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?"

Re:Can I upgrade without reinstalling

[Anonymous Coward]

If it's a contest for ridiculously (and needlessly) ugly installer, then you're right. Debian rules.

I just installed Debian stable (sarge) for the first time. The partitioning portion of the install went fine. But, the part where you actually choose _what_ will be installed was UGLY. And, when the install was finished, I was left with a non-functioning X environment. Running startx brought me to an X screen with an error something like, "No window manager detected. No .Xsession or .xsession file detected..."

So, I just had to know to run "apt-get install kde" to actually get a functioning X system? What kind of stupid installer selects and installs the X server but no window manager? Hell, RH 4.1 (not RHEL) "Vanderbildt" had a better installer ten years ago. Idiotic.

Oh, also, if you're looking for a distro that's only compiled for i386 and nothing higher on the x86 platform (i586, i686, amd64, etc.) then Debian is your guy.

IMHO, aside from being the OSS purist distro, Debian is for people who need that little ego boost for having installed and configured a distro by hand -- but aren't willing to go the gentoo route.

Desktop Effects very cool

[spiritraveller]

Just turned on the wobbling windows and workspaces in a cube. I thought this required some fancy new video card. My card and the machine it's connected to are at least 5 years old.

But it worked out of the box!

This is good stuff.