Fedora Linux

Subject: Fedora Linux January 15th 2008, 11:58 pm

alright, ive been using fedora for a while now and i really like it but when i ran the setup the first time i managed to screw up some stuff like the login screen. its not the beautiful Fedora Bluecurve logon, its the stupid flower with the crappy KDE style menus. Also SELinux is getting insanly annoying and the Fedora forums dont offer any help on fixing that. Do u guys think its worth it to do a clean install? I mean its fast and stuff but then i have to reload all my apps, all my music, all my plugins, i have to backup torrents, i have to back up emails... is it worth it? Also, if u think u know of a better distro than Fedora, or even another alternative OS (free only please tongue

) please do tell! OUT!

EDIT: Thanks for moving this Markoz wink

(no thumbs up smilie?)

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digging out this old thread ^^
I have to say, that I don't think, that Fedora is the right choice...
I have been using a lot of distributions till now.
I tried Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, openSuse, Debian, VectorLinux, Mandriva, Gentoo, ArchLinux and many more.
Till now, I think, that Archlinux is the best distribution (for me), it runs faster than any other ditribution i tried.
Also there is almost every package you need in the repositories. There is no need to add a custom repository, because there is the AUR (Arch User Repository). People can build their own packages and share them with other users.

I am using Backtrack on my EeePC. This distribution is based on Slax, which is based on Slackware.
Runs very fast till now, even with compiz-fusion enabled.
I chose Backtrack, because it is completely supported on the EeePC smile

The next thing I want to do, is to install FreeBSD. Yeh, I know, it's not Linux wink

Senior Member From : Washington OS : Mac OS X Leopard

I like Ubuntu and Fedora 8. I have Ubuntu on my machine now, that is only because they have a huge community and were very helpful to me with driver issues.

Subject: Re: Fedora Linux April 7th 2008, 11:04 pm

lol, oldie thread but atm im using Ubuntu as my main for school cause the IT guy offers support for it, Slax, Arch, SUsE, Freespire, Linspire, Golbin Linux, AlineX, and FreeBSD for my home netowkr

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Ubuntu - I use.
Archlinux - Will use.
Backtrack - Have used, and will use when I get EEEPc.
Fedora - Crap IMO, unless if you are in a corporation happy

Member From : Duluth, Minnesota, USA OS : Mac OS X Leopard

To me, Ubuntu and Fedora are pretty much the same thing. FTW.

Subject: Re: Fedora Linux May 15th 2008, 7:52 pm

WOW, Fedora and Ubuntu are COMPLETELY different from my perspective... if you dont mess with the actualy OS then you won't know what i mean. on the cover they are both essentially the same but ubuntu has more overall support wink

Member From : Duluth, Minnesota, USA OS : Mac OS X Leopard

Well, I'd probably know that if I had admin privileges. tongue

I'm New OS : openSUSE 11.0

ubuntu
gSpace I use!

fedora i used!

Subject: Re: Fedora Linux May 17th 2008, 8:43 am

so install it mate! tongue

gSpace? never heard of it... not the same thing as gOS right?

Subject: Re: Fedora Linux May 18th 2008, 1:10 pm

yes it is

, and you are using alineX wich is a portuguese distribution =D.

Me i used Fedora Core, Opensuse, Suse, Mandriva, kubuntu..

Now i'm using gOS Space 2.9... and im lovin' it =P

Subject: Re: Fedora Linux May 18th 2008, 1:14 pm

I'm not much of a linux fan myself surprised

. I tried ubuntu a couple of times and gave up on it

Member From : NC, USA OS : OS X Leopard 10.5.4

I've been using Fedora and Ubuntu for a while now on my test box. I've always found Fedora to be somewhat bloated with software that the average person will never need, while Ubuntu is more back to basics. Ubuntu is everything you need with a little eye candy on the side tongue

Senior Member From : Washington OS : Mac OS X Leopard

alxz310 wrote:: I'm not much of a linux fan myself . I tried ubuntu a couple of times and gave up on it

When you work at it and get it to what you want it to be its amazing.

Subject: Re: Fedora Linux June 3rd 2008, 2:59 am

purry wrote:

alxz310 wrote:: I'm not much of a linux fan myself . I tried ubuntu a couple of times and gave up on it

When you work at it and get it to what you want it to be its amazing.

seriously for me... no its not. I'd rather spend $399 on vista, theres my 5 cents.
Ubuntu is too buggy in graphical and interface terms, sure its more secure and more stable OS but it does not fit with my every day uses. I HATE the way fonts look on it, especially with websites and my printer doesnt work with it and there are issues with the wireless card as well, so you see driver problems.

Subject: Re: Fedora Linux June 5th 2008, 7:15 am

those havnt been fixed? fonts can be changed easy wink

you give up too fast mate! lazy bum T_T ^_^

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You can change the way fonts are rendered. And there are thousands more free great fonts on the net. Don't give up that easily, remember when you first using windows, what was it like? Annoying? Happy? Are you really content with what windows can offer you?
If you were, then I believe that you would never tried linux.

Subject: Re: Fedora Linux June 27th 2008, 8:39 pm

when i had first used windows i admit, my dream was to become a windows developer. now i am disgusted at the very thought xD windows is amazing to those who know nothing else. arrogance is bliss as they say.

btw, as far as nautilus goes, there are now scripts for auto installation of fonts, u still have to restart ur computer but u dont need to do all of the cacheing manually happy

Subject: Re: Fedora Linux August 18th 2008, 12:47 pm

for unix noobs, the better really is Ubuntu... don't say vista is better please! because it's not, even WinXP is better than vista for god's sake. installing fonts is really easy, just google, u don't need extra apps to modify the environment of it, if you have a decent nvidia card (something like Geforce 5200, all the way up), it will work like charm...

fedora, in the other hand, takes to much time to install, i installed it 2 times, and each one took 1H and 30 minutes, and ubuntu, took like 20~30 minutes... with driver installation included.

peace

Subject: Re: Fedora Linux August 20th 2008, 5:57 pm

I dunno hats wrong with your livecd but my fedora installs in about 20 min or so...

Subject: Re: Fedora Linux September 5th 2008, 11:57 am

alxmarcond wrote:: I dunno hats wrong with your livecd but my fedora installs in about 20 min or so...

i think the real problem of my Fedora installation is that i'm instaling the DVD version... too much software too choose from.....

Subject: Re: Fedora Linux September 5th 2008, 4:01 pm

ahhh, just try downloading the 700MB ISO