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    Anyone tried Fedora 9 yet?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Thomas, May 13, 2008.

  1. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Just released today...
    Looks good.
     
    Thomas, May 13, 2008
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  2. prol91

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    Downloading Fed9 and slackware 12.1 rght now.
     
    prol91, May 13, 2008
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  3. Thomas

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    Same here, downloading it via torrent.
     
    Thomas, May 13, 2008
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  4. nizzy1115

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    I'm still downloading it via torrent. Its crawling. I guess i have to wait to get home where my internet is not traffic shaped.
     
    nizzy1115, May 13, 2008
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  5. Thomas

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    Really? I had it at 150Kbp/s on a 3MBp/s connection.
     
    Thomas, May 13, 2008
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  6. nizzy1115

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    Like i said, the network im on uses traffic shaping. I'm at 15kbp/s on a T3.
     
    nizzy1115, May 13, 2008
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  7. Thomas

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    Wow, thats really slow.
     
    Thomas, May 13, 2008
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  8. prol91

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    I got it from the repos at 60 kb/s=normal.
    Also made a live usb.
     
    prol91, May 13, 2008
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    20GB monthly cap says hi >_>
     
    JCMS, May 13, 2008
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  10. prol91

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    Bell or Rogers. I have 60gb with rogers.
     
    prol91, May 13, 2008
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    That's pretty funny suckage. Switch IP's?
     
    Gintoki, May 13, 2008
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    i get 600 kb/sec n 60gb
     
    jl1989, May 14, 2008
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    I got pretty good speeds, seeding now.
     
    Gintoki, May 14, 2008
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  14. jopache1

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    I see that you have a 1390 wireless card. I have the same one in my laptop. Did Fedora configure it for you? If not, was it hard to get it recognized/configured yourself?
     
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  15. Amol

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    See now I'm just too lazy to go back and install a Linux Distro. I guess it won't hurt but I've to modify my partitions and all that stuff. Last time I did it, it wasn't a happy ending.
     
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    I really really liked fedora 8 until I couldn't connect to my windows network, and neither could anyone on the forum to theirs....think I'll torrent the livecd and check it out....hope they did something about that....tis a real world we live in ;D

    EDIT: I hope they haven't made it too good....I can't, just can't switch distro's again....but a little looksie wouldn't hurt, would it? LOL
     
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  17. Thomas

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    I wouldn't know, I haven't installed it.
     
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    I guess I'll be letting you know once I get it d/l. I'll try it in the live environment first.. getting 6KB/s on the torrent now. Was getting 800+ for a while earlier.
     
    jopache1, May 14, 2008
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    I'm averaging mid 300 with 400's spikes for Fedora 9 via torrent right now.
     
    theZoid, May 14, 2008
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    I'm in the Fedora 9 liveCD (KDE) now...obviously recognized my wireless card. Trying to see if I can connect to my EXT HD connected to a windows machine on the network. I was surprised to be greeted by KDE4....hadn't read anything on this release prior.

    EDIT: I tried to hook to my EXT HD connected to a windows 'server' in home network, and couldn't but I was on the live cd....I tried to launch Samba in systems settings and it crashed everytime, liveCD? Don't know. Everything else seemed fine....still wary of KDE4, but it sure looked pretty good. That's what I like about Kubuntu, it just finds and sets up those cross platform network shares during boot up. If it's a coupla clicks, I don't care....but if anyone does this without much hassle, please post about it!
     
    theZoid, May 14, 2008
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