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Fedora

Fedora is the new community supported version of Red Hat Linux, providing newer packages and better hardware support than previous Red Hat releases. It uses updated tools like up2date and yum for remote package updates. While it offers improved driver support and a more up-to-date system, the installation process takes longer and performance may be poorer on older hardware due to its resource usage. It also has changes like using NPTL that complicate upgrades from previous Red Hat systems.

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Fedora

Fedora is the new community supported version of Red Hat Linux, providing newer packages and better hardware support than previous Red Hat releases. It uses updated tools like up2date and yum for remote package updates. While it offers improved driver support and a more up-to-date system, the installation process takes longer and performance may be poorer on older hardware due to its resource usage. It also has changes like using NPTL that complicate upgrades from previous Red Hat systems.

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Fedora Linux

Fedora: the new Linux distribution on the block. To


switch or not to switch? Moreover, why use it at all?
And, what is its target? Desktop users? Servers?
Fedora to the max.
What is Fedora?
●
Fedora was a project that has existed for the last few
years, they made add-on packages for Red Hat,
including newer versions of packages.
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Now Red Hat has stopped making their distribution
after Redhat 9, and the Fedora Core is now going to
be the new, community supported Red Hat.
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The Rawhide tree (development tree of Red Hat)
has been merged into the new Fedora Core
What does this mean for Redhat users?
●
No more commercial releases, or commercial
support, unless you get a support contract
●
Commercial software that used to support redhat
officially may not anymore. (eg MATLAB, Maple,
others)
●
Fedora will be providing updates via up2date, yum,
and all the other methods, but security updates
probably won't be done on older Redhat releases
anymore.
What has Changed?
●
Newer Packages – Keeps more up to date than
Redhat
– Kernel 2.4.22
– Mozilla 1.4.1
– Openoffice 1.1.0
What has changed, continued
●
Driver support for all sorts of devices, with very
good autodetection
– Will detect most recent video cards, and use appropriate
(DRI enabled!) drivers.
– Good laptop support, APM, correctly detects LCD
screens, PCMCIA devices.
– Autodetects USB printers! Automatically will set up all
sorts of weird printers and things.
– Anaconda and Kudzu handle plug and play hardware
detection.
– Automatic soundcard detection even picks up strange
laptop soundcards.
Features useful to sysadmins
●
Kickstart files allow you to deploy a similar redhat
installation remotely and en masse. Kickstart will
automatically partition, install, and optionally run
whatever post-install software you want
●
up2date and yum allow you to have the distribution
updated automatically and remotely.
Other neat things
●
Neat graphical wireless and wired network config
utility, easily lets you set up your wireless
connections
●
Simple to set up graphics settings, huge database of
monitor profiles and video cards, simple checkbox
for Xinerama support.
●
Service manager clears you of the headache of
managing sysvinit type runlevel symlinking
●
BIND is chrooted out of the box
●
Graphical bootup screen
Disadvantages
●
Installs take a long-ish time. ~50 minutes on
Pentium 4
●
Installer does not like a disklabel which doesn't
have an Extended partition. It will create one
whether you like it or not
●
Emacs was installed though I told it not to.. strange
dependency tracking
●
System is really geared to newer P3 or higher
machines, performance will be poor on slower
machines / machines with small hard drives, install
uses 2GB+
More totally weird things
●
The system is built with NPTL (native posix threads
library) which makes upgrading from previous
redhats a pain. NPTL
●
Prelink is run in cron.daily, automatically re-
prelinking everything.
●
XMMS with no MP3 support, due to licensing
issues
●
GCC 3.3.2 is the default compiler, but they include
gcc 3.2.3 as /usr/bin/gcc32 for kernel compile

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