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Fedora user reviews (25) | Add your review |
| Version: Fedora 14 | Reviewer: Rajarshi De Biswas
Date: 17 Apr 2011, 20:10 GMT Overall rating:      | GUI:     Features:     Ease of use:     Value:     

Fedora... the party pack from Red-Hat’s desk is now celebrating its 14th triumph over the world of Linux based OS’s, the FC14, codenamed Laughlin… is no doubt a step ahead of the other parallel distros- with its great stability, ease of use and excellent memory management.. The live version is a nice solution for today's students' economic headaches-- the net-tops. Yup, trying the x64 to a core2duo desktop, and the X86 to an Atom powered Lilliput, i must agree that there is some magic in r-h's coding....
Few ‘NEW’-s in Laughlin:
> Bundled with Linux kernel release 2.6.35/36.
> Updated Boost to the upstream 1.44 release
> Addition of the D compiler (LDC) and D standard runtime library (Tango)
> Concurrent release of Fedora 14 on the Amazon EC2 cloud
> Updated Fedora's Eclipse stack to Helios releases
> Updated Erlang to the upstream R14 release
> Replacement of libjpeg with libjpeg-turbo
> Inclusion of virt-v2v tool
> Inclusion of Spice framework for VDI deployment
> Updates to Rakudo Star implementation of Perl 6
> NetBeans IDE updated to the 6.9 release
> Inclusion of ipmiutil system management tool
> Inclusion of a tech preview of the GNOME Shell environment
The excellent driver sustenance, especially for a lot of non-generic pci/pci-e devices, is what I call ‘FRESH’ for it, but still no firmware for Broadcom cards… long live the ndiswrapper.
Compiz is partially bundled, without config editor, but however, can be easily fixed with yum install.
Another headache is that the synaptic installer is missing, the GUI for yum bundled instead, is not so well equipped, no in-built software list, and you must type the full (and correct :-p) software name to find it... on the other hand, yum is fortified with the delta (presto) plugin, so, once you know the name, it seems easier to get it done faster by yum’s CUI....
Have tried the ‘Electronics Lab’, ‘Sugar-on-a-Stick’, ‘KDE’ and ‘Gnome’ spins…. Too good to evaluate…
Good hardware support, good support to third party repositories, and also good (:-p) maneuverability with proprietary drivers (how the world would be without ndiswrapper or fwcutter!!!!!!).
Anyways, as an old admirer of fedora, i must have to rate it 9.5 out of 10. :) |
| Version: Fedora 10 / 11 Alpha | Reviewer: Ab
Date: 06 Feb 2009, 05:33 GMT Overall rating:      | GUI:     Features:     Ease of use:     Value:     

What you need to know about Fedora/other linux distributions:
Fedora 11 will come with “automatic installation of multimedia codecs” according to the Alpha release. Being able to install this from repositories makes fedora my favorite distribution and I can finally recommend it to new linux users. I probably tried more than 30 different and most popular operating systems including windows {3.1 to vista, mac, ubuntu, opensuse, fedora, debian, opensolaris …)
pros: best looking os, powerful and allows you to customize, updated every six months to most current technologies, now allows multimedia istallation
Cons: sometimes introduces kernels that are not ready (not as stable as debian,centos or even ubuntu) |
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