thoughts on FC4

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bmdean

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So, might be installing fedora core 4 tomorrow or tuesday. just wondering what everybody thinks about it.

Brandon
 
been using fc4 since test3, overall not bad. just be prepared for some headaches. since fedora is a testbed for RHEL there are always things pushed out ahead of other distros. this time around gcc4 is causing some issues. older apps wont always comple right and the repos havnet got "all" the expected apps up and running completely stable.

no major issues yet, but i wouldnt use it for anything more than to mess around or general desktop use. not good for a production environment.
 
just downloaded it on my old pc Pentium III 866MHz and it bogs it down some kinda bad. PCLinuxOS like someone said above me runs great and I'm going to reinstall that(Wish it had Gnome though I can download it) Anyway fedora core 4 doesn't seem to live up to the hype its given. This is my first fedora install and its my last for a while. Not bashing it. Its a good distro but it feels to generic to me.
 
FC4 bogging?? hmm ran it on a PIII@450, 147mb ram and a Dual PIII@800, 256mb ram...never bogged on me, and I use the Gimp all the time at my full screen resolution of 1600x1200, with XMMS, a Mozilla running...
 
We run FC4 at work. It does the job (for the most part). We have about 1,200 Linux boxes at work...We do updates through yum and RPM, LDAP-based authentication and other corporate-type song-and-dance routines to make our lives better.

FC4 wouldn't be my choice if I was able to choose the distribution. I'd pick Debian. If I didn't have to stick with Linux, I'd pick FreeBSD. However, for what we're handed it does all right.
 
[H]EMI_426 said:
FC4 wouldn't be my choice if I was able to choose the distribution. I'd pick Debian. If I didn't have to stick with Linux, I'd pick FreeBSD. However, for what we're handed it does all right.
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I'd second your words exactly. If you're going to use Linux, I'd recommend Debian over FC4 in a heartbeat, even for someone who doesn't necessarily know Linux (I went from no-Linux knowledge, but a strong BSD background, to up and running with Debian with minimal trouble). I tried FC4 first, but the packages system in FC4 frustrated the hell out of me.
 
UMCPWintermute said:
I'd second your words exactly. If you're going to use Linux, I'd recommend Debian over FC4 in a heartbeat, even for someone who doesn't necessarily know Linux (I went from no-Linux knowledge, but a strong BSD background, to up and running with Debian with minimal trouble). I tried FC4 first, but the packages system in FC4 frustrated the hell out of me.
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Yeah...RPM isn't a very good package-manager in its own right as far as resolving deps and such. You need something like yum, redcarpet or up2date to have a "full" package-management system. Debian's equivalents (dpkg and apt) tend to be much less confusing out of the box, in my experience.
 
I loaded FC4 and found it very nice and simple to work with. I did not have a lof of problems however I did not get a lot of the machine. I just wanted Firefox, Limewire, Java, Apache, & FTP.

I would recommend if you're going to install Linux, try Debian (Testing).
 
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