Hey there...

Seeing as how everyone is griping about all the problems that they are having with Fedora Core 2... (I was one of them at first... then realized it wasn't fedora, it was me.)

I just thought I'd pop in to say how super smooth and sexy it's runnign on my notebook... I'm not a having a single problem... aside from getting samba to work... but suck at that anyways... so it's not FC's fault.. lol..

Anyways... my big problem was witht he installation telling me that fedora core discs weren't in the cdrom drive... my MD5SUMs showed up right the first time... so I kept trying different things to work.. nothing helped... so I rechecked all my sums.. and discs 1 & 2 were bad... so I re-downloaded them and rechecked and they were fine... then my disc 2 burn ended up being a coaster.. again not FC's fault.. so I had to reburn that at a slower speed.. (16x).. then it worked fine.. and now I have it fully installed.. started doing some minor tweaking...

I've got MySQL running.. ColdFusion MX server running... Frozen-Bubble installed... up2date runs kind of slow... but that's probably just because of everyone using it... I'm only getting downloads at like 35K from it...

All in all... I like it a lot...I like the addition of the "Computer" icon... as well as the addition of K3B... (i don't remember it being part of the FC1 install.. though it may have been)

Just wanted to say that since getting over my own issues with the discs.. it's RUNNING GREAT!!

If you're running GNOME, you surely realised now that you're missing some icons such as Session (from Preference menu) eventhough the .desktop file exist.. and adding Opera will put the icon at three different places (Internet, Preference & System Setting) .. this is I guess mainly due to the application not compliance to the new GNOME 2.6 standard... there are few other apps with missing icons in the menu when you install the RPMs. I'll wait for another few months before touching the FC2 again.

FC2 is great. Just had it upgraded from FC1.

I have had the same result with fedora core 2 test 3....this is only the test wow I can't tell you how easy this has been, I have no problems really cept the rpm package manager but with apt and yum who needs it. doing a rpm in bash hasn't hurt me yet. This Version of Fedora has been the best for my sound card........I have Volume and I can adjust it if I want and it playes in all five speakers (Altec Lansing). When I can get my samsung digimax 240 to work and my lycros 40 Gig Personal Jukebox to work in here. (of all the reading and surfing and looking and reading still having problems) this will be the os of choice. I have turned on at least a dozen people at work with Fedora 2.

Gateway 500x pc
Yorktown Motherboard P-4
1024mb 333 mhz ddr sdram
2- 80 gig 7m ultra ata hard drives
128mb nvidia geforce4 mx440g graphics with tv out
dvd-ram-r/-rw/cdrw recorder
48x24x48 recordable rewritable cdrw
soundblaster audigy audio with IEEE 1394
miscrosoft optical trackball mouse

Hey there Halo14:
I just wanted to ask you what type of problems you had with fedora2 and samba. I am running fedora2 with samba on a lan with one winXP pro and an XP Home edi. It seems that Fedora 2 has taken over my prefferred browser and the XP machines will not access the network resources if the Fedora 2 box is not running. Could this be possible or is it something from Windows? This problem has my lan users worried about the capabilities of Linux and since I'm a nubee a word would be great.
Thankx for the help

P.S. If anyone else has an idea about this, plzzzz drop a line or 2

Installed FC2 yesterday:

Problem I had with "hanging" on logout in FC1, solved!

Problem I had with not powering down after halting. solved!

Difficulties I had with Xine, even though I had the latest ( think same) version in FC1, solved!

Speed, very much improved!

I suspect it's the 2.6 kernel on my fairly new mobo that makes most of the difference, but anyway I am really, really content with FC2 !! (Mind you, this is not a dual-boot machine)

Tonight I'm gonna try and install the nvidea driver, if that's as easy as it was in FC1 I think I'm gonna put on my wooden shoes and dance the dowski dance of Joy*!

FC2 is awesome!

*sorry for not owning a web cam, it's quite a sight :-)

Hey realnubee...

Your problem with Fedora taking over as your master browser is in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file... You need to edit that... have you used vim? if not i would recommend learning it before you do any file manipulation...

YOu need to change the smb.conf file for "master browser = no" and possibly lower your priority level... I'm not sure exactly how it's worded..(not on linux right now) but it's right below the master browser tag....

default i believe is somehwre around 33... you can lower it to 10-15... it just gives it a better change of winning the master browser competition when it boots up...

You said that the Windows boxes can't access resources whe the linux box is turned off though?? you mean like.. XP pro can't access XP home?? That's not right.. and it shouldn't have a thing to do with the fedora box being turned off.... I'm not sure what your problem is... but XP home edition sucks for networking.. so that's probably one fo your issues...

good luck.. let me know how it goes...

I upgraded from FC1, after an initial prob with ALSA (my fault) Everything works great. I'm looking forward to keeping it around for awhile. (I hope I don't have to upgrade until the 2.8 kernel.)

FC2 on a laptop? how does it run? I've been wanting to put a Distro on my laptop but havent found one i like, or has the compatibility with my laptop.

First I'll quote myself:

Well, except for the "compiling a kernel for the first time" -part, it was!

But guess what, I compiled my own 2.6.6 kernel, and it works! Another milestone in a n00bs life. Think I'll fetch my wooden shoes now...

FC2 not only rules, it's educational too!

lol

thanks Halo14.

I,m finally comfortable using vi from the command line. So I have already looked at smb.conf and see where you mean os level = 33. Would you recommend lowering it or leaving it at the default? I would suppose that samba being the master browser would be better.

To be specific about the problem I experience on the lan, I currently run on the lan two XP Pro boxes, a XP Home and FC2. Strangely enough, I first installed RH9 serveral weeks ago and never notices the problem. No with FC2 when it is not running, on the XP PRO and XP HOME boxes when i click on a network connection in windows there is about a 1-2 minute delay before it will access the share. But, when I turn on the FC2 box all is well and the shares are accessed immediately from XP PRO to XP HOME and visa versa. As i mentioned before this behavior also happens when samba is turned off on FC2.

A friend told me that it could possible be a M$ bug since xp pro will not let anyone in who does not have an account on that machine, and therefore the other machines are not able to gather info about the network shared resources. Does that sound reasonable?

Before installing linux i had a Win 2k server running mearly as a print server. And so also never experience this problem. I du no... Too much of a newbie. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again.

I'm also happy with it. Just to save some time on researching it, what player do you use to view video files like mpegs etc.

Thanks
Manuel

Totem is awesome!

totem sucks go with mplayer or xine....