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Fedora 13

Submitted by Peter on Tue, 2010-08-24 20:59
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Fedora 13 offers a range of small steps forward from previous versions plus a lot of maintenance updates. I tried to test Fedora on one of my new computers but Fedora could no recognise the disks. Ubuntu could. Fedora missed something serious in this release.

The test computer is new and the motherboard is new but the only really new feature on the motherboard is USB 3.0. Everything else has more than six months history, more than enough for Fedora and Ubuntu to update their disk controller drivers.

Ubuntu 10.4 recognises the disks. Fedora 13 fails. End of test. Time to try a different distribution.

Spins

Fedora has several variations developed by special interest groups for specific purposes including a version for mobile devices. The versions are called spins and hosted at spins.fedoraproject.org.

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Submitted by ValPaliy on Tue, 2010-10-05 19:49

I had tested quite a few Linux distros, launching them mainly off a USB stick. Not all of them have the persistence option, some of them don't have PPPoE, and a few don't recognize the Ethernet controller on my Acer. Fedora, on the other hand, has everything other distros don't, and, to my opinion, is the fastest one on a 1,5Ghz processor, and 1GB of RAM. I didn't notice any slowing down in disk access either, despite it being Flash. One thing I should mention, however, is after you install the Adobe Flash plugin into Firefox, the browser fails to start, but I guess I can live without YouTube, as long as I can take my Linux with me anywhere I go.

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