Tag: fedora

Spent some time this morning poking around inside the Fedora box I built on Friday. Overall, I’d say it’s pretty similar to RedHat 9. Some of the software is newer (GCC 3.3.2, Perl 5.8.1 were the first ones I found). Apache and MySQL were a version behind, but since those just came out a couple of weeks ago, not unexpected.

Haven’t really pushed it too hard yet, although since it’s on an old 400 MHz PII, I can only push it so hard. It runs pretty well on the old box I stuffed it into. Web pages were served up pretty quickly. OpenOffice apps took a while to load, but ran fine. Seems stable enough. Now to read through some of the Fedora mailing list archives to see what interesting things people are discussing.

With Redhat’s recent decision to end support for Red Hat Linux in favour of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, I’ve decided to give the new Red Hat sponsored Fedora Project a try.

A few people around here have installed it already, and gave it favourable reviews. I’ve found a machine to install it on (might need to cannibalize a few other machines to get enough HD space and RAM), and am in the middle of downloading the 3 ISOs to burn onto CD. Now all I need is to find a place to put the computer I’m going to install on.

This should be an interesting adventure.