CGBS Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 http://fedoraproject.org/ Download: http://fedoraproject...-fedora-options Release notes: http://docs.fedorapr...otes/index.html --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted November 8, 2011 Subscriber² Share Posted November 8, 2011 I'm downloading it as we speak and am going to install it as dual-boot option on my laptop. I will post my impressions of Fedora 16 once it's up and running. Charisma 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 Thanks to the opening poster and Mephistopheles. Test away, bro'. Downloading/sharing as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iuerg87yerg879e0rg9erugjer Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 what kernel is fedora using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ir0nw0lf Subscriber² Posted November 8, 2011 Subscriber² Share Posted November 8, 2011 I always have a hard time finding this, but: any links to some CD/DVD covers, Lightscribe images, etc.? I want to offer a nice present to my Linux sysadmin LOL. EDIT: Found it, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/MediaArt/F16 (the Lightscribe images are very very impressive this time around!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted November 8, 2011 Subscriber² Share Posted November 8, 2011 First snag: The installer crashes whenever I try to shrink the NTFS volume. Going to free some space from within Win7, then try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted November 8, 2011 Subscriber² Share Posted November 8, 2011 what kernel is fedora using? Linux 3.1.0. In the meantime I had to defrag the Windows drive to be able to free a sufficient amount of space. Next attempt to install F16 starting shortly. For what it's worth: The live CD recognised the hardware of my ThinkPad OOTB. Accelerated GUI, Wi-Fi - it all worked right away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 I'm downloading it as we speak and am going to install it as dual-boot option on my laptop. I will post my impressions of Fedora 16 once it's up and running. I'm downloading it as we speak and am going to install it as dual-boot option on my laptop. I will post my impressions of Fedora 16 once it's up and running. mind to share your notebook hardware specs? u installing x64 or x86? i had fedora 15 running once but just couldnt get to deal with it, as ubuntu is/feels so much simpler. can you also say something about performance? (starting apps, boot-time) danke! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted November 8, 2011 Subscriber² Share Posted November 8, 2011 Laptop specs: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 with Core2Duo T7100 (1.8 GHz), 2 GB RAM, Intel graphics. I installed the x86_64 version of the distribution. Performance is snappy - the system boots quickly (I didn't time it, but I'd say it boots as fast as Windows 7). Sound, Wi-Fi and GPU acceleration worked out of the box. So far I haven't installed much - gnome-tweak-tool to have advanced config options for the GNOME Shell, Flash Player 11 (from adobe.com) and of course the available updates. 121 updates for the default install if you have fedora-updates and fedora-updates-testing enabled. Tweaked desktop: I enabled desktop icons (hey, I'm old-fashioned like that) and set the font sizes from 11pt to 9pt. Other than that the desktop is in the default configuration. Empty desktop: So far so good. GNOME 3.2 isn't as horrible as 3.0 anymore, especially after tweaking it. It's (imho) better than Ubuntu Unity - which isn't saying much, granted. I shall use this for a while and post more experiences over the next days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin McGregor Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 normally i dont run these bloated noob distros (Gentoos been my one and only) but i havent played with linux since win7. Maybe ill give this a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 Me wants wallpaper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted November 8, 2011 Subscriber² Share Posted November 8, 2011 Me wants wallpaper Here you go. (Widescreen version) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGBS Posted November 8, 2011 Author Share Posted November 8, 2011 Laptop specs: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 with Core2Duo T7100 (1.8 GHz), 2 GB RAM, Intel graphics. I installed the x86_64 version of the distribution. Performance is snappy - the system boots quickly (I didn't time it, but I'd say it boots as fast as Windows 7). Sound, Wi-Fi and GPU acceleration worked out of the box. So far so good. GNOME 3.2 isn't as horrible as 3.0 anymore, especially after tweaking it. It's (imho) better than Ubuntu Unity - which isn't saying much, granted. I shall use this for a while and post more experiences over the next days. My laptop has similar specs; good to hear that performance is pretty good. I'm hoping to get a chance to install F16 in the next couple of days. --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 Here you go. (Widescreen version) Thank you sir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 so far i like it. deffo faster than ubuntu 11.10. gonna play arround with it a bit longer and see if i can get set up everything the way i want .. and if so i think i might keep it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted November 12, 2011 Supervisor Share Posted November 12, 2011 haven't really messed with fedora since 15 came out, will check this out a little later, hopefully the ati drivers finally work with Gnome 3.x so I can actually use my hdmi port with fedora Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavo Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 There is a nice setup in the fallback mode. There are notification icons, for network, volume, etc. There were some bugs with the panel in the older versions, but this theme looks nice. I really like that wallpaper too, using on all of my desktops now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 haven't really messed with fedora since 15 came out, will check this out a little later, hopefully the ati drivers finally work with Gnome 3.x so I can actually use my hdmi port with fedora deffo worth a try id say. i also, like you, tried fedora at v15 last time, and it was total.... disaster!!! installation failed the first 2 times with some copying errors (dunno) and then when i had it running it felt uncompleted and no gain over ubuntu. v16 is MUCH better i can tell you this. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AltecXP Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 I'll have to give this a try on my Dell D620. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted November 13, 2011 Member Share Posted November 13, 2011 I've been using the KDE edition since the day it was released and I am very pleased with it. I found Kubuntu lacking. Fedora KDE is snappy and has been nearly perfect. Install was easy and everything just worked. I've burned the Gnome edition to a CD and played with the LiveCd a few times but I just couldn't bring myself to install it. I need my task bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieAnon Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 Im really getting bored of Ubuntu... anyone suggest which one is better between openSUSE and Fedora? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 Fedora Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farchord Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Fedora Agreed. I did a preupgrade to 16 from 15, took like 30mins.... Once I rebooted, I would get the quirky Gnome 3 "went nuts" error (System could not recover, contact an Administrator).... I CTRL+F2'd, and ran a yum update, fixed the problem.... was a tad odd tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pers3us Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Yep out of Suse and Fedora, Fedora is better. But I still prefer Arch or Debian over both of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 I just installed it; feels good man. Some unneeded packages were removed, and I'm now optimizing the artwork: sudo find / -name '*.png' 2>/dev/null | sudo xargs optipng -o7 -preserve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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