Convince me to try Fedora 9

[Alienwho]

I've been running ubuntu on several of my machines recently and have absolutely loved it. Recently, I upgraded my computer and part of the upgrade was my new 9600GT that I can't seem to get working correctly. It was a bit of a pain to get the drivers working on my old 7900GT but I was able to do it with a little poking around. I've spent much more time trying to get the 9600GT working, unsuccessfully.

I figured I might as well take this chance to try something new. I downloaded Fedora 9 DVD and installed a VM to try it out, thinking I'd give the new KDE 4 a shot. Well under no point was I able to choose KDE or gnome, and it installed gnome by default. I guess KDE isn't an option on the DVD and you have to install the KDE live cd?

Anyway, this, combined with the unfamiliarity of not having synaptic or apt-get and that the nvidia drivers supposedly aren't released for fedora right now at all has really put a damper on my enthusiasm to try it out.

Is there any hope? Or should I just wait for SUSE 11 to come out before trying a different distro? And while we're at it any suggestions on my 9600GT to play nice with Hardy so I can turn up the eye candy?

 

[soonerproud]

Nvidia drivers do not work with Fedora 9, unless you are willing to downgrade the x-server to an earlier version. The reason for that is Fedora has decided to includes a pre-release version of the x-server. Nvidia only supports released versions of the x-server so the drivers do not install/work properly with Fedora 9. If the Nvidia drivers are why you are leaving Ubuntu, then avoid Fedora 9 for now.

 

[xSauronx]

this is what you get for leaving debian, at least you did the wise thing and tried it in a VM first

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: xSauronx
this is what you get for leaving debian, at least you did the wise thing and tried it in a VM first

could you sound any more childish?

You like rubbing it in that he's having troubles or something?

At least he has an open mind and doesn't mind trying new things.

So much choices out there. Linux != Debian or it's derivates.

Linux = CHOICE

 

[little elvis]

Originally posted by: Alienwho
I've been running ubuntu on several of my machines recently and have absolutely loved it. Recently, I upgraded my computer and part of the upgrade was my new 9600GT that I can't seem to get working correctly. It was a bit of a pain to get the drivers working on my old 7900GT but I was able to do it with a little poking around. I've spent much more time trying to get the 9600GT working, unsuccessfully.

I figured I might as well take this chance to try something new. I downloaded Fedora 9 DVD and installed a VM to try it out, thinking I'd give the new KDE 4 a shot. Well under no point was I able to choose KDE or gnome, and it installed gnome by default. I guess KDE isn't an option on the DVD and you have to install the KDE live cd?

Anyway, this, combined with the unfamiliarity of not having synaptic or apt-get and that the nvidia drivers supposedly aren't released for fedora right now at all has really put a damper on my enthusiasm to try it out.

Is there any hope? Or should I just wait for SUSE 11 to come out before trying a different distro? And while we're at it any suggestions on my 9600GT to play nice with Hardy so I can turn up the eye candy?

If you are looking to try out KDE4, Fedora 9 is NOT the distribution to try. Fedora 9's implementation of KDE4 is horrible, bordering on unusable. (I've used KDE since ver 1.0)

The Opensuse team actually put some effort into making KDE4 work (in Opensuse 11beta3), not perfect, but 1000x better than Fedora.

I've been using Fedora since FC4, however, since I'm a KDE user, I just might jump ship when Opensuse 11 is released.

 

[wetcat007]

Fedora imho will be a pain.

To get it working on Ubuntu, do not install any of the restricted drivers from the ubuntu servers.
Download http://www.nvidia.com/object/l...splay_ia32_173.08.html
Remember where you downloaded it to

Switch to a console (ctrl+alt+f1) and login on it.
After logging in type "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop" (this will turn off xwindows)
Then time to install drivers 🙂
"sudo sh /home/user/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.08-pkg1.run" (just an example do whatever the correct path is)
It will start the setup you can pretty much hit enter through all the screens if I remember right, make sure to say yes when it asks to make a new config file for you.
You can then type "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start" and it should start up using the new nvidia drivers.
Not quite as clean and simple as ubuntu's restricted driver install but it works.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: little elvis
The Opensuse team actually put some effort into making KDE4 work (in Opensuse 11beta3), not perfect, but 1000x better than Fedora.

Thank you! 😉