A review of Fedora 16 ‘Verne’ dedicated to Dennis Ritchie. Overall, a well-performing and technically capable distribution, scalable for the enterprise, and essentially aimed at Linux enthusiasts. Not really recommended for the average desktop user, unless you know what you want and how to get it. Check out my latest podcast with tostoday: www.youtube.com
Fedora 16 is my everyday Linux distro .. o.wo
And I haven’t had any instability issues yet!
@devinbritt72 Install windows first but when you partition the hard drive leave a empty/free partition for your Fedora installation. Install Fedora into the empty/free partition that you created during your windows install. Fedora will create a boot manager called GRUB. GRUB will create a menu for you to select either windows or fedora at start up. =) you are welcome.
@devinbritt72 I don’t know about Fedora but I’m dual booting mint 12 with windows 7. It’s installed like any other program on the C drive in windows 7. I extracted the files from the ISO image and clicked on the .exe launcher, selected the C drive and the partition size, and the installation started. that’s all.
Seriously, they need to update that GUI, it looks ancient. Other than that, I would try-out the OS.
@arvindemey Although it isn’t recommended by the Fedora Devs, you can find out how to upgrade using yum here: h t t p : / / fedoraproject . org / wiki / Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum
@arvindemey Honestly not worth it. Not recommended by the Fedora Project. Back up and clean install. Its probably good practice to do on roughly the same time schedule as the release cycle anyway if you wanna stay up to date. Google “Upgrade Fedora using yum”, and it will direct you to the page.
@arvindemey I’ve never used it, but my guess would be with preupgrade-cli.
how to upgrade f15 to 16 with terminal?
I’ve always used fedora, and I still do. Dual Booting Fedora 16 with Windows.
Can you teach me how to dual-boot windows 7 and fedora 16?
@InfinitelyGalactic what do you think is the best distro is?
I’ve been using fedora since fedora 8. Currently I am at fedora 15 and I think it’s great. I did replace gnome with xmonad because I dislike gnome. Upgrading between new releases goes smooth with pre-upgrade. A lot of people say fedora is not that stable. I haven’t had any problems that I couldn’t solve. My only problem with fedora is that they sometimes release a new kernel before there are proprietary driver packages available for that kernel, that is why I’m using the nouveau drivers now..
This is a great review. Fedora isn’t for the everyday average user, Fedora is for the more advanced users. They give you a fairly stock system and you have to build fedora to what you want it to be. Think of it like this, Fedora gives you a lump of clay and you must mould that clay into what you want. Other distros mould the clay for you then give it to you. If you are not someone who likes to get hands on and dig around their OS then fedroa is not for you.
crappy distro
crappy distro…
Used fedora since F9 … and i have to tell you … its very slow here … dont know why … all other linux distros works just fine and smooth … that one didnt work for me at all … very slow distribution …. but the actual system disregarding the performance issue is a dream … i liked it very much and i hope i could use it … but again very slow for me and my tasks
thanx
(using debian ‘stable’ now and loving every moment of it )
I’m sorry the crash under Fedora 16 is believe to be caused by Realtek wireless driver in the kernel.
I would use Fedora 16. I had it running and it felt fantastic on my Thinkpad, but it would randomly freeze every couple hours. I’ve read some people had the same problem. Seems to be a problem with ATI/AMD chipset, although I don’t install the closed-source drivers.
I installed it on my pc two times, full install, and was quite sad about it because I loved the way it looked and feel, but at some point, usually after restart done because of the first update the system just wouldn’t boot on my laptop (thinkpad x100e). That was such a turn off that, despite the fact that I even tried a second time, I always ended up looking for another options and didn’t quite had the patience to go look for fixes on forums or whatever…
is there a software center like in ubuntu ?
what kind of packages does this distro uses ?
Thanks !
Good review.
you should block the trollers that give you a thumbs down.
This is indeed a good review.
Hey there IG, hope you are fine. This review you did was a bit in hurry berry, No problem it should be short and punchy I think. I have been following your reviews for a long time now. This video came just in time when I was downloading the .iso. The one thing i would search in google after I download a Distro is the availability of documentation other then official docs. Fedora stands apart in that matter. It has some excellent support out there in the web. Thanks again IG. God Bless.
Started using Fedora 9 after trying Ubuntu and ever since then I’m a Fedora fan. I liked the Fedora community and organization behind it. I also became a translator for my language. As for the testbed issue, it’s true. fedora is a testbed for RHEL but since nobody is forcing you to upgrade to latest version you can safely stick with one until it EOF and then switch to newer. By that time initial bugs will be solved unless the problem is upstream.
@andamat that’s great. I’ll try to re-install it, I’ve been so sad about that.. hate installing php/mysql and all that stuff on my own.. thanks dude:))