FC6 Im impressed

[Rodney Mitchell]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 14:00 +1030, Adam Hawes wrote:
> > 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.


Yep!

> > 
> > 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.
> 

Ok, that's right I remember now...it was the GIGA card not being
utilised properly?! I have 1 on the FC4 box but it is attached to
AIRSTREAM instead of the LAN....d'oh! When the LAN turns 1000 it may be
changed!  ;)


> > 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


Here, here, I've done a fair bit of fiddle with Mandrake, Ubuntu, Gentoo
and Suse, and Fedora does it 4 me!  

Regs, Rod.