Tuesday, September 16, 2008

FC 8

Didn't have any other DVD, so decided to install FC8.
FC8 was irritating for the following reasons :
1. There is no control panel, just a System menu to manage the hardware. This is less userfriendly.
2. fdisk command does not exist.
3. I thought that the larger installation media would include many apps that I would otherwise have had to download, but Wine was missing - a glaring omission.
4. Only gnome and KDE as window managers, XFCE was a worthy inclusion.
5. No easy way to manage partitions. Unlike some other root level apps that can be launched from the menu by the user - and the root password subsequently provided, the disk management menu will not launch at all. Combined with the failure of fdisk, mounting partitions was an uphill task.
Another annoyance, no K3B.

Since I have been in Opensuse 10.3 for the longest time, I am currently downloading the DVD image of the same. Hopefully, it will come with Wine.

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