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Fedora 12 in Distributions / General Votes: 13

Submitted by Firewing1 on 2006-06-13
Update by ozar on 2009-11-17

Fedora is a set of projects, sponsored by Red Hat and guided by the Fedora Project Board. These projects are developed by a large community of people who strive to provide and maintain the very best in free, open source software and standards.

Fedora, the central Fedora project, is an operating system and platform, based on Linux, that is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute, now and forever.

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http://fedora.redhat.com

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http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora

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cutting-edge, stable, fedora, redhat

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Submitted by Merlin Whitewolf on 2006-07-08 for Version 5
	Fedora is the best distro with which to get started learning Linux, I believe. It won't baby you by being 100% point and click; neither will it overwhelm you by being too much geared to the expert. Anyone determined to learn how to use a Linux OS who starts out with this distro will find a stable OS that can be learned without fear. Fedora's support from the Fedora community and documentation provide a followable guide for studying and learning. Anything you need to learn will have documentation or a place in the forums, either here at linux forums or at the Fedora forums, where you can seek for answers.

Submitted by owa on 2006-12-17 for Version 6
	I first began this adventure into Linux with RedHat 9, and have since tried several distributions. The Anaconda installer, used by Fedora Core, is by far, in my opinion, the most comprehensive and fool-proof installer I've seen. It has always correctly identified and configured all of my hardware and peripherals, making the installation process almost painless. If I were to search for a complaint, it would be that by default, sound is switched off, yet it finds the sound card and prompts you to play a test sound. Since the sound is switched off, ofcourse you don't hear anything. If you answer 'No', when prompted 'Did You Hear the Test Sound?', the sound card might be disabled, requiring you to find and reinstall the sound card after the install completes. I just lie to it and say 'Yes', when prompted, and turn on the sound after the install completes. As for Fedora Core 6, the desktop icons and system tray icons have, to me, a soft and pleasant look to them. The DNA theme to the Fedora Core 6 seems appropriate, as Fedora, and all the Linux distributions, for that matter, are an evolution from the original Unix platform. Whether this was their thinking when choosing this theme, it just seems appropriate to me. I found it easiest to just install the basic Desktop plus Extras, and use yum to install the rest of the stuff I wanted. Although yum is the preffered package manager for Fedora, I still prefer Apt/Synaptic. Core 6 includes apt and synaptic in extras, to my surprise, and so I did $su password #yum update -y Then, when that finished, I did #yum install apt synaptic -y And, finished installing the rest of the stuff I like with Synaptic. Call me a heretic, but I still prefer the Mozilla Suite for my browser and email. So, I had to direct apt-get to install it from a Core 5 repository. I found it curious that I was informed by apt-get that it had to uninstall Firefox to complete the installation of Mozilla. It really pissed me off when I finished installing the rest of my prefferred stuff, and ran #yum update -y again, and it arbitrarily dumped my fresh installation of Mozilla Suite, and reinstalled Firefox!! Don't begin to assume to tell me what I can and cannot run on my own damn computer!! So I reinstalled Mozilla Suite, and future updates are done using #yum update --exclude firefox -y and that leaves my Mozilla intact. I still have some MS Windows applications which I still use, namely Quicken and TaxCut, which I have had success with running on wine. So I installed wine, and then installed Quicken. But, when I tried to install TaxCut, I discovered a problem with wine. After closing an application run with wine, although it appears to have closed, a look through the running processes with system monitor shows that Quicken, or whatever, and wineconsole are still running. Even if you kill them, you can't start any other wine session or application unless you reboot the machine. I sit on where this pains me! I submitted this as a bug, but bugzilla declared it an invalid bug. Well, valid or invalid, I still have this problem when I try to use wine. So, until there is a resolution to that, I have gone back to Fedora Core 5, which works well, with no glitches that I've seen yet. owa

Submitted by hemanta on 2006-12-23 for Version 6
	excellent

Submitted by schwert on 2007-01-25 for Version 6
	yum is pretty confusing for beginners but fedora is a very stable distro

Submitted by stephen84s on 2007-09-05 for Version 7
	I started my Linux adventure with Mandriva, then after I got a good grasp of how things run in the Linux world, I jumped to Fedora and never looked back

Submitted by madboyx on 2008-01-18 for Version 8
	This is the best linux distribution i hv seen. it include everything like for programming , games ,etc but it has not any sound codec install in it.

Submitted by vigol on 2008-07-02 for Version 9
	Many Bug and Then Bug reports. Very bad Software Manager. If you don't want to use openJDK(IcedTea Project) and Eclipse, it's better to install openSUSE 11

Submitted by Rim_Frost on 2009-02-01 for Version 10
	The best distro that is. Has always been one of my favorite distros. Stable and easy to use.

Submitted by freitsma on 2009-11-20 for Version 12
	Have followed Fedora 8 thru 12 over the last 7 months. Fedora 11 & 12 were by far the best distros; in particular the addition of the KDE interface has made this a winner amongst other distros. Installed these versions on a netbook and a desktop. (Intel based processors). Keep up the good work!!!

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