domino Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Weee! Time for some testing and hoping there aren't too much bloat. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraMain Features of Fedora Core 5: - There is a completely revamped appearance with a bubbly new theme and the first use of the new Fedora logo. - Early work from the Fedora Rendering Project is integrated into the desktop. This new project (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject) is going to provide the technical foundations for advanced desktop interfaces based on OpenGL. - Popular desktop environments GNOME and KDE have innovative new versions included in this release. The GNOME desktop is based on the 2.14 release (http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/), and the KDE 3.5 desktop is the general 3.5 release (http://kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.php). - The latest versions of GNOME Power Manager (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-power-manager/) and GNOME Screensaver(http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver/) provide new and integrated power management capabilities. - The new GNOME User Share facility provides simple and efficient file sharing. - Suspend to RAM support has also been improved due to infrastructure work done by the hibernate support. - The previous graphical software management utilities have been replaced with the first versions of a new generation of tools. This release includes Pup, a simple interface for system updates, and Pirut, a new package manager that replaces system-config-packages. These build on the yum utility, to provide consistent software installation and update facilities throughout the system. - This release of Fedora includes Mono support for the first time, and Mono applications such as Beagle, a desktop search interface; F-Spot, a photo management utility; and Tomboy, a note-taking application. - You can now enjoy enhanced multimedia support with version 0.10 of the Gstreamer media framework. This milestone release brings major improvements in robustness, compatibility, and features, over previous versions of Gstreamer. The Totem movie player and other media software in this release have been updated to use the new framework. - There is dramatically improved internationalization support with SCIM in Fedora Core 5. The SCIM language input framework provides an easy to use interface for inputting many different non-English languages. SCIM replaces the IIIMF system used in previous Fedora releases. - The default Web browser is Firefox 1.5 (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.html), which has many new features for faster, safer, and more efficient browsing. - The office applications suite OpenOffice.org 2.0 (http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html) now makes better use of general system libraries for increased performance and efficiency. - A large number of GTK and GNOME programs take advantage of the Cairo 2D graphics library (http://cairographics.org/), included in this release, to provide streamlined attractive graphical interfaces. - There are new experimental drivers that provide support for the widely-used Broadcom 43xx wireless chipsets (http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/). - This release includes libnotify, a library that features simple and attractive notifications for the desktop. - Fedora Core 5 now uses gnome-mount, a more efficient mechanism that replaces fstab-sync, and uses HAL to handle mounting. - Printing support is improved in this release with the inclusion of the hplip utility, which replaces hpijs. Happy installing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gooly Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Nice. But SUSE is EAL 4+. Fedora ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJägermeister Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 a small bug: FC5 only accept GPL drivers so you can't install a closed source graphic driver , it's only fixed with the first update. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test...h/msg00999.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted March 22, 2006 Author Share Posted March 22, 2006 Nice. But SUSE is EAL 4+. Fedora ? I'm not even quite sure if RHEL 5 is EAL 4. There was talk about granting RHEL 5 EAL 4 around the last part of last year. Anyway, I've never really gotten a grasp of EAL 4 standards and it's wide range of requirements. A pit bull is still a mean sob whether or not it has papers . However it would be nice if a bunch of "specialists" say yes, your OS are now certified. Ss long as you don't install other services on your brand spanking new EAL 4 certified OS you should be fine and completely safe from security threats? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 My USB SoundSticks don't work in Fedora Core 5 but worked just fine in FC4. Any ideas ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted March 22, 2006 Author Share Posted March 22, 2006 snackole, try disabling SELinux. Also I don't know if FC5 repo's are available now. I'm having a hell-of-a hard time downloading packages through PUP, or yum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xequence Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Fedora Core 4 (when I tried it) seemed nice and polished (awesome default look and icons) but I just despised yum. It was so horrible, I got really bad speeds, like 10KBps when apt on ubuntu gave me 300KBps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrrjrr Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 domino, A lot of the random mirror sites are hopeless. I've edited my /etc/yum.repos.d stuff to go only to the Redhat servers: [fedora-updates] name=Fedora Updates @ download.fedora.redhat.com baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/i386/ [fedora-base] name=Fedora Base @ download.fedora.redhat.com baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/ [fedora-extras] name=Fedora Extras @ download.fedora.redhat.com baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/ Or set them for any particular mirror that is fast for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 I finally got the updated package. Only like 6mb and 13 packages I think. I usually set my repos from Japan or Au. My backup is Belgium which usually give great bw. I'm not too concerned about the updates now since it's very new. I'm busy as a bee setting up a websever on it. The desktop install was like 15 minutes minus Oo. I'm beginning to love Fedora again. It's still a bit overweight for a desktop OS and you really have to know what to install and uninstall without breaking deps. I uninstalled cups and lost half of the default installed apps include nautilus. LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Fedora Core 5 already! I'm still using Red Hat 9. I guess it's time for an update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Pup does seem very slow but the Fedora and Livna repos seem to be fine using yum. Yum is a very good package manager it checks for all dependencies and works great as long as they are provided by your selected repos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 Fedora Core 5 already! I'm still using Red Hat 9. I guess it's time for an update. Not so fast there holst. Make sure you can compile your current applications and services on FC5 kernel. I have to compile pine and apt to get anything done. I guess i'm too lazy to remember vi and I prefer apt over yum . I hate waiting for the perfect repos to pop up. That's what I get for playing around with the latest distro. I also read over at the fedora fora that a new kernel is available in order to get some nVidia cards working properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 If you prefer apt over yum you should stick with Debian or Ubuntu, I think I like it more to. Also, The Synaptic Package Manager is very nice. I'm looking forward to the official release of Ubuntu 6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 If you prefer apt over yum you should stick with Debian or Ubuntu, I think I like it more to. Also, The Synaptic Package Manager is very nice. I'm looking forward to the official release of Ubuntu 6. Why when I can compile apt for FC5? And there is already an apt package for FC4 and RHEL5. I agree though. Synaptec is nice and so are the Ubuntu Repos. However, I will not be using Ubuntu or Debi for a live hosting server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Not to get off topic, but I tried to install Ubuntu Breezy Badger on my iMac G5 and it keeps freezing at the Ubuntu login screen. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 Yea, you should have started a new thread. What happens in thelogin process is that it starts services like alsa, directory, the desktop inteface, and so forth. Another thing that might cause your problem is tweaking the system. Are you sure the USB mouse or kb aren't cause the problem? If this isn't a fresh install, you might have installed some service causing it to lock. There are countless threads over at the ubuntu site that tells you how to edit services from the terminal. Hmm, I just posted a not very helpful post. But no one can really tell you what to do unless you know what was done before the problem started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gooly Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 I'm not even quite sure if RHEL 5 is EAL 4. There was talk about granting RHEL 5 EAL 4 around the last part of last year. Anyway, I've never really gotten a grasp of EAL 4 standards and it's wide range of requirements. A pit bull is still a mean sob whether or not it has papers . However it would be nice if a bunch of "specialists" say yes, your OS are now certified. Ss long as you don't install other services on your brand spanking new EAL 4 certified OS you should be fine and completely safe from security threats? Hmm., But I think SUSE YAST is better . I have some of the services running on my sLES 9. Userfriendly than Redhat EL 4. Supports all hardwares. While we understand the difference, we love suse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 I like the new look and logo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullMetal Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 I haven't used Fedora in a while. How much have things changed from Fedora 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted March 25, 2006 Author Share Posted March 25, 2006 FM, it's more geared for desktop OS. For example the new Gnome features and much more than I care to post. The changes from FC2 is FC3 and FC4 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullMetal Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 Thanks Domino! I think i'll Download Fedora Core 5 and give it a try! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pu7o Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 ...I have to compile pine... If you're compiling pine just for pico, you might as well use nano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted March 26, 2006 Author Share Posted March 26, 2006 If you're compiling pine just for pico, you might as well use nano Creatures of habit never change I've been using Pine since FC2 and I do not plan on going over to vi or nano. Anyway, someone posted a great thread over at the fedora board on a few repos that are for FC5. That includes Pine and quite a few other apps I need and gotten used to over the years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pu7o Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 Except that nano is supposed to be a clone of pico; it looks, works, and smells exactly the same way. Try doing alias pico=nano and see for yourself that you won't even notice the difference besides it saying "GNU nano" instead of "UW PICO" on top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted March 27, 2006 Author Share Posted March 27, 2006 Yea I know Pu7o, it comes default with FCx. Just like yum is to RH, I use apt. Just a preference than enything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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