Fedora 16 Review - Linux Distro Reviews

A review of Fedora 16 'Verne' dedicated to Dennis Ritchie. Overall, a well-performing and technically capable distribution, scalable for the enterprise, and essentially aimed at Linux enthusiasts. Not really recommended for the average desktop user, unless you know what you want and how to get it.

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[71GA]

Which is the default font ??? In fedora 15 it was very ugly font...

[InfinitelyGalactic]

@71GA Yup, it's the Gnome 3 default font Canterall (or something like that) with no font-smoothing. Result = ugly!

[TableWolfMusic]

@InfinitelyGalactic Another cool review, all said in the correct helpful order :)

3:00 Question: If they have stripped out the Hardware Abstraction Layer, then how good is the automatic driver support in this distro? Ubuntu follows on from the Knoppix flavour of Debian by instantly recognising hardware such as TV cards & PCI(or PCI-E) RAID controllers.

For a Red Hat server, the latter would be important. So...

Restricted NVidia drivers aside, does this Distro work out of the box with hardware?

[InfinitelyGalactic]

@TableWolfMusic Great question, sorry I think I was a bit misleading in the way I explained on the vid. Fedora have =replaced= the old HAL (standing for Hardware Abstraction Layer) with systemd which is much faster and better integrated with the kernel. All of my hardware was detected and worked fine, but I don't have a very elaborate setup. If an open-source driver for 'x piece of hardware', Fedora will be the first to ship it in most cases. Hope that helps.

[91jmda]

I was using the live usb, and it kept complaining that my disk had many bad sectors and the pop ups kept going and going and going... same thing happened with Sabayon -.-; Ubuntu says the disk is fine so idk - .-;

[InfinitelyGalactic]

@91jmda I've heard that the Linux Action Show guys over at Jupiter Broadcasting had this exact issue with Fedora 15, so maybe it's a reoccurring bug? I'm not sure, I've never experienced it. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

[xXxStellaAquaticaXx]

Fedora 16 is my everyday Linux distro .. o.wo

And I haven't had any instability issues yet!

[dmn1n]

you should block the trollers that give you a thumbs down.

This is indeed a good review.

[Daverix]

I'm using Fedora 16 right now. Though it gets a lot unstable on my laptop so I'm thinking of install archlinux on instead.

[UnforgivableMen]

@xXxStellaAquaticaXx Me ,personally I think Fedora 16 would be awesome system if it wasn't for one thing. It's just pretty slow.. Even with the proprietary graphic drivers and all. I switched from Mint 11 thinking that it was time to move on and I couldn't be more wrong.. For example booting time on Fedora 16 takes 1:24 sec, Mint 11 takes 25 sec..And in general everything just runs a lot FASTER. So in summary I'm not impressed with Fedora and back to Mint 11

[Feliexxxxxxxx]

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[LittleAiysha]

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[harrykri]

I am in Fedora 16 and installed cinnamon interface, it looks wonderful. My family is used to Windows interface so cinnamon is doing magic and same look-like interface like WINDOWS.

[jak1515jk]

ok... when theres a new fedora does it upday to the newest upgrade or do you have to re-download the new fedora?



[dmasterpeace]

Used a number of distros over the years and most recently used Mint for about 3 or 4 years but have come back to the Red Hat community by way of Fedora 16. Called by many an experimental and cutting edge distro I find it rock solid stable, fast and robust. Loving it.

[mythreligion]

@InfinitelyGalactic what are the pros and cons of Fedora 16? and how would you compere it with other main linux distros?

[blazarify]

is fedora really fast with 2gb ram?

[hartviglarsenDK]

I've had both Ubuntu (what a fail) and Mint.. Mint was really nice, but Fedora 16 is a beast! So much better than every OS out there.