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Fedora - NO NEW USERS PLEASEFedora - NO NEW USERS PLEASEPosted May 20, 2004 16:26 UTC (Thu) by ccyoung (guest, #16340)Parent article: Fedora Core 2 Review (LinuxLookup.com) Point well taken. And even worse if the user tries to really use the system and tries to rely on one of the "system tools". However, as a base for someone who (semi) knows what he's doing, I like it a lot. New users: Knoppix for experimenting, Mandrake for fun, and Suse for work.
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Debian 3.0 anyone? Posted May 20, 2004 18:54 UTC (Thu) by stuart (subscriber, #623) [Link] and Debian for the rest of us wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!Happily using Debian since 1997 and yes I find its (old) installer better than all these new graphical ones. Those of us who are happy rarely get up and make a big song and dance about it, Debian just works and thats it. 'Course most readers will think I am trolling but this is my opinion based on the evidence presented to me. Stu.
Fedora - NO NEW USERS PLEASE Posted May 20, 2004 19:44 UTC (Thu) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link] I must admit I have only given it a quick spin, but I really cannot find anything wrong with Fedora 2's system tools.As for the review: to call it that is giving it too much credit, it's more like five or six random observations. Well yes, there is a menu entry called Kopete, I can hardly deny it. How this is ogin to upset either newbies or advanced users, I really couldn't tell. Package management works okay for me, up2date had no trouble at all installing the three updates that were available. Perhaps the reviewer was installing on flaky hardware? The only remark that makes any sense is that Fedora does not include the fancy stuff people might expect from a full-blown distribution. I applaud Fedora for choosing to only include packages that match their license restrictions. If you do want Flash, Realplayer and all that, even for a newbie downloading and installing these packages is painless. Basically the conclusion is that Fedora is not at all like the reviewer's favourite distribution. Not really interesting stuff.
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