Fedora 12

[HappinessNow]

Fedora is a great distro. I use the gnome version, and I love it. For KDE, I'd probably go with OpenSuSE for the "out of the box" distros, but fedora is still very nice.



Did it crash at the partitioning stage? I know someone else who kept having that problem. Not sure of a solution.

No it didn't crash at all, I think it may have more to do with my RAID0 or something, I just didn't feel like fiddling.

fedora 12 is pretty awesome, fast, responsive and beautiful. I would highly recommend it to anybody.

[HappinessNow]

is that the default height of the KDE panel? seems pretty sleek...

I am surprised how very similar Gnome and KDE have become, I'm not sure why they have not merged yet?

I am in Linux Mint now and find it very nice (I know, I know it is just Ubuntu)....here is are two screenshots one with a horrid default background and one with a nice black background available upon selection by default.

[Dobbie03]

I am downloading Fedora 12 GNOME to see what it is like I have used the KDE version but I have really gone off KDE in general.

[HappinessNow]

I am downloading Fedora 12 GNOME to see what it is like I have used the KDE version but I have really gone off KDE in general.

Cool idea I may do the same, not sure why I downloaded the KDE version?

[Dobbie03]

I used to really like KDE but GNOME is more me.

[HappinessNow]

I used to really like KDE but GNOME is more me.

Actually I was planning on running e17 on it. After installing MacPup Opera on my parents computer I have grown rather found of the advanced control that e17 gives a user.

I guess I am agreement with this guy:

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor Gregory R. Kriehn

As mentioned in my Background Information page, I believe that the two Windows Managers packaged with Fedora (Gnome and KDE) both have serious drawbacks to them. As a result, sometime around Fedora Core 2, I began scouring the internet for something that gave me full configuration control over the way my desktop and windows were being managed. Unfortunately, at the time that I performed my search, there was no easy solution to my problem — and with each successive release of Fedora, I was becoming increasing frustrated with both Gnome and KDE. I was familiar with Enlightenment from my RedHat days, but was not willing to grunge through the work of trying to get it to compile on my own. And all of the other Windows Managers out there seemed even worse than Gnome and KDE. As a result, for a couple of years, I continued to grit my teeth and put up with what was readily available.

After a year of almost giving up hope, I was delighted to finally find a site that allowed for a quick installation of Enlightenment via a repository (Didier Casse's site) right around the time that Fedora Core 4 came out. Enlightenment promised to give me easy configuration over everything that I wanted: basic functionality of the windows manager, general settings, key bindings, localization, fonts, installation of modules, binary formats, icon files, the menu, backgrounds and themes, file management, and overall system performance. After installing E17 for the first time, and reading through the documentation provided on get-e.org (now defunct — see exchange.enlightenment.org instead), I never looked back. And wouldn't you know it, years later I am the one who is now providing the Enlightenment RPM packages on my repository.

Integrating Enlightenment fully into Fedora still takes a bit of work, so I've gone to the trouble of writing up some web pages that discuss the E17 Installation process, Entrance Setup for F12, providing a bit of information with respect to General Configuration options, and discussing Animated Backgrounds. Hopefully they prove useful to anyone who reads them.

http://optics.csufresno.edu/~kriehn/...ghtenment.html

his e17 installation for fedora 12 is here:
http://optics.csufresno.edu/~kriehn/...tallation.html

[Dobbie03]

I'm not a fan of e17 either.

[starcannon]

downloading Fedora 12 to give it a try since I downloaded 2 other iso's (kahel & NuTyx)...Yeah I know I am a risk taker or perhaps just curious.

I guess I know what I'll be doing tonight.

Hiya "This Happiness", I would assume you'll be playing in Virtual Machine?

[HappinessNow]

I'm not a fan of e17 either.

what do you like?...anything?

Hiya "This Happiness", I would assume you'll be playing in Virtual Machine?

[~sHyLoCk~]

I haven't tried fedora 12 yet, but a friend of mine tried installing it and couldn't get past the boot menu. Tried all acpi=off,etc. and other options but still it doesn't boot. No clue why. :\ Do they release any subversions? Like Fedora 12.1 ? I don't think they do.