Fedora Linux under Virtual PC for Mac

[Antony]

I am pleased to announce I successfully installed Fedora Linux 1 on Virtual PC for Mac 6.1.1 under Mac OS X 10.3.3

Compared to Mandrake 10 (under Virtual PC for Mac), Fedora is a lot better than Mandrake. The screen is a lot smoother as well as easy configuration (very few).
I had to configure the video card etc in order to get X11 to work, in Fedora, it detects automatically (the emulated video card by Virtual PC for Mac).
Best of all, network is working. (I failed to get the network working.) I can connect to the net!



And as running in PowerMac G4 (dual 1.42GHz with 2GB RAM), it is reasonable fast with all the eye candy on at this moment. I will need to figure out a way to remove those eye candy.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031030

[Edward]

What comes with Fedora as far as applications go?

UserAgent: Opera/7.50 (X11; Linux i586; U) [en]

[Mandrake]

More or less the same stuff you get in SuSE, but Gnome is the default shell (as opposed to KDE) and you have the Bluecurve theme SuSE set Mozilla up for me with Java and Flash, RealPlayer all ready to go, but in Fedora you must do all this manually, which is a pain. It also has no MP3 support out-of-the-box, but that is easy to enable.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040520

[DJGM]

Also, SUSE Linux automounts all your Windows partitions and gives them desktop icons.

As I recall, from when I tested it a few months ago, Fedora Core Linux does not . . .

Meanwhile, according to this MozillaZine Tech thread there are some quite bad
problems with Fedora Core Linux 2, such as stopping Windows XP booting up,
on a PC set up to dual boot between the two operating systems . . .

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

[Edward]

Also, SUSE Linux automounts all your Windows partitions and gives them desktop icons.

As I recall, from when I tested it a few months ago, Fedora Core Linux does not . . .

Meanwhile, according to this MozillaZine Tech thread there are some quite bad
problems with Fedora Core Linux 2, such as stopping Windows XP booting up,
on a PC set up to dual boot between the two operating systems . . .

As I had not booted the K6-2 into Windows since I installed SuSE 9.1 yesterday, I did so today after reading about the Fedora Core 2 problem. Windows came up fine.

UserAgent: Opera/7.50 (X11; Linux i586; U) [en]

[Don_HH2K]

I would be running Linux if I could find a driver for my Orinoco wireless LAN pc card. The problem is that it is so old that it won't work with all-purpose drivers such as "wireless PC card", etc. and uses proprietary connection software. It was labeled as Wi-Fi but was so early that it won't connect to anything other than another orinoco network.

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