…or maybe that should be ‘new distro, same bugs’?
Swapped Fedora Core 1 for 2 this weekend.
Same install procedure – although my old routine of copying the CDs to my server and installing over HTTP doesn’t work because there aren’t any boot disk images any more – so no great surprises. My standard install recipe consists of:
Reboot into run level 3 Edit /etc/yum.conf for my local repositories yum -y update Reboot into run level 3 again Install the latest NVIDIA drivers Reboot into run level 5 Install apt from freshrpms.net apt-get install synaptic Edit /etc/fstab for my various NFS mounts Install the various mp3 codecs and plugins for XMMS and GStreamer Install Firefox + extensionsWith that all done, there’s nothing exceptionally new and shiny about FC2 (apart from the fact that it’s new and shiny). It’s a bit faster (though not that noticeable on my classic Athlon 800MHz), and it’s got newer packages. Haven’t really got a strong opinion either way at the moment on the spatial nautilus thing – it works, and I’m happy with it.
As mentioned above, support for floppy boot disks has now gone, so my old HTTP installation routine no longer works. Instead they provide a bootable CD-ROM image and some PXE instructions that I’ve not looked into yet. I think PXE + rom-o-matic will be my new solution. I may have to invest some effort in Kickstart as well.
Of course there’s now another step added to my standard install: Mono, on which note:
My first Mono application – Hello World! – original, huh? This isn’t your typical hello world demo app though – it’s running against a PHP / NuSOAP based web service that I wrote and consumed.
I’ll save my commentary on Mono for another post – I’ll let you have one comment for now though: bags of potential…
