Fedora Project

[mtxblau]

To get to the point, has anyone tried it yet? For the uninitiated, it is the latest version of Redhat.

Edit: Before it gets out of hand, it's free/open source version that has Red Hat Engineers working on it, but not supported by Red Hat in any way. An off-shoot project. And it's free.

I'm downloading it now, to try on my laptop. RH 9 works on this machine (according to what I've read) however my RH 9 CDs crapped out, and the download for Fedora is going much faster (on torrent, 2k vs 131kb). I wonder if the driver RPMs made for redhat work on this...

 

[Curtis]

I've not tried it, but it gets the thumbs up from ARS Technica.

 

[it290]

I haven't tried it myself, but I used Red Hat versions 5 through 8, and grew to hate them more and more over the years. Gentoo is where its at, and if that's not possible, Debian. 😉

 

[mtxblau]

Hate them? Why? I've used Mandrake, SuSe, and Redhat, and of the three I like it the best. Granted, I haven't used Gentoo yet, but RH seems to be the most reliable.

In any event, the FP Core 1 isn't very good - yet. It's pretty buggy, for right now. It's a project in the making, with a noble ideal, but for mission critical stuff, it's not where it's at yet.

 

[antime]

The project states explicitly that it's intended for hobbyists and people who like to tinker and stay on the beeding edge of things. If you have a "mission-critical" setup Fedora is never going to be the right choice.

 

[mtxblau]

Oh I know that. Mission critical wasn't the right term. I guess functional would've been (much) better. It had difficulty in doing just about everything, unfortunately.

 

[it290]

Hate them? Why? I've used Mandrake, SuSe, and Redhat, and of the three I like it the best. Granted, I haven't used Gentoo yet, but RH seems to be the most reliable.

Just because I think RPM sucks and RPM dependencies really suck. Debian and Gentoo have much more sensible and better package managment systems.

 

[mtxblau]

Ok, set up, running (almost) flawlessly - had to turn off USB (design fault, not Redhat's, just need to recomile some stuff) and I don't know if PCMCIA works, since I don't need it.

Now, any ideas for a decent mp3 player? Looks like XMMS doesn't do that anymore...

 

[antime]

Try the XMMS binaries from Freshrpms.net or download the sources and build them yourself. RedHat haven't included MP3 support in their distros for a while now due to patent resons.

 

[it290]

Yeah, the 'no mp3 support' in XMMS is just a RedHat thing. I use xmms mainly, but Rhythmbox is a nice alternative if you're running GNOME and want an iTunes-alike type program. Also AFAIK you don't need to recompile all of XMMS, you can just compile the MP3 plugin (or get a prebuilt one) and install that seperately.

 

[mtxblau]

Thanks for the heads up. I got the new(er) xmms from xmms.org and it works fine now.

On the last three laptops I've installed Linux on, I never had sound (Crystal Audio is impossible to get working) so I hadn't realized there was no mp3 support up until now. What a pain.