FC6 Im impressed

[Rodney Mitchell]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 11:42 +1030, Adam Hawes wrote:
> > 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.


Just a couple of observations: 

SElinux, there seems to be a general consensus to disable it.

Re the ethernet speed, I'm surprised as between FC4 and FC5, using
either "scp" or GUI FTP the rate is a constant 10.4 (?) MB/s, the only
time it's slower is when there is a stack of network activity or...when
there is windoze box in the transfer...then the rate falls
dramatically! 

Samba, yeah, not happy too, FC5 will not mount samba shares from the FC4
box, it's using CIFS and there seems to be little useful info on Google,
the assumption is...to me...that the FC4 should be upgraded!

With so many different distros it is no wonder that windoze users are
sniggering, the amount of time spent farting around far outweighs the
cost of a XP PRO CD, but the end result IS far more satisfying. :)
If only a few were dropped and the energy release put into the fwer
remaining...

Regards, Rod.