anyone try it out yet? whatcha think? did you update from a previous FC?

i currently have FC3 on my laptop, and its been pretty decent. but now i need the 2.6.16 kernel so im either gonna upgrade to FC5, or change distros (maybe Kubuntu).

just tryign to get an idea of what distro you guys think are better. i dont have time to keep re-installing OS's, so ill be sticking with whichever one for a while.

3/28/2006 2:41:45 AM

Why do you need the 2.6.16 kernel?

3/28/2006 2:42:56 AM

my old prismII chipset wont go into monitor mode, but the newest hostap_cs drivers (included in 2.6.14) fixes this -- but it doesnt play well with pcmcia-cs, which is deprecated in 2.6 and replaced by pcmcia-utils as of 2.6.13.

so technically i guess i only need 2.6.14 or greater, but since FC3 only updates to 2.6.10, i might as well jump to either FC5 or something entirely different. i sure don't want to try patching all this mess just to keep FC3 legacy alive.



[Edited on March 28, 2006 at 3:40 AM. Reason : ]

3/28/2006 3:14:41 AM

To anybody curios: The duke mirror gave me 100kb+ on the DVD iso. Couldn't find the DVD on NCSU space when I looked last week.

3/28/2006 5:33:20 AM

i upgraded from FC4. I was a little worried because my computer is several years old (PIII 1Ghz). FC5, well gnome at least, seems to run much smoother and noticeably faster than it did on FC4.

3/28/2006 7:33:50 AM

this is a fast mirror:

ftp://venkman.dontcamp.com/FC5/FC-5-i386-DVD.iso

3/28/2006 10:05:46 AM

yeah, I installed it the day it came out

apparently State had it up by the release date, but never made the files viewable till like 5 days later (they're up now).. I got the iso from the university of south florida's ftp server, avged. about 270kb/sec, not bad

few things improved, yum for instance.. it has a simple update gui if you want to use it (pup) (yumex was there before though) and in general yum seems to work better.. the add/remove software (another yum gui) is also better, before there was just 'install off cd' for a package manager (that I noticed anyways)
the wireless network manager is also much better..
everything seems to run quicker with more stability as of now, but it is a clean install..

somthin about the release kernel is odd, cant get the drivers for my ati mobility card from http://rpm.livna.org yet [for 3d accel, default drivers display everything fine], should be fixxed ~ soon..

if you have a slower computer xfce is availble, 'yum groupinstall xfce' I think, quick and light, but with less features than kde or gnome

oh. and http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/

3/28/2006 12:23:02 PM

Quote :

"my old prismII chipset wont go into monitor mode"

and what did you need monitor mode for?

3/28/2006 1:09:19 PM

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"I got the iso from the university of south florida's ftp server, avged. about 270kb/sec, not bad"

Yeah thats same place I got it.

Wish I had known about that dontcamp before then though. I tried it out and it maxed out my RR at 600

3/28/2006 1:39:08 PM

Quote :

"and what did you need monitor mode for? "

Well, it's mostly odd things I do ... helping like, here and there as it might be.

3/29/2006 1:12:34 AM

goddammit.

i just burned the five (5) .iso CD's to install this thing (FC5), and it crapped out while copying the image to the hard drive with "Not Enough Disk Space"

I mean, really. FIVE freaking CDs for a linux distro? and all its supposed to be doing is updating from FC3 to FC5 anyhow. and you say Windoze is bloatware

My laptop has an 8 Gig harddrive. No one needs more than 8 Gigs, right?

3/29/2006 3:45:33 AM

heh. read somewhere vista is going to be 40-60% bigger than xp, dont have a quote though

windows comes on one disk, but still takes up 4-6 gigs on your hdd

fedora comes on one dvd (or 5 cds) and takes up ~1-6 gigs on your hdd depending on packages

its all in how the installer works.. windows also takes ~2-4 hours to install, depending if you have to format the drive, I had fedora up and runnin' in an hour and fifteen.. only took that long because I took a little bit choosing packages.. this is with a full format of my 28 gig linux partitian (which took ~16 seconds)

3/29/2006 7:26:20 AM

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"windows also takes ~2-4 hours to install"

i've NEVER seen windows take 2 hours to install, unless you are formatting an entire 250 gig drive at once, instead of making an OS partition of 10-20 gigs like you should.

3/29/2006 8:08:26 AM

^
Probably meant to say w/updates and additional software installs. Fedora Core takes care of that (more or less).

Any TWW feedback so far on it?

3/29/2006 10:32:08 AM

I run Fedora5 at home and I dont have any issues.

Yeah it's a 5gig disk but I have always picked the minimal install and added everything i needed on my own.

3/29/2006 10:39:51 AM

*shrug*
my roommate's P4 dell laptop took ~2.5 hours to ntfs format a 60 gig hdd.. donno why it was so slow, but is sure was.. no errors, just slow

but yeah, I had FC5 up and runnin', everything installed and mostly configured the way I wanted it, in under 3 hours
I had backed up most of my /home so it was fairly simple.. modified my old background a bit, but other than that..

btw, should I install a separate firewall like firestarter or shorewall? Fedora has an internal one, am I right in thinking that its good enough?

3/29/2006 12:06:11 PM

iptables is on there


just read up on it

3/29/2006 1:41:10 PM