I just started learning python and FC3 came out. I don’t know if it’s a good idea or not, but Fedora uses python for many of the admin tools so I thought maybe I’d learn something about fedora and python at the same time.
I have been running FC3 for, well not even 24hours, so to tell the truth there aren’t any real important bits of info in here, well maybe one.
Redhat gui’s, no matter which de or wm, have always felt slower than some of the competing distros on a comparable piece of hardware. However I’ll give credit where it’s due, the applications, although seemingly slower, tended to crash less frequently than some of the comparable ‘fast’ distro’s.
I’d like to comment, that this certainly does not seem to be the case, with the FC3 release. Even gnome feels reasonably snappy, which in and of itself must have been a herculean task. Apparently FC3 has been optimized a little bit. (For the source geeks: - O2 -g -pipe -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=pentium4 according to this post)
Normally I try and refrain from the following, but since it may be important to a few prospective FC3 testers, I’m using FC3 on an MSI KT4AV motherboard with an Athlon Thoroughbred 2600 cpu, as well as a 5200 series nvidia card in combination with the nv driver.
One other noteworthy mention, I am doing this in the log but not enforce selinux security policy. Yeah, FC3 is tuned for pentium processors, but it does seem to run fairly fast on my Athlon.
I have noticed that gnome-terminal is now usable with midnight commander. Huzza! Oh and earlier today they pushed firefox 1.0 through yum.
Have fun,
Doug
After having used fc3 the shiny newness has worn to semi-lustre. I’m discovering I know _less_ now than I did the moment previous to slapping the FC3 dvd into the drive tray.
Prelinking, at times, seems to be more bother than it’s worth, (here’s a tip prelinking windows dlls may cause headaches).
Acl’s , lvm and selinux has pretty much went by without me. And then yet another implementation of /dev. Ton’s of broken packages (some of this is getting alleviated by updates) as well as weird messages (See this post) that are on my pretty framebuffer console.
Ahh gnome, what can I say, I try really hard to like you, but I end up in a terminal to do basic file management needs. I never even noticed UTF-8 bugs in SuSE 9.1 (not saying they aren’t there) but I think I’ve witnessed a few in fc3.
– original contribution by Doug Skranak http://mail.linuxbasics.org/pipermail/qna/2004-November/000327.html and http://mail.linuxbasics.org/pipermail/qna/2004-December/000452.html
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