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:Tux:Tops: A Cold Look at Fedora Core 4
Tux:Tops: A Cold Look at Fedora Core 4
Jul 5, 2005, 10 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (7506 reads)

"Fedora Core 4 (FC4) is the fourth release of Red Hat's open community project and was released a few weeks ago. I tried both the DVD and the CD version for x86, on the LinuxCertified.com laptop, model LC2430. This is a 2.8 GHz P4, 512 MBs of RAM, 1400x1050 LCD, Intel onboard AC97 sound card, National Semiconductor NIC, 40 GB drive, combo drive and an ATi Radeon 9200 Mobility 64 MB.

"All previous versions of Fedora have worked out of the box in this configuration, but it seems that the latest versions of the kernel has a bug with certain LCD displays where the installation screen won't initialized and load without beforehand adding the 'nofb' or the 'vga=971' command in the kernel configuration line. The latest Ubuntu and Debian seem to have the same problem too..."

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The memory complaints in this article ar ...   About his memory complaints   
Cybertron
Jul 5, 2005, 14:09:19
 
> "About 230 MBs of RAM were used on a c ...   shamar@maxmail.com   
Shamar
Jul 5, 2005, 22:22:26
 
The Linux kernel will use any memory not ...   Bogus Memory Usage complaint   
Tim
Jul 5, 2005, 23:07:15
 
I have a Linux Certified LC2410, very si ...   My lc2410   
Greg
Jul 6, 2005, 02:33:01
 
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