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[KoRn]

Wow I'm still using 4! I've been fearful of upgrading to 5 not wanting to break very important apps. Now 6 is out lol.

[softwarecreator]

Okay, so what's new with Fedora 6?

Have you tried it?  Can you recommend it ... disavow it?  Is there a reason to upgrade for those that have Fed 5?  You usually evaluate these things pretty well, what's your opinion on this?

[ShadowAce]

I DL'ed it this afternoon. I'm burning it to DVD as we type.

[ShadowAce]

OK, I downloaded, burned the DVD, and installed FC6 on my laptop that runs Fedora Core 5 perfectly.

I didn't get very far. For some reason (I haven't done a lot of research into this yet), kernel 2.6.18 (FC6 kernel) doesn't work on my system. The standard kernel has some kind of conflict with my onboard Intel '97 audio, so I don't get any sound, while the smp version of the kernel doesn't start up X at all.

For a more thorough look at FC6, check out this Linux Format article.

[Clinging Bitterly]

I know this thread is old but are you using Fedora on a daily basis? How is it working out?

I picked up a retired PC from work and am going to set it up as a common storage area for the home network, plus an internet station for guests who come around and put trash on my wife's laptop (I won't let anybody use mine).

I installed the old Mandrake 8.0 I had laying around from years back when I was experimenting with it (never did get it stable on the old K6-2 I threw together for it but it seems to be okay on the Dell P3 I scored from work), but it does not have support for the Wi-Fi card I want to use (or any Wi-Fi card for that matter).

So I thought why not modernize and I am downloading the torrent now (that is another thing I had never tried). It looks like it will be about a ten hour download on my DSL connection.

Can you put me on the open source ping list?

Dave in Eugene