Fedora 10 is out and out to Rock!

[kalpik]

Sounds good, but im good with Arch! I had everything Fedora 10 has, about a month ago on arch But nevertheless, a good distro for a beginner. I can see Fedora is now giving a lot of competition to Ubuntu. The only other noob distro is OpenSuSE, which i HATE for reasons QwertyManiac will agree with

[mediator]

Originally Posted by gary4gar

I am Done with Distro Hopping because i realized that i am spending too much time in "setting & installing stuff " rather than actually working on my workstation.

Fedora Looks cool, but my current distro would stay on for a long long time...

Congrats buddy or otherwise most people just distro hop 24x7, decorate their desktops, witness the limits of their talent, get bored and then press the switch again!

[Dark Star]

F10 KDE has kde package kit as the package manager ?

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by Hitboxx

You don't understand me, the DVD will be a bloat, I mean yeah it's a collectors item if you want the whole she-bang, but to get it up and running in no time, I prefer the live cd. It will install in under ~6-7 minutes, then fire up the net and you are good to go.

GNOME has always been traditionally faster on my PC, so I stick with it. I tried the KDE preview install and I got lost into it. I know every nook and corner of GNOME, can't say the same about KDE. So, irrespective of distro, me is partial to GNOME.

No idea about the XFCE custom spin.

And probably LFY with ship with the DVD soon I guess, so you can wait, although I ain't sure what arch it is going to be.

My problem is that I can't run live on my pathetic rig. So I need DVD's Anaconda installer.

Anyway, since you say gnome has been faster on your PC, and since one of my friends with a P4 1.7GHz (i686 only) in an 845 or 865 intel motherboard with 1GB Transcend DDR400 RAM wants to try linux, I am downloading the Gnome i686 live CD at the moment.

Hopefully, I can bear with the PATHETIC install times of gnome.

But I am going to try getting the 64bit DVD some day.

Originally Posted by chandru.in

JRE is the runtime environment for Java. Both proprietary Java and FOSS Java provide it.

OpenJDK and IcedTea are exactly same as far as the code base is considered. While official OpenJDK site provides binary plugs for building the code, IcedTea uses fully free tools to build the same code.

Are there any performance difference between the three ?
And what about the flash part ?

Originally Posted by T159

I am disappointed at the KDE treatment, the package manager is not that good. Keep on getting crashes :/ I will wait for a distro with KDE 2 (probably Mandriva)

Will get gnome version in few days

KDE 2 ? I suggest you try Debian Potato.

[Faun]

^^I meant KDE 4.2

[chandru.in]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

Are there any performance difference between the three ?
And what about the flash part ?

There should be no visible difference in performance as all of them are built out of same code base.

No comments about Flash.

[Hitboxx]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

Hopefully, I can bear with the PATHETIC install times of gnome.

The Live CD installation of Fedora is different from other distros, it is a very simple disk image transfer where-by-in it will ask for only basic details of user creation, partitions, etc. Then all it does is copy the image from the CD to the HDD without asking anything else, and then you reboot into the new environment, pretty effective if you ask me. I got mine installed in 4 mins.

[Faun]

yup, installation is breeze fast. Just what I want for every OS

[Hitboxx]

The howto is up on http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f10.html , easy as pie.

Get the 64bit Flash from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html , it works great even though its alpha, no need for any wrappers now.

[ThinkFree]

Downloaded the gnome 64bit live cd. Installation was super fast. Within 18 minutes, I was able to use fedora 10 installed on hard disk.
It took 4.10 minute to boot live session, 5:00minute for settings like time zone and partition(shouldn't have taken more than 2 min but due to some reason), 4:20 minutes to copy image to hard disk and other 4 minutes for installing bootloader and creating a new user after rebooting on my laptop.

Originally Posted by Hitboxx

Get the 64bit Flash from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html , it works great even though its alpha, no need for any wrappers now.

How to install that? Getting segmentation error

[Hitboxx]

Sorry, forgot to mention it. Extract the file libflashplayer.so into /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins. Be sure to remove/rename the 32bit one if you had wrapped that from /usr/lib/flash-plugin.

[ThinkFree]

^^Thanks, working now.

[Hitboxx]

Coming to the wonderful Plymouth booting, if you see just a basic bar at the bottom, it means your video card is not supported yet. It is officially supported on ATi cards currently and will be made on Intel and then nVidia cards soon. However, non-ATi card owners can experience it using a nifty hack thereby which it will use the VESA mode to display the artwork. This may/may-not work depending on the card. I have a nVidia card and it works perfectly.

Add vga=0x318 to the end of the kernel line in your /boot/grub/grub.conf

title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64)
root (hd0,9)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64 ro root=UUID=b1b61899-dac7-45b0-ac3f-bb23eb1055d0 rhgb quiet vga=0x318
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64.img

To get additional plugins, do (Solar is the default one)

sudo yum install plymouth-plugin-fade-in plymouth-plugin-pulser plymouth-plugin-spinfinity

To change the plugins, do

sudo plymouth-set-default-plugin <pluginname> i.,e[fade-in/pulser/spinfinity]
sudo /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd <- this is to rebuild initrd so it gets updated.

For more details on Plymouth, visit http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_plymouth&num=1
For videos, see youtube http://in.youtube.com/results?search...edora+plymouth

[abhijangda]

yeah i love fedora presently using fedora 9 i wish digit will supply fedora 10 with it soon

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

i am having installation issues.
the installation hangs at package no 76 ! during install. complete hang ! only rest button provides a response !

i downloaded it via torrents ! the x86 _64 one !
what's the problem guys ?

[Hitboxx]

Bad burn or bad download? Did you check the md5sum of the downloaded file? Did you try one more burn?

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

MD5 Is perfect Match !!
I wrote it onto a DVD R/W !
May be the R/W disk died too soon.

Then i had also tried Fedora 9 i386 !! It will bootup nicely then finally at login time while loading nautilus it just goes blank and black and dead ! BSOD !

Ubuntu 8.10 seems to have many bugs ! have to update that else try Fedora i386 !