Hi all!!!
Got Fedora 2 Linux , which is a project by both red hat and the Fedora comunity…
First off, before I go off ranting, I have a Real Oddball configuration for my old DELL system. I have sound max integrated sound (Intel), ATI Radon 9800 128mb GFX card, and a Intel based networking card… all of the above are what is called OEM versions, witch is really bad if you have to configure them with anything other than windows.
ANACONDA the installer ran great! it saw all my system without me having to tell it anything other than that I preferred English, and the usual password user name stuff…
this is the first Linux disturb that saw my sound system without me having to tweak the volume controls or install ALSA…
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it is also the first Linux distro that saw that I had a OEM radon 9800 GFX card…
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and here is the bad stuff
It found my graphics card but did not enable 3d acceleration. and the RPM’s from ATI don’t support the 2.6 Kernel!
I have been really spoiled with KNOPPIX, fedora comes very plain for the home user install… NO ABILITIES TO PLAY MP3 files, for that matter they removed all Mpeg codex!!! No ability to display GIFF files either… some Patent pending BS!
they have a way that the Linux user can directly install things to system from command line, Called APT-GET just like Debian the problem is that you have to manually install it and manually find all the other programs it depends on and install them one at a time… after the whole ordeal is done I find out that it is still half baked for fedora core 2 so I could not use GUI programs with APT-GET like Kpackage, and Synaptic.
Redhat and Fedora are famous for the RPM’s used to install things simply… yet in Fedora 2 RPM’s have nothing associated with them in GNOME or KDE, you have to do everything from command line.
OK Now for the Icing on the cake!
After spending all afternoon getting fedora to the point to where I can install my custom applications. I decided to take a break and to come and do some Zbrushing in my windows partition…
ANACONDA did not place my boot strap in the right partition (Never gives you a choice to custom install the boot loader), thus my windows NTSF system got totally CRUNCHED!!! not to mention that it made the Linux partition unuseable…
Sooooo I grabbed my trusty KNOPPIX cd and started over again, installing windows (6 hours getting all drivers, and installing applications/games), and installing Debian from KNOPPIX (20 minuets with all drivers and applications, KNOPPIX ROX!!!)
I got everything up and running, now all I have to do is wait till morning to contact people to ask permission to use my licence of Z2 again…
RED HAT, and FEDORA are not recomended for noobies IMHO! KNOPPIX ROCKS!!! Debian is by far my favorite flavor of Linux so far 
