Regarding Installation of Invalidated OS (Fedora Core 8) On Dell Power Edge 2900

[John Hodrien]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, J. Epperson wrote:

> It's not necessarily so that one would have fewer problems with 10 than 8.
> There have been several reported problems with Fedora 10 on some Dell
> hardware that F8 ran fine on.  And Fedora 8 has gdmsetup, which is missing
> in 9 and 10.  So if you want a login screen that doesn't offer up all the
> usernames on the system, you're out of luck with F10, currently.

You're not *forced* to use the current gdm.  I've seen F9 perfectly happy with
a downgraded gdm.  Or you could, I assume, always use kdm/xdm/whateverdm.

> But since the machine has no OS on it, why not try 10, then back off to 8
> if you don't like the results?  I'd stay away from F9, too much crappy
> stuff in it.

I'd install either Fedora 10 or CentOS5.

jh

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