Fedora: First Impressions

Tuesday, May 04, 2004, at 08:40AM

By Eric Richardson

Last night I got everything installed, played for a minute, and then ran off to do other things, so today is really my first full experience. First impressions, though, are pretty mixed. Note that I am using FC2 Test 3, so I expect a bit of abnormality related to that.

The first-time bootup interface, which scrolls the system messages in a nice GUI, was very cool. But then for subsequent boots it disappeared. What's up with that? I liked it.

In FC2 Test3 all the system-config-whatever tools are broken unless run as root. That's annoying. I'm running up2date right now and it better fix that.

acpid is installed by default, but not really set up to do anything other than call shutdown on power button press. Lid events would have been pretty clutch.

As it is lid events are troubling. I shut the lid and it turned off my screen, but then it didn't turn it back on when the lid was reopened. It seemed to do the same thing later when it was left sitting long enough to cut off the screen.

Like I said, I'm running up2date right now and am also compiling my own kernel so that I can have suspend to disk and such. We'll see how that does.