Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)

Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)

Posted Nov 8, 2006 21:11 UTC (Wed) by wolfi (guest, #41576)
In reply to: Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review) by horen
Parent article: Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)

I too used RH since ages, and currently run a mix of FC4/FC5.
FC4 and FC5 is no masterpiece in innovation, but it WORKS FINE.
(stable and there are enough repos to get whatever you want)

But FC6 - is an exception - in a negative sense.

Installing within a vmware first:
(trying to use all the features - I would use on a physical machine)
-XFS-installs go through the installer - then don't boot. :-(

Then trying to install it on a REAL-HW (Dell-D620) just failed:
(note that this machine works fine with FC5 so far)

a.) the Xserver won't start up (for known reasons - but FC5 worked well)

b.) the install crashes/hangs at random points. - NEVER finishes.
(squashfs corruption - but media-test IS fine/passes)

...at this point - I gave up (waste of time) - and will stay w. FC5.

And now reading the review and some forums - I'm not alone.

So regardless whether it's free or not:

It simply doesn't install on MY hw, which runs happily FC5.

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