Thread: Fedora 8

installation:

booted off the CD to do a real install and it went smoother this time. fedora 8 is not as polished as ubuntu or opensuse, for example, the bootup/shotdown screens goes into text mode for a while.

starting the installation, providing the info and doing partitioning was easy. when the install started there was an error dialog that appeared 3-4 times about HAL failing to mount a partition or something, but the install continued.

the first reboot and you have some additional info to setup, like networking, root password, user account etc.

logged in for the first time, well its gnome and looks similar to ubuntu. there are a bunch of additional menu items like authentication options, selinux security etc which is good for office setups i guess. there is no openoffice instead there is abiword which support openoffice odf and microsoft formats and it loads faster, and gnumeric as the spreadsheet app. there is the "transmission" torrent client which is a bit better than ubuntu's default barebones client.

like i said the polish is not as good as ubuntu or opensuse, for example, the update notifier asks for root password before it even displays the info for available updates. and it doesnt tell you the file download sizes just the names and number of updates available.

the desktop effects menu item is one generation behind ubuntu and is the same as feisty's, i wasnt able to enable desktop effects because i didnt have nvidia driver installed.

so im downloading drivers directly off nvidia.com to try to see if desktop effects will work with fedora8/gnome

so in conclusion, in my opinion fedora 8 is not too bad for casual home users (ubuntu is better) and not too good either for power users (opensuse is better) who want GUI config control, its probably a good fit for corporate/office installs where you want gnome and selinux.

Its just FC8T3 people! So stop criticizing it so much!

right, its just "test 3' (beta version 7.92) but note that its no longer called "fedora core" just "fedora" so thats "F8T3" max. plus, the fedora "salesman" rahul sundaram pointed out that they've enabled debugging build/options to help them diagnose bugs/crashes which might explain why i was having trouble running it under vmware...

but i still feel fedora is better suited for office installations more than for home use. for home users my top choice is ubuntu for gnome followed by opensuse for kde.

no longer test3, Fedora 8 (final) will be released some time this evening around 8 or 9pm!

Releases/8/ReleaseSummary - Fedora Project Wiki

prelaunch email i received:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg00003.html

i believe it should and does work although i've never tried it myself, dont know how anyways... maybe you just mount your home partition and then create the users again?

Finished downloading , will install it during the weekend. I have fedora 7 now. Is it advisable to upgrade ? or a fresh install?? I m kinda confused . .

i've generally heard its better to backup files then do a fresh install...although the upgrade process might have been improved... i would do a fresh one personally

@axel, that looks more like a configuration guide than an installation guide