Comments on: Fedora 11: Leonidas Roars for Attention

By: himadrichanda

himadrichanda — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:45:43 +0000

My opinion is that Ubuntu 9.04 is better than Fedora 11. Fedora 11 is still having installation
and rebooting problem. Multimedia support is also not favorable. Debian based Ubuntu 8.04 or
9.04 gave me best result for Linux operating system either duel booting or single booting.
Internet/multimedia installations are user friendly and fast.

By: himadrichanda

himadrichanda — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:15:43 +0000

By: Sanjay Pandey

Sanjay Pandey — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:20:10 +0000

I would rate fedora 11 as 1/5 on experience.

I use a dell d610 laptop with 2 gb of ram.

Installation and everything took a long time. I installed it on a 20 GB partition and gave a swap of 4096 MB (double of my ram).

When I started it after installation, it was too slow. The experience was worse than I have on windows. I use linux because of its speed and it failed on that count.

Installation time is acceptable as that is one-off job. Slow running is not acceptable.

Hence the rating of 1/5.

By: Kim Garren

Kim Garren — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:18:27 +0000

One thing you failed to mention, that I found highly disappointing, is not only does the Fedora 11 installer default to ext4 for the file system, but there is no option anywhere for ReiserFS – anywhere in the installer. My old /home is on ReiserFS, the one I was trying to mount in the installation, and it wouldn't even mount.
I had installed over Mandriva Cooker, just formatting / (root), and it decided to create its own /home. I tried to mount the /home I had at the time; all choices were grayed out to do so. : So, not being able at this time to back up /home so I could choose another file system, I had to bow out of the installation.
I guess I can try Fedora 10, where there is ReiserFS support, and then upgrade to Fedora 11, but I'm not so sure even that would work. :(

By: kamal

kamal — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:32:30 +0000

Installed today, nothing great.
Kubuntu works better!!!!!!!

By: mvssarma

mvssarma — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:39:39 +0000

after completing installation, it wanted to reboot. while re booting, it took a path to another hard disk where FC9 was present.
the other disk was not in master, in the boot sequence.
and even if i removed the old disk, the FC11 did neither finish its jobs after first installation like setting peripherals , nor it allowed me a way to select the WinXP ( property of GRUB). after boot sequence, it used to show up a blinking horizontal cursor at the top left.

i had to reach my PC support person who managed to enter some boot correction and restored my PC. while there they also tried to install the FC11 but same observation.

Regards
Sarma

By: Linux For You

Linux For You — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:47:50 +0000

"Flawed [your] winXP" as in? Do you mean it erased you XP partition or didn't list it in Grub?

The distro supplied by LFY is a the same ISO available in fedoraproject.org w/ zero modifications. :-)

By: mvssarma

mvssarma — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:39:39 +0000

By: Linux For You

Linux For You — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:47:50 +0000

"Flawed [your] winXP" as in? Do you mean it erased you XP partition or didn't list it in Grub?

The distro supplied by LFY is a the same ISO available in fedoraproject.org w/ zero modifications. :-)

By: mvssarma

mvssarma — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:06:00 +0000

Fedora core11 appeared utter disappointment for me. five times, it flawed my winxp in a dual boot installation. EarlierI could install FC9 much easily and there were no issues. finally i had to go to the PC repair shop to get my winXP restored.

I fear whether there were some issues with the distro supplied by LFY and whether they would chack it up and plan to supply a replacement instead.

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By: Atanu Datta

Atanu Datta — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:34:15 +0000

I guess I goofed up while delving over an apt headline. Anyway, have corrected the codename in the this version, but letting the headline be.

By: sankarshan

sankarshan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:47:56 +0000

It should be Leonidas – that's the release name.

- sankarshan at fedoraproject dot org

By: Shashpant

Shashpant — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:52:52 +0000

Looks nice.. I won't be reading it now :P Will read it from the magazine itself.

I heard Leonidas was another failure .. I would give it a try just for Plymouth, though I am sure it won't as ATI open source driver has just merged KMS in kernel 2.6.31 which is not likely to be included in F11..

Judging by the rating it ok .. Nothing fancy to be used.. the only led down is the repositories, even with rpmfusion I don't find as many software as Mandriva, Ubuntu and Arch Linux.