I thought the install went well. Since I installed everything, I guess I would not have
run into as many dependancy problems. I did install everything because from past
experience the package management tools that came with RHL in its previous life
were not that great.
From what I could tell most things worked as I expected them to, and there were
some improvements with some of the GUI configuration utilities.
It is a little early in the game to make too many pot shots, but I would like to see some
of the reviewiers points ironed out. I didn't try too many things, that failed, but GAIM
would not connect to MSN, SANE could not find my USB scanner {HP 3570} and
the video capture for my ATI AIW 8500DV still does not work. I hoped these would
be fixed, but wasn't expecting them to be. I also hoped that wine would have been
put back into the distribution and new that mp3 would be.
In summary I seems like Fedora is in better shape that RH 9 when it came out, and I didn't
find any nasty problems. For the most part I was impressed, and hold hope that the
Fedora community will rally around and fix most of the short falls.
My next project will be to install the RHEL WS beta I downloaded or the Evaluation,
but I expect that it will not have many of the tools I use for development and testing
and frankly I can't see many of my customers paying the price asked for these products
when they don't even come with wine for the odd program that needs it or mp3 to
soothe the operator through a long hard days work. Since you have to pay for RHEL
WS the old "cost of licencing" song just doesn't hold to many tears anymore, nor does
the song about not including wine for "licencing reasons" carry a tune. But since were
talking about Fedora I'll leave them dogs where they lay or lie whatever it is :)
Richard Horvitz wrote:
This is sad. No more Redhat Linux, outside of the enterprise version, and here is the first release of fedora getting poor reviews:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/12/2323256
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