Fedora 10, a real treat
Installed Fedora 10 a couple of days ago and I must say I’m very pleasantly surprised. Install went smoothly as ever and getting everything up and running was pretty much painless. Here’s pretty much what I needed to do to get it working on my HP nw9440 laptop:
- Installed from the DVD install media
- Setup RPMFusion – rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
- Installed nvidia drivers,yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
- Installed a few of my favorites, gnome-do, mplayer, networkmanager-vpnc, rdesktop, gnucash
A nice surprise was that rhythmbox now automaticly invites me to download and install the needed rpms for mp3 playback and others, finally!
Also, suspend and hibernate now works perfectly.
NetworkManager now works out of the box with my iwl3945 wifi card.
OpenOffice.org 3.0, now opens evil Microsoft Office 2007 files.
Conclusion, haven’t stumbled across a single annoying thing so I’m extremely happy with the quality of this release!
Tags: fedora, open source