Joff_NZ's Journal: Fedora Core 2

A few observations on Fedora Core Linux 2:

1) The spatial file manager in Gnone 2.6 is just lame. Its like i'm back in 1987 and I'm using the AmigaOS method of navigating my files. I've turned the behaviour back to the navigator mode - which required digging about in GConf.

All this is just not good enough. The option should have at least been in the GUI preferences.

2) The new file open dialog is kind of cool, except none of the apps i've tried actually use it. The only thing i've seen it in is when you browse to install a new gnome theme. At that point, the lack of having anywhere to type in the path became glaringly obvious. Ugh.

3) THE GODDAMN INSTALLER SCREWED UP MY PARTITION TABLE. I was just performing an upgrade from FC1 -> FC2, keeping the same partitions and everything, and goddamn anaconda overwrote the partition table with god knows what values. This is a KNOWN bug, which has been known for AGES. It has not been fixed. How FC2 even shipped with this still in there is just beyond belief. I am now in the firm belief that the QA process at Fedora is utterly sub-standard

I think for my next linux install, i will very seriously consider using an entirely different distribution.. maybe one of the more bleeding edge debians...