[ale] Fedora

Brandon Colbert brandon at geekrus.net
Sun Oct 24 21:02:26 EDT 2004


James P. Kinney III wrote:

>I've done several FC2 installs and 2 upgrades from RH9->FC2 and one
>upgrade from RH8->FC2. All have been very smooth.
>
>The only glitch I have found so far may be a hardware issue with a
>possible flaky IDE tape drive on a Dell server.
>
>I do recommend as soon as FC2 is installed to do a "yum upgrade" to
>bring on all new bug and security fixes.
>
>The only places I have had any issues have been on the RHx->FC2 upgraded
>machines. I have some issues with the official FC2 mozilla crashing (it
>needs to be upgraded) and some issues with Evolution crashing on the
>RH8->FC2 machine. Several prior apps had to be upgraded or recompiled
>(as to be expected). Some new apps (scribus) work much better than
>before.
>
>I have not hit any "show stopper" bugs. Bear in mind, I'm not a KDE user
>and RH derivatives have a long history of not having the best KDE setup.
>FC2 now ships with XFCE as an environment option (which is really nice
>for those low memory, low speed laptops I have).
>
>On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 19:50, Brandon Colbert wrote:
>  
>
>>I was thinking about switching from Mandrake 10 to Fedora Core 2, but I 
>>think there is some bugs left. Has anyone came across any in Fedora Core 
>>2?  "Nice interface."
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Thanks. I'll pull down and install all the updates.

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