Apr 2

Fedora Core 1

I’m writing this entry from my new Red Hat Fedora Core 1 machine. It’s very nice. Install was as simple as Windows (simpler, probably), and it’s very functional right out of the box. It had network connectivity right away, and I can browse all my Windows shares without a problem. (I haven’t tackled the network printers yet.)

I’m running KDE at really high resolution, and it’s pretty snappy for an old 550 MHz Gateway I had lying around. Font rendering is amazing — it does anti-aliasing on the level of OS X. It makes my Windows XP box look choppy and jagged.

The only hitches I’ve run into are replacing all my Windows software. I haven’t found a good replacement for Edit Plus yet (yes, text editors are abundant, but I want one with an FTP client built in). And it can’t quite figure out what to open PDFs in yet. Gnone knew to open TAR files in File Roller, but KDE evidentally doesn’t share that knowledge. I’ll also need to find something to replace Zempt.

Email is handled by Ximiam Evolution; Web browsing via Mozilla. OpenOffice is installed by default, as are lots of utilities — FTP clients and such. The Gimp is here too, but only version 1.2

All in all, a great product. I’m pretty functional right off the bat. We have some summer interns coming in here to do a data entry project for a few months — I’m awfully tempted to just round up some old hardware and load up Fedora for them.

by Deane   April 2, 2004 10:27 AM   |

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by Joe,   April 2, 2004 10:45 AM  

I've found Kate, KDE's advanced text editor, to be a worthy replacement for EditPlus. There's no need to look for an FTP client, since KDE has FTP support built in. Anything that uses KDE's open/save dialogs has FTP support. Ark is KDE's equivalent of File Roller. Red Hat might have borked it, but you can tell Konqueror to use File Roller, Ark, or whatever. PDFs are supported by numerous apps: KPDF, GPDF, Ghostview, and others. I'm not sure what's available instead of Zempt, but I'd be surprised if there weren't quite a few similar apps.

To date, the only Windows app I can't replace with a Linux app is Microsoft Streets and Trips.

by Deane,   April 2, 2004 10:58 AM  

Wow, FTP support in KDE is really good. Every single app essentially has FTP support. This is really the way it should be. Kate is henceforth a perfect replacement for Edit Plus.

As Dave Ziegler put it: "Bill, you are dead to me."

by Joe,   April 2, 2004 12:59 PM  

KDE has a lot of very slick features that aren't always immediately evident like that. Here's a good tips/tricks page that I posted in an earlier Gadgetopia entry: http://www.newtolinux.org.uk/wiki/index.php/KDE%20is%20so%20cool%20because... Some of the features described are new in KDE 3.2

Fedora Core 1 still uses KDE 3.1, but FC2 is just around the corner, and it looks like it will include GNOME 2.6 and KDE 3.2

by Dave,   April 2, 2004 8:05 PM  

Well, Bill isn't quite dead yet, but he's definitely being handed his hat (pun intended). I'm running Red Hat 9.0 about 90% of the time, and Joe has been helping me find replacement applications for my Window$ progz.

So far, I'm completely happy with Evolution as a replacement for Outlook, but it really needs a built-in tool for importing a .PST file. I'm still trying to get used to Firefox vs. IE6 (why it doesn't have a File...Open [web location], as there is in both IE and Mozilla, I will probably never understand). My biggest concern up front was hardware compatibility, especially with things like my Olympus C3000-Zoom digital camera, but everything has been working great.

Which brings to mind the GIMP. Dave does not care for the GIMP. Give me Photoshop any day.

I kind of miss Return To Castle Wolfenstein, but I haven't looked for a Linux version, yet.

by Joe,   April 6, 2004 8:54 AM  

GIMP 2.0 is much much much better, especially in terms of the interface. If there aren't yet Fedora builds, there likely will be soon. id Software has in fact released a Linux-native version of Wolfenstein.

You can get them here: http://www.3dgamers.com/games/returnwolfenstein/#filelist

and here's an FAQ: http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/wolf/

I'm told that UT2004 supports Linux straight out of the box.

by Jason L Michael,   September 18, 2004 12:40 PM  

For text editing with FTP built in, try jEdit. It's so nice to save directly to FTP without any intermediate steps!

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