Since I’m no longer running my own Linux server to host this blog, I have a spare machine to play with. Red Hat just released Fedora Core 10, I thought I try and upgrade my FC9 system, and see what changes they’ve made. As expected, I could upgrade the OS by just booting the DVD. There’s no need to download a separate ISO for it. Next, I found out that updating the boot loader was not sufficient: GRUB would not start! So I had to install a new boot loader. The booting process seemed kinda messy, with the kernel complaining my /dev/sda* volumes not able to mount properly. Other than the relatively minor rough start, Gnome desktop started up fine. So did my previous compiled versions of MySQL and Apache.
Since I don’t use the GUI much on Fedora Core, I don’t notice anything particularly different than Ubuntu’s. Gnome looks the same with the difference of the new wallpaper art of a blue star. There were several other theme pictures considered, but that’s just trivial stuff. The kernels themselves were found to perform practically the same between Fedora and Ubuntu installs.
Fedora 10 is my last home install for this Linux flavor. I’m using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 at work (a 64-bit version with 32G of RAM), so I’m still exposed to Fedora Core Linux, ableit an older version. It has been a rock solid server OS. Interestingly enough, my current hosting site is on Fedora Linux exclusively, so I’m not really leaving it behind, at all!
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