Fedora 11, the next release of the popular Linux distribution, is now available from the Fedora website. You can find full details of the major improvements and changes in this latest release in our previous post about the launch of Fedora 11, but to mention just a few, the release claims to have major speed improvements, boasting a 20 second startup, as well as overall speed improvements as ext4 is now used as the default file-system.Another interesting feature is the ability to perform a minimal install, which amounts to about 500MB (at mount-point '/'), which should make this release more appealing to users running servers, or machines with older hardware. However, this does of course come at the cost of features.
In addition, the latest versions of GNOME and KDE are included with the respective versions. The release was delayed several times due to last minute issues, however it is now officially available. You can see the screenshot tour here, showing the installation process and the desktops for both GNOME and KDE.
The release is now available through BitTorrent and direct download, however, at the time of writing, not all mirrors had Fedora 11 to download, so you may be better off using torrents if you cannot find a mirror. Custom Fedora 11 spins are also available, including the Fedora Games Spin and Fedora Xfce spin.
For those wishing to upgrade, you must be using version 10 in order to upgrade to Fedora 11 through Yum. Users running Fedora 9 must upgrade to version 10 first, because of this. In case you aren't familiar with Fedora, it is a free, open-source Linux operating system, and the whole project is sponsored by Red Hat, a company providing enterprise Linux solutions.
Download: Download page
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Screenshot_Tour
Unfortunately I can't provide my own yet, as I will have to set it to download overnight. Once I've got them though, I'll post 'em up
The only linux which is worth news: RedHat
I haven't tried it yet, but that's very doubtful. Fedora offers a pretty user friendly installer. It's Gentoo and possibly Slackware that might be more involved.
When I was installing f10, virtual PC didn't work at all! Virtualbox ran it beautifully with no special configuration needed.
I'm sure f11 will be fine with virtualbox.
I'm sure f11 will be fine with virtualbox.
I can't get the Guest Additions to load, but the install to VB worked fine.
1. Too hard to bring it to daily usability level.
2. I primarily use it for listening to music. But I still find amarock, and its clones half baked. One player does videos/music/tagging/library management anyone ? Some might debate but none of the music players still come close to itunes or wmp or foobar.
3. Sound quality is terrible. May be i am using some crappy drivers.
4. Trivial but i hate the new wallpaper. Looks like someone splashed muddy water on their previous one. Hehe
5. I am finding it difficult to customize.
Damn is Linux still for ubber-geeks ??
yes, i though the same. I think you can disagreed with the audio but the wallpaper?. :-/
Installing now. Hopefully this works fine. Have had some trouble with linux distros om my NC20 before. Only got OpenSUSE 11 and Fedora 10 up and running earlier.
anyway, been waiting for fed11 since win7 RC was released, so I could dual-boot.
I've tried the Live CD and the Full Install DVD but both of them stop before they even get started. I went as far as to boot into gparted Live and even temp install gparted into each of the Live Fedora sessions but nothing. Total non-starter. gparted works like a dream in all of the scenarios but Fedora's partitioner fails miserably.
You know... So it might get fixed and all that.
As for the HDD layout: NTFS 20gbs, swap 3gb, ext3/4 10gb, remainder in one large NTFS partition.
As for filing a report; it seemed useless when the problem was easily found in the Fedora forums where the only solution was to use Fedora's partitioning scheme with the Live CD or use the DVD and instead do a full install. (claiming that the DVD allowed for more partitioning options but alas it only failed at the same exact point...on 3 similarly partitioned HDDs in 3 different machines)
It's always odd to me when I'm playing with Linux and something stops me from doing things my way. Whether that's locking me into software sources or out of codecs or stopping me from setting up my HDD in the way that I see fit.
The more distros I try the more I find that are closer to the very closed Apple model of removing options and claiming it as increased security.
Good luck at getting it fixed. I chased my tail around with 3 different machines trying to get Fedora 11 to start an install from either the Live CD or DVD but my new distro lust went away about 1-2 hours in.
It will get the "one hour test". If I find myself getting ****ed at the computer after an hour because I have to keep opening the command line to get something done or have to search endless pages on Google trying to figure out how to make something work, it is obviously NOT for me.
Basically, how I see it: If everything "just works" for a user with Windows or even Mac OS X, then why would someone want to switch to this and put up with all the headache?
I forced myself to try Fedora for a month, and like you, was sick of command prompts all the time. However, although I had to use it to compile PHP, I have to say I used it very few times, and now, 2 months on, I haven't used it for weeks.
I only use it on my laptop, but it's so much faster than XP was on it, plus it's free.
I forced myself to try Fedora for a month, and like you, was sick of command prompts all the time. However, although I had to use it to compile PHP, I have to say I used it very few times, and now, 2 months on, I haven't used it for weeks.
I only use it on my laptop, but it's so much faster than XP was on it, plus it's free.
A colleague mine installed Ubuntu in their new notebook and everything worked fine without needing of access the shell.
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