I downloaded the Fedora 11 Beta i386 DVD and verified with sha256sum — from Fedora 11 Beta, all hashes change algorithm to SHA-256.
The first problem I got is filesystem error, the solution is to use another bootable disc, Rescue Mode of Fedora 11 Beta doesn’t work. Fdisk’d partitions: /boot, /, and swap. Make first two with system id 83, ext3. Then reboot. In the installer, use custom layout, assign partition types and format swap partition. This seems to be a bug of Anaconda 11.5.0.38.
After last package installing, I got an exception and only had an option to exit installer. Luckily, it seems to continue the process without harm after rebooting. Few next button clicks, I saw the logon screen.
After logging in, kerneloops came up and the desktop is kind of weird. The GNOME panel doesn’t look normal, it must be video driver problem. I set up a DSL connection and got AVC denial, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem.
Once again, PackageKit is still annoying. First thing is to terminate it and remove it from system. Then I set up RPM Fusion repositories in order to get nVidia driver. After installing the driver and rebooting, video is now working normally. I timed the booting, it took nearly 40 seconds.
Now I can take a look of Fedora 11 Beta. The only obvious difference is the desktop background image, that’s all I can tell. Other features is listed here, Firefox 3.1 beta and Python 2.6 are only programs that I am interested.
Fedora 11 Beta didn’t surprise me, hope the official release would do.
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Your review seems a little incomplete. As far as I can tell your testing consisted of timing the system boot and glancing over the desktop. I'm not sure what your expectations were, but I think it's fairly obvious the desktop is going to be the default Gnome - Fedora Layout.
ReplyDeleteA Beta Installer has minor issues?! Shocking.
A meaningful review would have dug a little deeper into performance, ext4 observations, concluding with things that users can look forward to, and things that as yet need to be resolved before release. And maybe a general observation concerning your opinions on the direction of Fedora development...
You seemed to think I was writing a review, which was not. Fedora 11 beta is not worth writing an review for it because that would be meaningless since it can't generally install well. You can only write something called solution for it. As of my post, it's just a log about what I saw.
ReplyDeleteAbout ext4 observation, it shouldn't be in any distro reviews, that will miss a point. When you want to read an analysis about ext3/ext4 performance comparison (I assume that would be most people want to compare), the report or review shouldn't relate to a distro. It should be plainly about ext3 and ext4 themselves. All we need to know is ext4 can work-out-of-box or not in a distro review.
And the performance, well, I am not good at give a report and I don't think many others are good, either. A reliable report about performance of something is not easy to write. You can see many Windows users post many benchmarks, how many of them have clear idea in those numbers?