Re: [LUAU] FC2T3
Apologize for not being very diligent in following up on this thread. I must say that this is no doubt the most impressive desktop OS that I have ever played with (I have Windows XP Pro on one of my machines). Even though this is only a beta, the performance (and aesthetics) of Fedora Core 2 is absolutely stunning. Absolutely stunning. Michael Bishop (of HOSEF and DOE) and I are talking about setting up a Fedora Core 2 demo at McKinley. To entice students' interests, this will be on a fairly decent system (Athlon XP 2000 with 512 MB DDR RAM and a 17" LCD monitor). While the eventual goal of this demo, As far as I am concerned, is to try to seed Linux interests in our local Chinese/Japanese communities, I encourage everyone in our Linux community to get involved. Once it is set up, I will list a number of projects that are of great interests to SOHO users and which I hope some of us can become experts at. Unfortunately, when I was moving this machine from its current location to my car at Ala Moana Mall parking lot, I seem to have the transformer (i.e., AC/DC converter). While we are still trying to find it, if anyone has a spare 12V, 3.5A transformer (w/ cable), or knows whether I can find a used one, I will greatly appreciate it. Mahalo. wayne
Re: [LUAU] FC2T3
It appears that Fedora Core uses 4K stacks (instead of 8K stacks), and nVidia has not created drivers that work with 4K stacks yet. (FC2T1 was based on the 2.6.3 kernel; it did not have this problem.) Of course there are ways to patch up around this problem. But it appears that vNidia is getting the message. wayne
Re: [LUAU] FC2T3
You would think not very many people would be interested in a "test" distro, right? Wrong! Even at this wee/late hour, all the mirrors are still maxed out. I don't care about what the polls say, but if anyone doubts about the popularity of Linux, s/he needs to be re-educated. I am anxious to get a hand on the Test 3. With Test 1/2 and the mainline 2.6.5 kernel, the nVidia driver causes the system to freeze SOLID. I had to log in under init 1 to change the X config file back to the nv driver. (As I mentioned in a separate thread, it is a pain to use the nv driver on the nVidia cards, as the screen got shifted to the right which needs to be manually adjusted.) I will see whether it's worth the while to set up a FC2 test system at the Travel University in the Alama Moana Tower (most likely a FC1/FC2 dual boot--Warren is doing some major changes on FC1 and I'll wait until they become final). It feels good that I can be so critical about Linux and yet I am not concerned that somebody will call me a troll, because this system has really become matured. wayne
[LUAU] FC2T3
Fedora Core 2 Test 3 is supposed to be coming out tomorrow. Any brave souls?!
