Fedora-18 -- how to install?

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Mark Lane <lmlane-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>

| The other issue I had though probably not unique to FC18, was
| installing the fglrx drivers.

My understanding is that Fedora isn't interested in supporting
non-free drivers.  I also understand that ATI's binary drivers don't
quickly follow kernel changes.  Since Fedora trys to adopt upstream
kernels promptly, you end up with a problem.  One that recurs.

Ubuntu does try to support non-free drivers.  If you want to use the
nVidia or ATI video drivers, try Ubuntu before Fedora.  That's what I
do: on my desktop, I use open drivers and Fedora; on my media
machines, I use Ubuntu.

Even so, Ubuntu still has problems.  "Jockey" completely screwed up on
my nettop with an AMD E-350.  For about a year!
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-common/+bug/873058>

| It didn't stop there. I have steam installed and wanted to try and run
| Counter Strike on my new FC18 box. It claimed it couldn't find one of
| the libgl files. After 2 hours of search, I found out that the problem
| was I only installed the 64 bit version of libgl and it was looking
| for the 32Bit version.

Fedora is really not designed for binaries from other origins.  It
works with source code from other sources.

I'd have imagined Counter Strike and Steam were built primarily for
Ubuntu (I haven't checked) since that is the most popular distro and
is more binary-driver friendly that Fedora.

Luckily I'm not a gamer.  Steam would be temmpting.  But I don't trust
it from a security standpoint.

| My current procedure for updating my kernel is:
| 
| 1) Install new kernel and kernel sources
| 2) Reboot to boot to runlevel 3
| 3) Install akmod-fglrx
| 4) Rebuilt fglrx kernel modules
| 5) uninstall akmod-fglrx
| 6) reboot
| 
| Do you expect some noobie to do that?

Thanks very much for the roadmap.
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