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Old 01-17-2009, 06:28 PM   #1
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Fedora 10 - Good So Far - Hints and Tips?


I've been out of the Linux community for a while, and upon reading some news saw that Fedora 10 had been released. I'm running the Gnome Live-CD version of Fedora 10 and just doing some diags. So far, even running from the CD and with some of the animations on, it is snappier and more responsive than Vista is running from the hard drive. It's on par with Vista running in Classic mode. I'm backing up some documents to a USB hard drive and the file transfers are going faster too by about 1/3. I'm doing this on a Compaq Presario C751NR. I've had all sorts of different OS's on this box, and the one thing that keeps making me put Windows back on it is World of Warcraft, lawl. Even when I've gotten it to run in Wine, the framerate is just too low to be playable, I'm thinking about just throwing Windows on an external hard drive and carrying it around just in case I feel like playing WoW. I don't want to dual boot because then there's a whole bunch of non-contiguous free space in each partition that I can't just group together for storing larger files, and on a 120 GB hard drive I need all the free space I can get for my DVD-rips. (It's easier than carrying around the DVDs) I'm just curious if there's anything I should know about this particular release since I've been out of the picture for about a year now. I think the last time I used Fedora was Fedora Core 5.

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Old 01-22-2009, 11:57 AM   #2
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I've been testing it has primary OS for about a month now on my laptop and here are my impressions.

First, if you don't have to, don't install the x64 edition. There is actually some compatibility problems with flash. Even tough it's not a big problem. I searcged for maybe an hour or two on the internet to install the Flash plugin Alpha version (10) that works on x64. But you'll have to install it manually.

Personally I think this is the only "bad" thing actually about this release so far.
 
Old 01-22-2009, 01:09 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by MetallicaQC View Post
I've been testing it has primary OS for about a month now on my laptop and here are my impressions.

First, if you don't have to, don't install the x64 edition. There is actually some compatibility problems with flash. Even tough it's not a big problem. I searcged for maybe an hour or two on the internet to install the Flash plugin Alpha version (10) that works on x64. But you'll have to install it manually.

Personally I think this is the only "bad" thing actually about this release so far.
If you mean the adobe flash player oke you have to install manually ,
but it could be down within 5 min.
This even discused on this forum how to do it

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Old 01-22-2009, 07:12 PM   #4
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If you mean the adobe flash player oke you have to install manually ,
but it could be down within 5 min.
This even discused on this forum how to do it
That is what I meant. Actually it took me an hour to find the right solution but yes it takes 5 min to fix it.
 
  


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