Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)...NOT a review ! [LWN.net]

Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)...NOT a review !

Posted Nov 10, 2006 18:22 UTC (Fri) by jmmc (guest, #34939)
Parent article: Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)

I wish LWN had put this under 'Opinion'...this is not a review.

I get a bit in and see this...

"The installation procedure is inferior to every other desktop GNU/Linux distribution I've used. Partitions can't be resized, the default partitioning scheme is a terrible mess involving logical volumes and groups and such, the boot loader configurator doesn't recognize other operating systems on the same computer, and trying to add extra software repositories results in an unrecoverable crash. Adding software repos after installation must be done from the command line."

This is ridiculous - I'm in (shock and) awe ;)
What is "...install inferior to every other..." nonsense ? As far as I could tell - it was the same basic anaconda format I've seen since RH7 (but I use text install for FC mostly, as I've had better luck with it, and I'm a longtime Slack guy - text install gives me the 'warm fuzzies', I guess ;). About partitioning, I was actually GLAD when I did the install, accepted the default disk configuration, and saw LVM configured by default (woohoo !). If JEM understood a _single thing_ about LVM, you'd know you DO want it, not this so called 'terrible mess' (what the ?) he mentions. I love Slackware (the only other distro I use), but try upfront LVM configuration on SW - sure, doable, but a bit more to handle. GRUB had no trouble seeing my Slack install on sda1 and worked smoothly. And how in the Creator's name did you manage to paint using the command line in such a negative light (the way you positioned it in this paragraph just seethed of negativity) ?. No !...command line, now that's a 'good thing' (right, Martha ?) ! I considered that a PLUS, Jem.

I've never seen FC as anything closely competitive to Ubuntu (or Suse, etc.). The missions are entirely different.

Jem, just say what worked for you, and what didn't, what you found useful and what you did not find useful - that would actually HELP people. Everything you painted in a negative light I actually found the opposite to be true (for me), which is why I say your review is more _opinion_ than real, technical observation/analysis.

But most importantly, THANK YOU Dave Jones, and the crew at RH - and thanks always for keeping FC 'unencumbered' (perhaps FCs BEST feature ;)

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