Free up your desk with Fedora.
Fedora it is an operating system for everyday use, characterized by being fast, stable and powerful. It is built by a community of friends around the entire planet. It is completely free and free, both to use it, to share it or to know how it works.
I arrive Fedora 19, now to try it in its version KDE.
Among its novelties:
- KDE 4.10
- Improved interface in the Anaconda installer
- GCC 4.8
- GNOME 3.8
- Better support for 3D printing
- Ruby 2.0
- Java 8 (OpenJDK8)
- RPM 4.11
- PHP 5.5
- BIND 10
Fedora 19 arrives with kernel 3.9.5-301.fc19, but after the update you get the kernel kernel 3.9.8-300.fc19.
In the installation process, some improvements are noticed. But it still looks green, it takes time to fix some mini-bugs.
Choose Language.
In this menu you can choose your partitions, Keyboard layout;
Enter the Root passwords, such as User name, Password and permissions.
In KDE.
Once inside your new installation of Fedora 19, we met with KDE 4.10.4.
The speed and fluidity of KDE applications becomes heavy at times, but in GTK they are appreciated lightly.
Its input ranges from 400 MB to 500 MB, its performance with Firefox (More than 5 tabs), Gimp, Tuxguitar, Netbeans, Clementine (playing), VLC (playing a movie), reaches 2.5 GBs and with great fluency .
YUM and DNF.
Yum, the default package manager for Fedora in version 3.4.3 and DNF, the alternative package manager for Fedora 0.3.8.
DNF is a fork of Yum in beta state I would say, that I really do not see news, only that it has fewer commands and it looks neat when executing:
dnf search
Comparing YUM and DNF, there are few differences and if they are noticed they are minimal. Once DNF is tasted, it does not leave us with a bad taste in our mouths, but Yum is better and more complete.
Driver Detector
External Monitor, Printer, Audio: Without any problem, after installation, they are detected automatically.
Ati video: In this case I have to install the proprietary drivers.
1) Update system:
su yum update -y
2) Install the ATI Drivers:
yum install -y akmod-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs
3) Restart.
4) To verify if the drivers work:
glxinfo | grep -i "\ (render \ | opengl \)"
After installing Fedora 19 in .pdf
Using Fedup.
I didn't get to use it, but this is the simplest guide.
fedup --network 19
- Wait for it to download all the packages and reboot the system.
- You will see in the grub "UPGRADE FEDUP" select it and wait for it to finish.
- Restart the system.
Conclusions
Fedora 19 is a great advance for those of us who got to use the previous version, but it still has a way to go. Compared to openSUSE 12.3 y Tumbleweed, I'll stick with the last one, being friendlier, and the rolling release effect. Fedora, I would like a version with longer support time or Rolling, with this, you would be face to face with openSUSE.
Good Review so to speak, undoubtedly one of the best "Releases" from this project: D!
PS: Currently I was looking forward to this version, and Gnome 3.8 is super cool and flies on my i5 with 8 GB of RAM !.
No problem so far.
Regards!
Yes, sorry to all who read this post.
The review is very poor, compared to the previous work and that I love the rpm distros.
Sorry.
You clarified that it is a small review, and you had the will to do it. No sorry man, that's fine. Too bad you used KDE… ..hahahaha. How's it going tomorrow if I can try the Spin.
Thanks, but it's not what I wanted for fedora.
Well, kde in fedora I see it heavy compared to other distros, I did not expect much, fedora specializes in gtk.
But it has more packages in the fusion rpm repos, more current, and stable.
You'd better try Fedora on another desktop like cinnamon.
Of what if I complain, it is the support time, 9 months I see it very short. An alternative LTS or RR repos, such as openSUSE would come in handy.
I also want to try the Mate + Compiz Spin, to see how it goes. By the way I warn you, if you think that by installing Gnome-Classic you will have before you an exact copy of Gnome 2.x, forget it, it is nothing more than Gnome-Shell with extensions. Now if you like "half copies" go ahead.
Saluods
Well, the truth is I liked the KDE of Fedora, I have 18 not yet migrated to 19 but in updates there is already 4.10.4 and I'm doing wonders.
And on stability please, it does not compare with Wheezy but much better than Kubuntu, I keep saying that those of Kubuntu should all go to the Debian Qt / KDE team, that Ubuntu base is a drag.
Well, right now I'm with Archlinux + KDE .. I'll tell you about it.
@dhunter I recommend openSUSE tumbleweed is very good.
@elav Archlinux + KDE is always excellent, the problem is stability in updates.
I have never understood how updates work in fedora, is it that the newest software is installed as soon as it is available as in a rolling release, or does it work like Ubuntu, only offering security updates and almost never new versions of the software?
It depends, in general it tends to "risk" more than Ubuntu in that regard. Sometimes the desktop environment is even updated. Packages like, for example, Transmission (to say the least) are usually kept up to date to the latest stable version. But neither is it a Rolling Release like Archlinux can be. It is half there.
And with regard to new versions of the kernel, it is downloaded manually from the repos as in arch, you have to compile it from 0 as in ubuntu, or is it different?
Today, the best distribution with KDE is without a doubt Chakra. He gives a thousand turns to Fedora in terms of integration and packages for this environment.
Although when configuring a server and other more complex tasks, Fedora tools and configurations are appreciated.
For desktop users who want KDE I would not recommend this distribution, except for special cases. For example, I do use Fedora with KDE on a Macbook Pro because the battery lasts longer and works out of the box with almost all hardware (minus a couple of things).
A greeting!
Let's not forget Rosa Linux .. hehe .. (not in Troll mode)
I tried it ... very slow ... I prefer Kubuntu 13.04 ... it's a rocket !!!
It would be interesting if they also did the review with Gnome.
Here you have a "flyby" with Gnome:
http://www.com-sl.org/fedora-19-schrodingers-cat-ya-esta-entre-nosotros-el-gato-esta-vivo.html
regards
How I like Fedora: D .. It doesn't matter if it's with KDE or XFCE 😀
Yes, but I'll wait until RHEL 7 comes out to avoid problems with repos, kernel panics with the VIA chipset and things like that.
Hello friends, the question is this: I have Fedora 17 installed on my desktop machine and I want to upgrade to Fedora 19, I already have the image on DVD. How do i do it? I don't see anywhere the option (as before) to update a previous version of Fedora.
To upgrade to Fedora 19 you must use fedup from Fedora 17 itself, as the article says, in a root console, after installing the fedup package: "fedup –network 19".
I am in the same situation and will update when I am close to running out of support (weeks).
If one thing I have never liked about Fedora is RPM, I have had bad experiences with this package system (I have used OpenSuse, CentOS and Fedora). Another thing that I don't like about fedora is its constant problem with VIA + nouveau drivers (My old PC is based on the VIAP4M890 chipset), I have a GeForce 8400 GS card, and since I've tried version 11 onwards, never I have been able to install it and make it work well in the graphics section, even sometimes, the LiveCD does not even start due to the kernel panic.
start with the nomodeset parameter in the kernel, after installing fedora you install the NVIDIA driver.
I've already tried it, with the nomodeset noacpi nolapic noapic options, and it still doesn't work for me. I have not been able to test a Fedora on my machine since the days of Fedora Core 5.
I know that feel bro, I also had a P4M900 + Nvidia 8600 GT motherboard. From Fedora 15 I could install it but in the first start it only lasted about 5-10 minutes and it was ticked, I did not have time to install the nvidia drivers. I partially fixed it by taking out the video card, but that chipset is slow for KDE and Gnome 3 boots into fallback. In addition to the fact that ubuntu became heavy, the poor pc ended up dismantled.
It's a crazy thing, I imagine that the problem must be with the support that the Fedora kernel gives to that chipset, which by the way is not the best in the world, but that is no reason not to be able to enjoy the distro, I have Tried on the same machine, Debian (current distro), Arch (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, Openbox and Awesome), Sabayon (it gave me the same Fedora roll but with nomodeset and noacpi the installation runs without rolls), anyway, I It's a bad feeling that such a renowned distro has had such a "bug" for so long and they didn't fix it. : /
And have you already reported the bug? Because if not, how are they going to know? If you did, pass me the link that will help you reach the responsible developers.
On the other hand, you can always compile the kernel yourself, it's a very simple thing to do.
Greetings.
The bug has already been reported since 2009
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533667
And there are quite a few others similar to my case:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=145233
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538911
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543664
And about the kernel, I know it's easy to do it, but do it from an installer prompt, integrate it into the distro and then install it.
Luckily with Debian Squeeze I didn't have that problem with the VIA chipset with integrated video S3 (except for the colors).
For the kernel ... try a 3.2 kernel and voila. Report the bug at kernel.org, its bugzilla, someone will answer for sure.
That mother has a VIA chipset, which from the beginning ... I invite you to put a wifi card in a pci, with an atheros chipset and let's see what happens ... it hangs ... the atheros should have released a patch.
It is a problematic chipset, but it would be interesting to see if it happens to you with Fedora or with all Linux distro, since a kernel is a kernel ... and that is no longer a Fedora issue, but you should elevate it to upstream, kernel.org, in fact I reported a problem on intel and they fixed it (those from kernel.org).
It would be nice if you report the bug at least so Fedora can raise the case to kernel.org and fix the problem.
From now on I tell you that the integrated SIS or VIA boards are disgusting how they go in Linux, that's historical ... it's not a matter of the distro itself.
"Debian (current distro), Arch (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, Openbox and Awesome), Sabayon (it gave me the same Fedora roll but with nomodeset and noacpi the installation goes without rolls)"
It is a kernel issue, not Fedora. And if you go with nomodeset and noacpi, they are 2 bugs, the VIA video card that sucks, and that is an issue that does not stay in the kernel much, because come on ... today they are all ati, nvidia, intel in mostly, those times of trident, S3, and old things are over.
The second, noacpi, is also the chipset, and maybe with a BIOS update you will solve it.
If you want as German says, report it and we will give you a hand with the subject.
SINCE VERSION 18 I HAVE INSTALLED IT AND IMPROVED THE INTERFACE VERY MUCH IN LOCAL MODE; BUT I COULDN'T FIND HOW TO CONFIGURE THE DIFFERENT SERVERS (APACHE, MYSQL, ETC) WHICH WAS VERY SIMPLE IN ANY LINUX, THEY HAD AN ENTRY CALLED CONFIGURE SERVER AND WHEN ENTERING THE SERVICES THERE IS NO WHERE "PALOMEAR" TO START YOUR SERVICE FOR TIME TO START SUCH SERVICES AND I HAVE NOT REVIEWED AGAIN
here you will see the light
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/lamp-linux-apache-mysql-php-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/
Sorry to ask this here but I have googled and found no answer. I have a laptop with a core i5 ivy bridge with igp hd4000 and a dedicated amd graphics, the issue is that it detects the 2 graphics according to lspci but only uses the intel.
What I want is for him to use the amd with the free drivers (so he doesn't use up so much battery) but I don't know how, if someone can tell me how I would appreciate it
greetings.
PS: I use Fedora 19.
Brother go to the forum make a post and ask 🙂 http://foro.desdelinux.net/viewtopic.php?id=1568 in that post one asked the same thing as you but amd ... before it was ATI I think ... well add more info and surely someone will help you, greetings.
thank you very much!
the amd with the free drivers uses more battery than the intel.
You remind me of when an acquaintance of mine upgraded Ubuntu and the entire video was misconfigured, replacing the NVIDIA driver with the useless Noveau.
This may be the best version of Fedora to date, although I liked version 14 the most.
In my case I tried it on my computer but it gives me problems with the graphics, the little support time is one of the things that has negatives for this distro.
For this reason I stay with Rosa Fresh which is the best.
Yes sir, the best Linux distro with Gnome 2.x was Fedora 14, even than previous Fedoras.
I read meter and stopped reading.
I watched Linux From Scratch and didn't read you.
Oops! What a barbarian, I will not be able to sleep ...
Rosa Fresh R1 lasted me a week ... very slow to start and started to crash; I returned to Kubuntu 13.04 which is going like rocket !!!
How will fedora 19 be, who approved it?
I have it installed. Try it, it works great.
I tried it with XFCE and I didn't like it 🙁
yes, the installer (Anaconda I think it's called) is excellent, very neat and easy to use 😀
I really like Fedora but I stopped using it because of the AMD Privative Drives
I installed it from the first day with Gnome, and go if you feel the change compared to version 18, more loose, faster, more stable, it did not give me any error and I already installed and updated many packages. The only thing I still feel as its only weak point is Anaconda, it is still cumbersome with the partitions, from there on out majestic as expected and without any problem working all day.
The good thing about Fedora: more intuitive Anaconda installer in its graphical mode (I'm not saying the same about its console mode); programs a day and GNOME 3.8 with the Classic Shell so as not to lose the habit (although I prefer Mate for a better lightness experience).
The bad: The Anaonda installer with graphical mode consumes a lot of video (96 MB) compared to the graphical Debian installer; It is in rolling release limbo (not as razor-sharp as Arch and not as stagnant as Ubuntu Release or Debian Testing); intended for home use only (wait until RHEL / CentOS 7 comes out if you want to use a "stabilized" version of Fedora).
Apparently, this version is an improvement on the Fedora 18 that I tried previously and I disliked it because it did not have the classic GNOME 3.8 shell.
I've been testing Fedora with Cinnamon, LXDE or Mate, they just fly!
Regards!
I AM NOT ABLE TO INSTALL IT, I stay a bit beyond the capture 4 of the article but it does not let me choose the partition (Since I have 3so-windos for work, ubuntu and one more linux paticion to experiment distros with open OPEM SUSE was a chaos, windos disappeared from the start menu and I had to install everything myself, I tried ANTERGOSY THE SAME. Now I have linux mint) the fedora installer was different before I tell you why I tried it for a while and was able to install it, now not I can do wrong ... a little help pot avor?
I struggled a lot to install (in a matter of choosing the partitions to use) Fedora 19, it was very difficult for me haha but in the end I managed to install Fedora 19 with Gnome Shell 3.8 and it goes very smooth and without any problems, I think it was worth installing it.
The only thing that, I think, should change or improve is the installer from then on everything is fine.
Off topic: Do you know how to solve the SHA1 problem that CentOS generates when I burn the ISO? Since an acquaintance of mine burned the two CentOS 6.4 DVDs and apparently the SHA1 file got corrupted and could not continue the installation.
1st - Download your isos using wget in this way by terminal without being root:
32 bit:
wget http://mirror.netglobalis.net/pub/centos/6.4/isos/i386/CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD1.iso
wget http://mirror.netglobalis.net/pub/centos/6.4/isos/i386/CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD2.iso
64 bit:
wget http://mirror.netglobalis.net/pub/centos/6.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
wget http://mirror.netglobalis.net/pub/centos/6.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso
2nd md5 test with the k3b recording program:
32 bit:
a6049df141579169b217cbb625da4c6d CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD1.iso
0825241d7255aef22d0775f9a7df49fb CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD2.iso
64 bit:
0128cfc7c86072b13ee80dd013e0e5d7 CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
b3ad334225511b7d3625a86b7b70d062 CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso
3rd If the sums coincide, you can save with k3b without any problem. I only recommend k3b since on many occasions the brazier produced errors when recording.
regards
Quick download links in Latin America:
Argentina:
32 bits
wget http://centos.xfree.com.ar/6.4/isos/i386/CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD1.iso
wget http://centos.xfree.com.ar/6.4/isos/i386/CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD2.iso
64 bits
wget http://centos.xfree.com.ar/6.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
wget http://centos.xfree.com.ar/6.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso
Brazil:
32 bits
wget http://mirror.globo.com/centos/6.4/isos/i386/CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD1.iso
wget http://centos.xfree.com.ar/6.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso
64 bits
wget http://mirror.globo.com/centos/6.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
wget http://mirror.globo.com/centos/6.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso
Mexico:
32 bits
wget http://centos.webxcreen.org/6.4/isos/i386/CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD1.iso
wget http://centos.webxcreen.org/6.4/isos/i386/CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD2.iso
64 bits
wget http://centos.webxcreen.org/6.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
wget http://centos.webxcreen.org/6.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.4-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso
Chile:
look at my entry above 😀
I couldn't install it, I don't know what happened but the graphical installer didn't allow me to see the lower buttons ... I went back to Kubuntu which never gives me a problem to install and work immediately.
haaay fedora ... my eternal love for fedora, it was always my favorite distro, since before with the fedora core and even Red Hat Linux, but that version 18 was a fiasco I can say it, I just downloaded the version 19 fedora Mate, because the Fedora version 14 was the last to come with gnome 2, I have tried it and it is a mass, a beauty, hehehe what memories ... but I'm still here in Xubuntu let's see if I dare to install (I think so) greetings!
The problem that arises me is that unlike the previous installer, now I cannot install more than a single desktop environment initially from the DVD. When before I chose, if I wanted to, Gnome, Xfce or Lxde or all four together. But now already. no, or at least not I couldn't do it. Is there a way?
being a fedorist, since version 18 it is a real hassle to install
Being Redhatrista and Fedorista, Fedora 18 was bad, bad. But that happens with this distribution and all the others.
But Fedora 19 is different, it is wonderful. A gem: it doesn't run, it flies.
And Anaconda now works like a charm. Never has a distro been so quick and easy to install.
Alright, Fedora team !!
I only got to know Fedora with version 18 unfortunately, but now writing since 19, I sincerely fall in love, I have not had any errors, with the updated machine, applications installed, running all day, fast, light, stable, free, it cannot be more perfect.
It gives me problems with the uefi, the installer gives me an error when I want to install the bootloader, I solved it by installing version 18 and updating it with fedup, everything seemed to work perfectly until I gave it update and now it does not start mark «a start job is running for NetworkManager "as with Sendmail, when it finishes doing its thing it tells me that it has failed and stays in" reached target graphical interface ", I don't know what to do 🙁. So far I have not been able to solve it.
what is the root password to be able to do all that
I want to know daleee
I've had fedora 18 installed and had some minor hardware recognition issues, and gnome3 was very slow. I have installed fedora 19 and everything has been overcome. A lower use of hardware resources is observed, and the speed of use increased. To account for the primary installer in fedora Anaconda, it leaves a lot to be desired in disk install management. Little customizable.
Fedora is worth recommending in its base version gnome 3
Hello friend thanks for your contribution but I have a little problem, when I installed fedora 19 with kde in my laptop lenovo g480 with Intel core i3 64bits, the first thing I was to update and I had the kernel 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 and now It has another kernel that does not control the brightness of the screen, in the / sys / class / backlight folder I have acpi0_video and intel_backlight and it is already super verified that I only need the intel_backlight to control the brightness, and when I start the laptop it makes me choose The first kernel that I don't need and the second option is the kernel 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 and I choose the second kernel, tell me is there a way to remove acpi0_video or put the second kernel in first order, thanks for your help
Hello, for work reasons I have had to join the world of centos / redhat / fedora, always what I used was ubnutu or debian, and then the problem of the repos in this distro has cost me a job, the way to add them to which It would be sourceslist of ubuntu, and make them a mirror to have them local when there is no internet, there is a forum, web or whatever the explanation is