FC6 Im impressed

[Adam Hawes]

> Just a couple of observations: 
> 
> SElinux, there seems to be a general consensus to disable it.

It's a useful tool.  If it were configured properly it would catch a lot
of things that aren't otherwise caught.  Its audit logs do cause some
performance hit, since it is auditing every single (or almost every)
system call.

> 
> 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! 

Look in the archive :) I was running Ubuntu and could not get decent
speed with my gig network.  My old cheapie 100M card performed way
better.

> 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...

Unfortunately and fortunately, as the case may be, the Linux world is
about being able to make your own distro and choice.  It's great to have
so many choices.  It's a bit sad that from an end user perspective they
all look much the same with their Gnome or KDE installs.  Most users
coming from Windows land don't understand that the look of the GUI is
not even half of it.

I settled on and recomend Fedora some time ago and thought I'd try
Ubuntu a while back.  I'm back to sticking with Fedora 'cos it works
well for what I and a lot of people I know want.

Cheers,
A