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A New Fedora!

Posted by Ryan on May 20, 2009 in Linux

Alright, I’m making a move to Fedora.. and leonidas comes out soon. Check out some of the new features. I myself will be trying out the 20 second boot.  I’ll report back 13 days from now!

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Ok Fedora 11 has been great.  I’m currently using it for my work laptop and it has been an good overall experience.  Here’s a few highlights:

• My USB to Serial works again!  In the CentOS 5.3 kernel my Keyspan USB to Serial adapter was a paperweight however with the Fedora 11 kernel, it works wonderfully.  I’ve used minicom during several server builds.
• NetworkManager/wireless works right out of the box.
• All the software was near the latest, so it wasn’t necessary to have to upgrade.
• Its Pretty!

Here are the issues I’ve stumbled on so far, all of which by the way are not a fedora problem.  Only one so far..

• Vmware Workstation 6.5 has some compiling issues, mostly due to the new-ness of the kernel.  So, I’ve moved to VirtualBox instead and it seems to fill the void nicely.  I’m running Solaris 10 and Windows XP.