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| Thread ID: 100520 | 2009-06-11 04:02:00 | Fedora 11 - Thoughts? | Erayd (23) | PC World Chat |
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| 781333 | 2009-06-21 10:32:00 | Well I installed the 64-bit version (full DVD) of Fedora 11 on my lappy yesterday. I've jumped F10 completely as my desktop still runs F9, complete with a busted KDE. I was expecting problems because a) it is bleeding edge and b) there are more than a few unhappy campers on the Fedora forum complaining about F11. I did the usual custom selection of packages (I prefer KDE) and custom partitioning with no problems. My WiFi worked out of the box. :thumbs: KDE looks nice, still not too fond of the Windows-like program menu. The appearance is very customisable and sooo easy to install new colour schemes and icons etc. The default KDE Fedora 11 desktop has come a long way from the butt-ugly excuse of a desktop *someone* thought looked OK. :rolleyes: There is no ATi driver available yet - no surprises there. Adding the finishes touches to the install has been made very easy with autoten (www.dnmouse.org) application - just tick what you want and it does the hard work for you. :D Still not a distro for newbies though IMHO. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 781334 | 2009-06-21 12:18:00 | Well I installed the 64-bit version (full DVD) of Fedora 11 on my lappy yesterday. I've jumped F10 completely as my desktop still runs F9, complete with a busted KDE. I was expecting problems because a) it is bleeding edge and b) there are more than a few unhappy campers on the Fedora forum complaining about F11. I did the usual custom selection of packages (I prefer KDE) and custom partitioning with no problems. My WiFi worked out of the box. :thumbs:Yay! KDE looks nice, still not too fond of the Windows-like program menu...I agree, it's horrible. Ditch it. Then use the lancelot launcher - it's a plasmoid one included with KDE-4.2, and in my opinion it's a hell of a lot better than the default one. The appearance is very customisable and sooo easy to install new colour schemes and icons etc. The default KDE Fedora 11 desktop has come a long way from the butt-ugly excuse of a desktop *someone* thought looked OK. :rolleyes::banana There is no ATi driver available yet - no surprises there.You should be able to grab the binary ones for your card, but you're right - they suck. Pity it's a laptop and you can't just swap out the video card... Adding the finishes touches to the install has been made very easy with autoten (www.dnmouse.org) application - just tick what you want and it does the hard work for you. :DI have a healthy suspicion of those 'make it easy' automation scripts - I've seen far too many of them leave untracked junk all over previously tidy systems. They work, but they leave a hell of a mess. Unless this one does the sane thing and installs untracked files to /opt? Still not a distro for newbies though IMHO.:D |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 781335 | 2009-06-21 19:35:00 | I agree, it's horrible. Ditch it. Then use the lancelot launcher - it's a plasmoid one included with KDE-4.2, and in my opinion it's a hell of a lot better than the default one.I will take a look at that. :) I have a healthy suspicion of those 'make it easy' automation scripts - I've seen far too many of them leave untracked junk all over previously tidy systems. They work, but they leave a hell of a mess. Unless this one does the sane thing and installs untracked files to /opt?This script was written by a moderator/community manager from the Fedora forum, so they know what they are doing. You could watch it running in a terminal console and it used yum to go fetch all the selected files and dependencies required from the standard and non-free repositories, and then install them. All files were marked for future updating by yum. Looks nice and tidy to me. It certainly saves time doing each one manually. :thumbs: |
Jen (38) | ||
| 781336 | 2009-06-22 04:50:00 | You can also just right click on kickoff and change it back to the old style menu. | ad_267 (6193) | ||
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