[olug] Fedora 10?

[Jay Woods]

On Saturday 08 November 2008 02:42:16 am Jay Woods wrote:
> 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.
>
The main machine (wyerie) booted up fine. It works as a netbook level of 
machine. The software that comes with the live CD running doesn't include a 
add/delete software package that I can find. That is the next hurdle. 
Ordinarily, the software must be installed to the machine and the automatic 
update needs to kick in before I can work on that problem. That step requires 
more faith in F10 than I have for this machine. Which means onto my fourth 
machine which is designated to gather that kind of faith.

Right at the moment my fourth machine (winerie) is divided into three parts 
and it is not likely that it will be reassembled and hooked to the net this 
weekend (as there are reported problems with the network cable going to that 
machine). 

> 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?
>
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