Who uses Fedora?

Use it as my main OS, enjoy it mostly. Prefer it to Ubuntu (which I used as my work OS for a long time). Presto is one of the Fedora features I missed in Ubuntu, whenever it downloaded a > 50Mb upgrade package I'd lament the lack of delta packages.
 
ponder said:
What's your opinion on the OS?
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It's to Red Hat Enterprise Linux what Debian Unstable is to Debian Stable, just not as stable.

ponder said:
This http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Presto just caught my interest.
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SUSE has had this for years - since around version 9 or thereabout. For home use I like the idea (certainly did back then as I was on 56k dial-up) but for production servers I much prefer the full packages with a local distribution (like RHN satellite or proxy). I've lost count of the number of times I've had to pull down a package, and unpack it to check something.
 
I run fedora 16 64bit on my home pc. I have not had any problems with it. To me it feels more "finished" than a distro like Ubuntu.

A clean install is not multimedia friendly. You have to follow a short guide to get mp3's and movies playing. It is as easy as copy+paste a few lines into the command line then its all set.

The delta updates are great too. It makes a huge difference on my 384k line. 3G users can also benefit from the smaller downloads.
 
Jimmeh said:
I run fedora 16 64bit on my home pc. I have not had any problems with it. To me it feels more "finished" than a distro like Ubuntu.

A clean install is not multimedia friendly. You have to follow a short guide to get mp3's and movies playing. It is as easy as copy+paste a few lines into the command line then its all set.

The delta updates are great too. It makes a huge difference on my 384k line. 3G users can also benefit from the smaller downloads.
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Autoplus: http://dnmouse.org/autoten/
 
Thanks for the feedback people, keep it coming.

I'll be very honest and say I have not touched a rpm based distro since many many years ago as i was not fond of the package management. Time has marched on and I might just consider trying F17 when it is released next month.


milomak said:
Try looking into this - http://debdelta.debian.net/
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Thanks, I don't think this is available for ubuntu though. I like debian a lot but I'm not so fond of the older packages it ships with and this includes testing.
 
ponder: what differences have you found between a debian distro and fedora, beside the package management system?
 
etherion said:
ponder: what differences have you found between a debian distro and fedora, beside the package management system?
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I've never used Fedora before, when I mentioned rpm I was thinking back to a old version of Red Hat.
 
ponder said:
Thanks for the feedback people, keep it coming.

I'll be very honest and say I have not touched a rpm based distro since many many years ago as i was not fond of the package management. Time has marched on and I might just consider trying F17 when it is released next month.




Thanks, I don't think this is available for ubuntu though. I like debian a lot but I'm not so fond of the older packages it ships with and this includes testing.
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Ubuntu starts from Debian Sid. That's the comparison.

I've been running Debian Sid as my main OS for the last 5 to 7 years.

As long as you have apt-listbugs installed, you should never have issues with Sid. And you'll be running the latest version software.
 
I´ve had Fedora 17 Beta running for about a week and while some of the rpm packages still need polishing it´s running all my F16 stuff OK. I don´t recommend installing from the Live CD (nvidia & ATI support is dodgy) rather go for the install DVD at this point if you want to try it in a VM or have a spare HDD lying around, don´t attempt a dual boot setup on a production system.

I´m using the Easylife and Gnome Shell Frippery extensions which add Gnome 2 style menus/taskbars to Gnome 3 icons.


Easylife: http://sourceforge.net/projects/easylife-linux/
Gnome Shell Frippery: http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html

Fedora 17 Beta 2 screenshots (warning +/- 2Mb each):

Hot Corner: [URL=http://imgur.com/GDSJt][/URL]
Icon Based Menu:
Pulldown Menus: [URL=http://imgur.com/F0WFp][/URL]
Type to Find: [URL=http://imgur.com/NzuOm][/URL]
 
When F17 is released, I will give an upgrade a go seeing how well the last update I did went (F15 -> F16). Only thing is that my setup is still using legacy grub as for some reason I didn't manage to get that upgraded when I moved to F16.

I am hearing very good things of F17, so I can't wait.
 
hmmmm, think i'll try out fedora in VB. and see.
do you think you'll be able to install F17 on older machines or will it be like ubuntu 12.04 where you need a fast GPU and some RAM?
 
Things to do after installing Fedora:

1. Update.
2. Disable SELinux if you plan to be using samba for file sharing (unless you have sufficient knowledge of SElinux). http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US...h_SELinux-Enabling_and_Disabling_SELinux.html
3. Get Autoplus (http://dnmouse.org/autoten/) and install codecs and apps you need.
4. If you using an Nvidia GPU, install akmod-nvidia. The RPM fusion repo's were most likely installed in step 3 when you installed your codecs.
5. Install gnome-tweak-tool and change icon theme to faenza (http://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/Faenza-Icons-173323228). The only icon pack you ever need.
6. In gnome-tweak-tool, change fonts if you wish (Droid sans is a great font) or just leave default and make them smaller (I hate the default font size).
7. Open up Firefox and go to: https://extensions.gnome.org/ and install the following extensions: Alternate Status Menu, remove-accessibility-icon, User Themes. NetMonitor lite is pretty useful too.
8. Install Google Chrome :D
9. Enjoy!
 
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They are still pushing SELinux as a default setting? Well I guess that's the Red Hat tax.
 
I use F16. Other than setting up codecs at install it's been pretty pain-free. I would recommend Cinnamon as the desktop tho ;)
 
I been using Fedora for a while now...thanks for all the great tips!!
 
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