Re: Why I think FC3 sucks!

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster margo bijoux nom br>]

Edward Yang wrote:

> 3. After several times of kernel updating (at least 3), I finally can 
> boot into X from the so called official kernel provided by FC3.
>
> 4. It is hopelessly slower than FC1! I could run FC1 with only 128mb 
> memory and don't feel much sluggishness. I now run FC3 with 164mb 
> memory, but it is visibly slower than FC1! Application startup time is 
> almost unbearable.
Do a test.. Get the source from kernel.org and recompile it , using the 
same config file used by redhat... You'll notice that it is just slow as 
the default kernel... This is related to some kernel changes made in the 
kernel that , in tools like virtual pc and vmware , result in running 
slower... In normal hardware  , it works at least as fast as (but 
usually faster than) kernel 2.4....

> 5. I am a newbie on Linux, but I already find a few bugs. For example, 
> in gnome-termial, if I set DEL to ASCII DEL in the profile settings, 
> it actualy acts like BACKSPACE. This bug may be specific only to 
> gnome, but since it's bundled with FC3, so I attribute the problem to 
> FC3. It's quite reasonable.

It's not reasonable. If the bug is in Gnome , it's a gnome bug , not a 
FC3 bug. Unless you find a item in the Changelog or a patch in the 
src.rpm added by redhat that caused the problem , it's an upstream bug 
that should be reported to Gnome.. Btw , did you made a bug report about 
it ???

> 6. I have not acurate data to prove this, but I feel the system boot 
> up time is longer than FC1.

Maybe.. FC1 didnt have selinux , didnt have NFS4 and a few other 
things.... You know that you can (and should) disable unnecessary 
services ? This have two effects: improved security and a little 
improvement in boot time.

> 7. This is a minor problem - I only installed kernel+gnome, no KDE. 
> Yet it takes up more than 2gb space. What the hell? A normal Windows 
> 2000 installation usually takes only 1.5gb even with all components 
> selected. I forgot how much was FC1, but FC3 apparently is not doing 
> better or even worse.

Let's not compare windows and linux , ok?
Do a rpm -qa and you'll see that you get a lot of other stuff... If you 
installed a single KDE app , you end up having to install several libs 
from KDE... Also , if you have openoffice , you'll notice that the i18n 
package is a little too big (it's meant to be split up for FC4)...  
(btw, if you dont remmember how much space FC1 used , how can you 
compare it?)

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Pedro Macedo