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| Kevin Petway 2005-04-22, 7:45 am |
| Fedora Core 3 is not for the general user without any GNU/Linux
experience. The NVIDIA video card is a issue with not knowing what to
install with the version of card you have. You will most times have to
build these type of drives. You should stay with general release. I
have a new Dell Workstaion 470:
Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology.
64MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro NVS 280, Dual VGA Capable.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (V.3) for EM64T
(Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS rel.3 (Taroon Update 4)
As others have said stay with production if you don't have the tool set
to manage this type of hardware setup. My setup above works great and I
build and work on products all day and then run at night. I have only
rebooted once to do Update 4. Which has been 90 days. This is a proven
OS on all types of hardware and companies use this such as mine. And
BIG BLUE is changing their new direction along with SUN to Red Hat
Enterprise.
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| Me Here 2005-04-22, 7:45 am |
| Kevin Petway wrote:
> Fedora Core 3 is not for the general user without any GNU/Linux
> experience. The NVIDIA video card is a issue with not knowing what to
> install with the version of card you have. You will most times have to
> build these type of drives. You should stay with general release. I
> have a new Dell Workstaion 470:
> Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology.
> 64MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro NVS 280, Dual VGA Capable.
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (V.3) for EM64T
> (Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS rel.3 (Taroon Update 4)
>
> As others have said stay with production if you don't have the tool set
> to manage this type of hardware setup. My setup above works great and I
> build and work on products all day and then run at night. I have only
> rebooted once to do Update 4. Which has been 90 days. This is a proven
> OS on all types of hardware and companies use this such as mine. And
> BIG BLUE is changing their new direction along with SUN to Red Hat
> Enterprise.
>
Meh? There's only one NVIDIA driver package to install, what's hard
about that? Ok, there's two if you count 64/32 bit editions, but still!
I've been using Fedora across 30ish machines with differing parts ever
since FC1 and the only major problem I've had was when I tried to roll
out the ATI driver. Heh, my fault and I'm not gonna do that again...
FC3 is a great distro that most people can learn reasonably fast. Now,
Gentoo isn't for the general user though...
Me.
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| Ivan Marsh 2005-04-22, 5:46 pm |
| On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:31:11 -0400, Kevin Petway wrote:
> Fedora Core 3 is not for the general user without any GNU/Linux
> experience.
Speak for yourself.
> The NVIDIA video card is a issue with not knowing what to
> install with the version of card you have. You will most times have to
> build these type of drives.
Nvidia supplies a driver for their cards that's a one line install.
> As others have said stay with production if you don't have the tool set
> to manage this type of hardware setup. My setup above works great and I
> build and work on products all day and then run at night. I have only
> rebooted once to do Update 4. Which has been 90 days. This is a proven
> OS on all types of hardware and companies use this such as mine. And
> BIG BLUE is changing their new direction along with SUN to Red Hat
> Enterprise.
Not sure what your point is?
--
Life is short, but wide. -KV
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