Welcome to the Linux User’s Show!
Welcome to my shiny new blog on The Podcast Network. I’m working hard to produce the first Linux User’s show which will be online this coming Sunday (June 5th).
In preparation for hosting the show I upgraded my Dell Inspiron 1000 from Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 3. FC3 isn’t all that new really, I was just hesitant to do the upgrade because my wlan card isn’t supported by Fedora. I managed to get it working in FC2, but remembered it being a total beast.
As it turns out, I managed to get my card up and running with little difficulty (I give it a 2.5 tricky penguin rating) which leads me to believe that the problems I have with FC2 were more related to my inexperience with Linux than any real problem with inserting the correct modules, etc.
On that note, FC3 installed like a dream (2 tricky penguin rating, but most of that is due to the iso burning process). It was the most Windows-like install I’ve seen yet on a distro (although I’ve been told that Suse is quite slick as well) and had none of the problems FC2 had. My laptop didn’t like the video handlers on FC2 and I had to do a text install because the default refresh rates weren’t compatible with my screen and caused the thing to flicker horribly during the install. To this day I’ve had to run vesa drivers with FC2 on my laptop which were OK but far from ideal. Not so with FC3. I just popped the disk in and off it went. I’m running at 1024×768 for the first time since I switched to Linux and it was totally painless.
I see that FC4 ‘test’ is out now as well!
Edit: Now that I’ve played with FC3 for a while, I notice that there are some intermittent sound problems with the distro. I thought it was just me, but a quick Google search shows that this is a rather widespread problem. Before installing FC3, please be aware that you may experience soundcard related problems.