Fedora 11.

I initially ran Fedora 10 on my Eeepc-904HA and I found that the Wireless access card could not be disabled, draining precious battery life, however this has been fixed in Fedora 11.

If you choose to use ext4 during the install you have to create a seperate /boot partition with another FS because you cannot boot from ext4 (or so the installer said).

ok i am fedora user was used fedora from 6 to 10 kde versions
recently i downloaded the latest version and with great expectation i run the live cd and BANG' it just gets stuck in the login screen .. stuck as in it loads when i try logging and brings me back to the login screen after few seconds ... i am guessing its because my comp. is old and VIA unichrome drivers arent there for it as it worked like a charm on my father's comp.. so support for VIA UNICHROME would be good

I have an acer AOA 110-1722
512 ram 8gig drive +16gid esd

in short i have two fingers up for fc11 and they are not thumbs

I have been running on fedora10 with autoten for quite sometime and everything works great.
about the only thing I have not been able to accomplish is getting Cricket modem A600 that is
An edvo cdma cellular modem visa vie USB drive.
none of the websites I have been alerted to involving this kind of modem have worked for me but other than that fedora 10 has been fantastic.

I have tried various spins and ways to make these spins bootable for fedora 11.
If it is not that it wont begin to install it will crash during the downloading of the software updates. I have been sent to the developers website on numerous occasions.

End result in this month long quest to attain fedora 11 I have opted to stay with fedora 10 for quite a time after its end of life.

for all of those with similar computers to my own and are fedora fans I would recommend the same.

Overall, I have not had a good experience with 11 on a D420 latitude, an optiplex gx620, a Toshiba NB205, but did ok on the HP mini 1025 netbook. Overall, stick with 10...its stable

Most releases, I can heartily recommend Fedora, and this January, when I got a hold of an Alpha build of Fedora 11 Live, I was sure it was bound to be their best release ever. Perhaps by the time all of the issues are sorted out and the software makes its way into a future release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), that will be the case, but for now, I ended up being very disappointed in the final release.

What particularly bothered me was that I made an attempt to report the issues during the testing cycle, and I also checked the testing forums, had confirmation that a number of others were seeing similar problems, so I was guardedly optimistic that the issues would be resolved; they were not.

Adam Williamson, one of the community leaders for the Fedora project, was very much defensive when a number of people lambasted the Fedora 11 release. He may have had some points, because some of the people that were critical were not offering any coherent explanations of what the problems where (basically, there were hardware support regressions, resulting in difficulties in writing the system to disk at installation time).

Is Fedora still worth looking at? ABSOLUTELY. First of all, the hardware issues do not affect everyone. Second, there are remix CD/DVD available following the release that may represent more stable software.

If you can, Fedora is a great way to get the very latest software and help debug and report problems. People who use Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the job are well to test Fedora - it just may help avoid future issues in released enterprise software and it helps the free software ecosystem.

You will notice that some rate this software highly in this thread and some will ding it. I would have rated it well in the past. I am hoping that I can test a remix soon and find the issues gone. Don't let my rating dissuade you from trying this software. If it works for you, it represents the very latest software. Try it live first, then get the installable version to install it.

I have installed, used and removed (at least!) 30 different distros over the last couple of years. The ones that stayed longest were Fedora, Mandriva, Sabayon and Suse. Maybe I ask too much of my OS, after all, that was my major interest in college... but they all fell short of my expectations. Sabayon was by far the slickest and most interesting, but the underlying Gentoo made it too unstable, after a while things would get messy, and I'd have too many applications (and even kernel!) crashes. Sorry -- but when a Solaris machine can run for years w/o reboot, so should Linux! Mandriva was easy to install, but after a while also became somewhat unstable (file system errors? unacceptable!).

Fedora seems to be the best compromise. It recognized my hardware (well, at least MOST of it :) and I was able to configure the system kinda the way I wanted it. Running on quad core CPU, with 8G memory and 4 1T SATA disks, it is pretty fast. I still have some problems with the browser (and "add ons" like Java & flash) sometimes, as well as loosing printers, audio issues (some were mentioned above -- had to install pulseaudio!!?? why?) and a few window managers that were not up to par -- I don't need or like the fluff that comes with Gnome or KDE, but found stripped down WMs to be very lacking in functionality. BTW, I ran the 64 bit kernel for a while, but (again because of java/etc. issues) gave up on hat -- at least for now -- and went back to the PAE kernel.

To sum it up, I still use Fedora as may main OS, and hope that one day, I will only use VirtualBox for testing new SW, rather then back door to run some Windows apps they are still not Linux-compatible.

BTW, what I mean by "slick" is not a lot of eye candy, but rather that is is "standard user" friendly, and error free while in use.