On Saturday 06 March 2004 16:27, Peter Onion wrote:

Are there any Fedora Core 1 or core 2 users here ?

I've put Core 1 on my little black box, and I'm downloading core 2 iso's at the moment (for a few hours more as well).

Peter

Yup me "briefly"

I dug a old Compaq presario laptop out of our scrap pile the other day, a low spec k6 450Mhz machine. It was a rainy day and I was bored so I fixed it and decided to give core 1 a go as I had some coverdisks kicking around.

I must say I was not over impressed, I don't know if I am having problems specific to this installation and in fact I was going to post some comments to the group to find out if the behaviour I have seen is common to all fedora installations.

I installed fedora with pretty much the default installation, selecting the "workstation" installation.

First off I was not too happy with the decisions the installer made for the default partitioning, it gave me a 100 MB /boot and assigned the rest of the 40GB drive to /, personally I prefer to have a separate /home and on anything other than a laptop or simple client machine I prefer to separate /var as well. I guess it's a matter of personal preference though.

ifconfig is not in the default path so if you su up to root and type ifconfig it is not found.

"Network device control" does not launch as root (requiring a root password) like the other configuration options from the "system tools" menu. This causes a couple of permissions errors as it starts and naturally means that this utility does not work out of the box.

When selecting some packages from the "add/remove applications" package manager I get a generic package installation failed, can't remember exactly which packages I was trying to add but the error didn't even tell me which package had failed and all of the current package installations were aborted. My CD's check out fine.

I don't like the default package manager at all, the grouping by catergory may be helpfull for new users, but with no search facility I found myself having to expand all groups to find the packages I needed to install, and even then there is no way to search for included utilities, I want the facility to search across all of the available packages for a particular included file or a keyword in the description, I can do this with YaST on Suse.

The suspend commands were missing from the battery applet on the desktop, so clicking on it causes an error.

Overall I find Suse a much more polished experience on my home machine, maybe it just because it's what I am used to. Anybody else care to comment....

All of the above problems were easily fixed or worked around, but if Fedora is designed to be used by newbies (which it feels like it is) then these problems would cause headaches.