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Unfortunately, and this may just be me, the new Fedora was only on my NC10 for 45 minutes.
Maybe I was being unfair but I thought it was no different to Mandriva (which is my flavour of the week) or Ubuntu and in fact found it much less user friendly.
I downloaded the i686 Live CD which installed etc with no fuss.
Started tweaking things to the way I like it and when trying to setup autologin the alarm bells sounded. There is no easy way to do it. When trying it through the terminal it was a right pain in the whatsit. Seems they have support for fingerprint reader but bugger all for just us mere mortals outside the CIA!!!!! 20 second boot up? I dont think so.
Then when trying to amend the auto login again came up against the “you do not have permission”. so that was it.
The volume FN keys worked from the start but the brightness did not. Didnt try the others!
I am terrible for first impressions and want full control off the OS so am back on Mandriva. I saw no improvement in performance really. OK there was a newer version of Firefox (which showed no performance difference for browsing) but otherwise feel very disappointed.
It may be more behind the scene and it may show that Linux has got to the stage where performance is hardware dependent now as the big distro boys have all developed to the same level?
Please dont let this deter you from trying it but like I said I am a stickler for first impressions and a certain level of control over the OS.
Kevo
As I mentioned in this thread on Fedora 11 the brightness controls are lost when kernel mode setting is enabled, luckily it can be disabled easily.
To get a faster boot time you need to go into the service manager and disable the services you don’t need, for example the smtp server.
I’ve been using Fedora and Red Hat for a long time and it’s my distribution of choice, however Fedora 11 has left a bit of a bad taste. Fedora 10 seems to be the better choice for the NC10 at-least at the moment.
Fedora is not generally considered as user friendly as Ubuntu and does tend to require the use of the terminal and editing various configuration files to get certain things working. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing.
Ran Fed 10 for a few days and was ok. I suppose was expecting a bit more from a new version especially when they delayed the release. Fed 11 gave me almost the same feeling as Saboyon did…now thats a story in itself!
The delayed release was due to a bug in the installer where if you try to set the partitions up manually it can delete other partitions. That really should have been caught sooner…
Going from F10 to F11 there aren’t that many cosmetic changes (or things that are that noticeable) with the exception of working kernel mode setting for Intel graphics chipsets. It’s mostly just improvements rather than any radical changes, this seems to be true of most distributions with a fairly regular release cycle.
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