Tux:Tops: A Cold Look at Fedora Core 4

“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,
1400×1050 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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