Re: [LUAU] My experience with using Fedora Core 6 on a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 19:43 -1000, Peter Besenbruch wrote: The link doesn't work. Try this one instead: http://julianyap.com/wiki/Fedora_Core_6_%22Zod%22_on_a_Dell_Inspiron_6000_notebook I went to the site and did a search for Fedora. I got a laptop from rCubed with Fedora 5 installed. All buttons work, and so does hibernation. Networking is nicely automated. I understand they did a lot of kernel patching to get things to work. Using a standard Fedora kernel breaks a lot of stuff. Does using the standard kernel break stuff? Or do things (such as wireless cards) not work it because it doesn't include non-free or binary only drivers? My other machines, including laptops use Kanotix. Debian's apt is so much faster than Yum, it isn't funny. Yum in FC6 is noticeably faster. For FC =5 Yum was totally written in Python, so for FC6, some functions were re-written in C. Yum at times can give the impression that it's slower as it randomly picks an official mirror to download from. Sometimes you get a slow mirror... But you can change that for instance by installing 'yum-fastestmirror'. Mostly Yum and Apt give the same result. They just have different approaches... So I doubt Yum will reach the 'speed' of Apt because of how Yum and RPM headers are implemented. The biggest issue I've heard about Apt is that it can't handle multi-architecture packages as well as Yum but I'm not too sure: http://lwn.net/Articles/190671/ ~ Julian ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
[LUAU] My experience with using Fedora Core 6 on a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook
Hi all, A quick search found few notebook write ups about FC6 so I though I'd post my review. Link: http://julianyap.com/wiki/Fedora_Core_6_Zod_on_a_Dell_Inspiron_6000_notebook Overall I am more that satisfied with Fedora Core 6 on my notebook. Previously I ran and used (not just installed for the fun of it) FC5, Ubuntu 6.06 and 5.10. FC6 is rock solid and the AIGLX/Compiz integration is awesome. Ubuntu always felt more flaky on my notebook. ~ Julian PS. PFOSSCON 2007 is coming... ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [LUAU] My experience with using Fedora Core 6 on a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook
Julian Yap wrote: Hi all, A quick search found few notebook write ups about FC6 so I though I'd post my review. Link: http://julianyap.com/wiki/Fedora_Core_6_Zod_on_a_Dell_Inspiron_6000_notebook The link doesn't work. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [LUAU] My experience with using Fedora Core 6 on a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 17:49 -1000, Peter Besenbruch wrote: Julian Yap wrote: Hi all, A quick search found few notebook write ups about FC6 so I though I'd post my review. Link: http://julianyap.com/wiki/Fedora_Core_6_Zod_on_a_Dell_Inspiron_6000_notebook The link doesn't work. Try this on instead: http://julianyap.com/wiki/Fedora_Core_6_%22Zod% 22_on_a_Dell_Inspiron_6000_notebook ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [LUAU] My experience with using Fedora Core 6 on a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 18:01 -1000, Julian Yap wrote: On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 17:49 -1000, Peter Besenbruch wrote: Julian Yap wrote: Hi all, A quick search found few notebook write ups about FC6 so I though I'd post my review. Link: http://julianyap.com/wiki/Fedora_Core_6_Zod_on_a_Dell_Inspiron_6000_notebook The link doesn't work. Try this one instead: http://julianyap.com/wiki/Fedora_Core_6_%22Zod%22_on_a_Dell_Inspiron_6000_notebook ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [LUAU] My experience with using Fedora Core 6 on a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook
Julian Yap wrote: Hi all, A quick search found few notebook write ups about FC6 so I though I'd post my review. Link: http://julianyap.com/wiki/Fedora_Core_6_Zod_on_a_Dell_Inspiron_6000_notebook Overall I am more that satisfied with Fedora Core 6 on my notebook. Previously I ran and used (not just installed for the fun of it) FC5, Ubuntu 6.06 and 5.10. FC6 is rock solid and the AIGLX/Compiz integration is awesome. Ubuntu always felt more flaky on my notebook. ~ Julian PS. PFOSSCON 2007 is coming... ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau FC6 works very nicely, one of the main reasons is that it is the only major distro that uses the 2.6.18 kernel. In fact it is the only distro that works well with nVidia's newest nforce 570/590 chipsets if you have a Windows/Linux dual boot (or for my case, Windows/Linux/Solaris triple-boot) system. SuSE 10.2 final is coming out anytime now. Many will find it more polished than FC6. ( in a few months FC7 will be even better than SuSE 10.2, and so far so forth . . .) For whatever reasons, FC6 installation does not include kernel headers. A quick dirty yum install will install the wrong kernel headers. Do a uname -r before you manually install the headers from a Fedora Core ftp. Then the config.h header file is deprecated. If your work depends on VMWare, make sure you do a thorough googling b/f deciding whether to do the upgrade. But overall, Fedora Core 6 is a very polished distro; it is fast, and is highly recommended. Ubuntu always makes a very appealing initial impression, but, as I mentioned previously, it requires a lot of customizations. For sophisticated home users who have a large size LCD/plasma HDTV, the most interesting distro is probably KnoppMyth-based Debian. Wayne ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [LUAU] My experience with using Fedora Core 6 on a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook
The link doesn't work. Try this one instead: http://julianyap.com/wiki/Fedora_Core_6_%22Zod%22_on_a_Dell_Inspiron_6000_notebook I went to the site and did a search for Fedora. I got a laptop from rCubed with Fedora 5 installed. All buttons work, and so does hibernation. Networking is nicely automated. I understand they did a lot of kernel patching to get things to work. Using a standard Fedora kernel breaks a lot of stuff. My other machines, including laptops use Kanotix. Debian's apt is so much faster than Yum, it isn't funny. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
