(pain of getting working due to lack of "wizard" to guide people around https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems IMHO; probably everything else would have been taken care of by using http://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/ instead of the generic f13 release) http://www.pro-linux.de/artikel/2/1195/1,vorwort.html (google-translated) ..................................... Distribution tests Fedora 13 Fedora 13 on 25 Published in May 2010 and is waiting with updated desktop and a host of new features on. This article highlights a picture of the distribution, focusing on the changes to give. By Hans-Joachim Baader Fedora 13 "Goddard" was published on 25 May 2010, six months after 12 Fedora The publication has been modified once again postponed by a week to eliminate short-term problems discovered. Before I start with my small report, be noted that this is not a test of the Hardwarekompatiblilität. It is well known that Linux supports more hardware than any other operating system, and the vast majority of the standard package. A test is so unnecessary, especially since in most cases anyway, no such hardware would be available. Since a trial is therefore unnecessary to real hardware will be used for the article, two identical virtual machines, 64 bit, with KVM with 512 MB RAM. The report is not a distribution test. It depends of course on how to define a distribution test, and who wants to see the report as a distribution test can do that. The article will focus, however, entirely on what's new in version 13 and responsive to individual software packages only when there are potential differences from other distributions. Most of the software is the most equal distributions, often exactly the same version, so this must not be further mentioned. Installation Media Fedora can be installed different kinds of, example of a live system to the ISO image is available as a. A direct start an installation system with a DVD or the equivalent set of CDs possible. Also an installation from a minimal image »boot.iso" that most of the needed packages from one server downloads will be offered. A slightly larger, but still greatly reduced ISO image is "netinst.iso." Plus, you can with a single command (livecd-iso-to-disk on Linux, liveusb-creator software) a bootable USB stick with Fedora produce under. This is described in the installation guide. A new option is the small ISO image from boot.fedoraproject.org. It can be started locally and then contacted the Fedora server to the kernel and the installation image to get from there. This you then have the choice between different versions of Fedora. In my test it worked fine. One must, however, no HTTP proxy have defined, otherwise boot loader can, although the boot menu server download from the remains when downloading the kernel hang but (this problem should not occur when a real computer with a direct web-access installed). Fedora 13 DVDs are available for x86 and x86_64 architectures as well as live CDs with KDE and GNOME available for x86 and x86_64. In the live CDs Software is the limited extent of course, what reason is that there are several variants, including one with KDE, one with GNOME, one with LXDE and one with Xfce (probably first presented prominently) as the desktop. More software you can from the DVD or, alternatively, a set of six CDs to install. The DVD also offers an escape system and a text mode installation. The PowerPC (PPC) architecture for Fedora is now only secondary. There is no boot media anymore, but a special interest group wants to further nursing care for this variant. ................................ [... 5 pages skipped ...] http://www.pro-linux.de/artikel/2/1195/6,vorwort.html (google translated) .................................. Conclusion Fedora 13 contains no drastic changes from the predecessor, but still a great improvement and offers little cause for complaint. My biggest criticism is the drastic increase in memory requirement for installation. There are other shortcomings that fail but compared to what is offered rather low. However, these defects may well constitute barriers to entry, with the other distributions have easy access. It is probably most observers agree. Fedora offers much to those who are willing to acquire at least basic knowledge of the internals of Linux. For users that the internals do not care if the software only works just as it ought to offer more to other distributions. Overall, disappointing is the KDE integration. Firstly, the package management KpackageKit a suggestion which currently has no place in any distribution somewhat. Second, the re-installation of the multimedia functions cumbersome and still requires further work to the KDE media player Dragon Player and Kaffeine to make usable. Once KDE crashed during playback from the media completely. A comparison with the recently released Ubuntu 10:04 LTS offers the same software versions on almost due. Both systems have very different orientations. Fedora is even more than Ubuntu on the latest technologies, which are often more driven by Red Hat. Also, Ubuntu is driving developments, but given the small number of employees in perhaps only one tenth of this size and very much on the desktop and the Cloud - concentrated with just that polishing of the features that Fedora is missing. Both distributions have in turn shared that they large number of software updates to bring out one, because many errors are eliminated. Because of the initially high number of errors users is the most time to recommend this, update a few weeks to wait before. Fedora is due to its more for power users and developers who want to keep with the latest on the ball, but aim for a certain balance with stability. Even users who have a taste of the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux want to be, are interested in Fedora. Who else belongs to the target group of Fedora is about the project itself does not probably agree. The ongoing discussion in the future could well lead to a change in direction, but I do not think this will be more severe. This work was published under GNU Free Documentation License. The copy, distribute and / or modify this allowed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. - More information References: Home of the Fedora project RPM Fusion package archive ATrpms package archive Audio Packages - Planet CCRMA at Home ( http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ ) Fedora Unity Deutschsprachiges Forum Fedoraforum.de International Forum Fedoraforum.org ................................... -- Niels http://nielsmayer.com