[olug] Fedora 10?

[Jay Woods]

I tried the 9 series as they came out. By the time of the 9 release, the live 
KDE CD would boot. But kdevelop is necessary for my computer usage and it 
wasn't out along with many other packages for my standard systems. The 10 
beta 2 wasn't far enough along. I downloaded 10 PR last night and will be 
testing it today. 

The first test machine is my linux video conferencing machine (waterie) which 
works fine with Mandriva One 2009. It fails to display the graphic login 
screen although it shuts down gracefully. 

My second machine is my media center machine (woolerie-test) which has not 
worked well with any linux distribution because it has an Nvidia card, not 
even openSUSE which is supposed to work with Nvidia. The login screen is 
sliced and diced. It didn't work with 10 PR either.

I have my main machine for web watching and text storage to test next. I'll 
tell you later how it worked out after I get this reply off the screen.

On Friday 07 November 2008 07:25:53 pm Obi-Wan wrote:
> I finally got the new battery for my "new" used laptop (Dell XPS m1210,
> core duo CPU).  It came with WinXP installed, but I'm going to put
> Linux on it (not sure yet whether to keep a small XP partition to dual
> boot, or just go all Linux).  This will replace my POS Mac iBook.
>
> Anyway, I've been using Ubuntu on a number of desktop machines for
> a while, and I like it, but I thought I may try something new on
> the laptop just for variety.  I'm thinking about Fedora.
>
> I know we've got a couple big Fedora users on this list.  Any reason
> I shouldn't run Fedora on this?  I tried the v9 live CD, and other
> than some issues when resuming from a "suspend," it all worked well
> enough.  When I went to download it tonight, I noticed that v10 is
> due out in a couple weeks.  Should I install the "stable" v9 now?
> Should I wait for v10 and hope I don't get burned as an early adopter?
> Should I grab the v10 beta and live on the edge?
>
> This laptop won't be my primary computer; I mainly use it as just an
> email/web appliance from the living room.  It needs to work well,
> though.  I'm not in the mood to do lots of troubleshooting.  Any
> recommendations?