Fedora Core 6 Review

luna6 writes to tell us that they have posted a pretty thorough review of Fedora Core 6 with the installation procedure and even a few work arounds for the couple of bugs encountered during the process to help users get up and running smoothly. From the article: "To sum up Fedora Core 6, I will say that once you have it set up properly FC 6 runs very impressively. I had the impression that FC 6 may have been rushed, just because of the handful of minor bugs that appeared. The mixup of arches, i586 & i686 was weird and the first system update having a update conflict was a glaring error, even though it was easy to fix. Setting up the Nvidia drivers was way more problematic than it should have been. I should also note that Mandriva 2007 worked from the start with AIGLX and their 3D drake worked flawlessly. With that stated once the minor problems were fixed, Fedora Core 6 worked as well as any Linux distro I have tried and the visuals were second to none. Well except the default icons...but we have something to look forward to in FC 7 now don't we?"

Does it support WPA-PSK out of the box?

[Rob Simpson]

SUSE does, Ubuntu does not. SUSE only requires a couple clicks and entering the network ID/password, while even the instructions for getting WPA running on Ubuntu are daunting [ubuntu.com]. How does Fedora compare?

Why linux sucks on desktops....

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Fonts. Linux weenies delude themselves that fonts under Xorg are just fine nowadays. BZZT. Compared to XP with cleartype the quality of font rendering in Xorg is laughable. Importing the XP fonts into a Linux system makes no difference, because they just do not look as good.

2. Klunky UI's. Both Gnome and KDE are horrible in terms of wasting screen space. Also the UI's just don#t look as clean and polished as XP. I see rough edges on widgets, and various other things that makes UI's look cheap.

If they ever get resolved then things might be different.

Feeding the Troll

[Einstein_101]

1) Actually, I run KDE with nVidia drivers installed, and I made it a point to ask people how the fonts look (since it used to be such a big issue with Linux newbies. When asked, numerous Windows users either said they looked nice, or they looked better than Windows.

2) KDE can easily be changed to take us less screen space. If you ever decide to give up your career in trolling and start using computer software, I recommend you try DesktopBSD [desktopbsd.net]. By default, they size down the KDE taskbar, making it the same size as Windows XP.

If they ever get things "resolved", then people like you would be crying that they're trying to look too much like Windows.

Re:Setting up the Nvidia drivers

[coaxial]

There is just something about working from a commmand line and manually doing a lot of the maintnance and setup that the inner geek craves.

I understand how you want to Know every bit of your machine, but frankly there's better things to do. Like actually working on cool stuff. These problems are solved. Don't go and reinvent the wheel and spend your time fiddling with trival things. There aren't enough hours in the day to spend so many doing that.

I'm tempted to give the GF Ubuntu and try out FC6 (or maybe something like gentoo or slackware for a true uber-geek OS experienc).

I used slackware Back in The Day(tm), I can't comment on it 10 years later. Gentoo always struck me as the ultimate loser distro. You know like the losers who stick neonlights underneath their honda civic and then proudly display kanji stickers on their rearwindow upside down, because kanji is k3w1, but they don't know what it is. There's no point to compiling everything from source. All you're doing is putting your machine in an usuable state for a long time. The benfit is nonexistent and negligable at best. Unless you're installing on ancient or esoteric hardware what's the point. There's no real difference between your P4 and some other guy's P4, or hell even a third guy's athlon.