Fedora!

[dedanna1029]

W00t!
I knew it was coming, but couldn't remember when. Time to format that secondary hdd and go for it. I'm hoping they straightened out the bug in the kernel, and it can actually install (unlike F12) on this machine.

Thanks to Dave Jones' blog (Dave Jones works for Red Hat/Fedora) for talking about it; I hadn't seen it talked about or reported anywhere else. I had to do some real digging about the issue with F12 (you can ask majorlinux about that one; he was helping me grasp at straws with it).

Dave even gets cluster headaches like I do, or so it seems; he still has to get it confirmed. It's just the way the doctors are leaning. Cluster headaches are a real bitch, so I feel for him big time (as he should me; but wait, he doesn't know I get them too, so I forgive him lol).

His blog is great; he writes so just about anyone can understand what's going on, even those not Linux-literate, so check it out (sorry, awilliamson, I like his blog better)!

[b1o]

i tried fedora 10 a while back, or at least i think it was 10. had some problem with the sound and vlc wouldn't play videos smoothely but if you want a distro without multimedia i guess it worked fine for its use, i got it working in other players and older versions of vlc but installing older software to get music to play seems futile to me.
And getting the other players to work would require a lot of codec downloads which is stupid when vlc includes allmost every codec there is, except for Real Media files which i have no use for anyway. Also imho the distro was bloated with a lot of software i didn't realy need.

hugz

[majorlinux]

This is a great site to go to get any Fedora distro up and running in no time!

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f12.html

[b1o]

well, it's good that someone makes such guides, but it seems it wants to use pulse instead of alsa. had problems with pulse-audio before it made some programs crash, and me and my friends have this saying if your program crashes/freezes/doesn't do what it's supposed to do a killall pulse-audio, and the weird thing is... it works every time.

[majorlinux]

Do you have any other guides to suggest? I'm all for trying different methods. The one above was the only one I know about.

[b1o]

not realy, i made it work eventualy myself, but then i went over to try suse(which i am also done with)

[majorlinux]

What are you using now?

[dedanna1029]

majorlinux, Fedora people do a real bang-up job on their site in the wiki. Check that out, okay?

And, I'll be installing it maybe this coming weekend... not sure. Depends on how bad I want Arch back at that time. hdd died on me this last weekend, so had to pull a switcheroo.

[majorlinux]

Will do. Just let me know.

[b1o]

What are you using now?

well at the moment i use ubuntu server on my server and ubuntu desktop with my desktop together with windows(have to use it with school and for gaming)
seems to work best with my rig and the others allways have problems with my soundcard, dunno why but it was like that with my last soundcard too, guess gaming gear is not realy supported

[majorlinux]

It seems that way. Ubuntu is the end-all solution to anything Linux nowadays...lol

[b1o]

well yeah, it's set up quite good. i would like to set up a gentoo built from scratch for my computer, but that would crash with my studies, and it's allready enough to learn in this wonderfull world of information technology