FC6 Im impressed

[Adam Hawes]

> Well after a forced reinstall (my FC5 system went belly up) after being 
> possibly cracked, I did an install of FC6, I must say that I didn't 
> expect much of an upgrade but there seems to be a lot of improvements in 
> smoothness and responsiveness.

I'm running FC6 at home on my file server.  It runs well - I'm still not
happy with the way it installs and starts a lot of services even with a
fairly minimal install.  I still found portmap installed and started
even though I didn't need or select it. 

The Fedora team seem to put their faith in the fact that they allow you
to turn on a reasonable firewall and have SELinux installed rather than
going the full step to really secure the system.

SELinux is a PITA on Fedora though.  Samba didnt' work at all even
though the SELinux policy was configured to allow it to do what it
wanted.  A quick look in the audit log revealed that it was doing a
stack of things they hadn't thought of when they configured SELinux.

Since it's not a public machine I gave up and just set SELinux to
permissive mode.  I might get around to actually configuring it, but I
don't see the point in SELinux for most "desktop" users.

I really like the LVM browser they ship with FC6.  It shows where your
logical volumes are actually stored on the disk.  It's interesting to
see the volumes are fragmented some.

Funnily enough FC6 mostly fixed my network slowness problems.  It's
still not as quick as I'd like but it's better than 8M/sec.

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