fedora red hat problems

footballstevo75

footballstevo75

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so it brings me to this text screen where i have to log in, i logged in as root, then made my own user, but i can never get it to boot to the graphical enviroment, startx doesnt do anything

is their another linux distro (not live) that will run better in the lappy in my sig?
 
There are a few that will do just nicely. Fedora was a pain in the..... when run here while dual OSing one drive just to get one or two needed files onto the drive. AND THEN one day it actually ran. I was unable to get ubuntu on with a small distro there. PCLinux is a newer one. Slackware, Mandrake, SUSe, Mepis, and Debian are the more popular for experienced users. And then there was puppy for the newbie. That DamnSmallLinux too.
 
I must say i had lots of problems with fedora it by default installed the gui on mine and i tried following all the steps to go to the regular interface and it couldnt find the directory's that were made when i went into the terminal to try and turn it off sheesh man. I just gave up and took linux off of my box and now just boot to vista and have vmware to run xppro at the same time.
 
I was under the impression you needed a subscription to download the beta release of Vista until I saw a new download link at the Windows site. I spent several days trying to get Core 4 to run after repeated installs. More then one down of each iso plus new burns of the installation cds still saw nothing until one last ditch effort saw that one or two stubborness of those files let go. Gee all of a sudden Fedora was up and running. Core 5 wasn't out at the time to see if that would see needed improvements.
 
There are several distributions along with various modifications since Linux is an open source OS where improvements and new features can be added at times. Slackware, Debian, Mandrake, SUSe, Fedora, Gentoo, ubuntu sees more favor over Gentoo, Puppy for newbies, you name it are often referred to as the "flavor of the month" by some articles.

Since Linux is a free OS unless you pay the cost of prepared cds or dvds at the cost of the disks themselves plus shipping. You do have to spend a good deal of time downloading the one or more iso disk images to burn them to cds or dvds with the larger distros.
 
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