[Ambassadors] Fedora 13 Release Parties - Questions and Marketing Collateral

Ben Williams jbwillia at math.vt.edu
Wed Jun 9 12:28:18 UTC 2010


ok all of this is covered in the Installation guide and release notes

where you using a livecd or the dvd

the default for the dvd is to install openoffice unless you deselect the 
office in the installer.


On 06/08/2010 09:04 PM, Steven James Drinnan wrote:
> My Thoughts,
>
> Setup:
>
> A real headache, I decided to use the DVD, as I am a programmer I
> selected 'Programming' tried to select 'graphical' but could not.
> No option (unless you check advanced) to install KDE or other window
> manager. For the inexperienced this would be appear that out distro does
> not have as many options as the others.
>
> Default apps: A laugh, it was like installing windows, no open office.
> no gthumb. (shot-well is great for one by one photos but try and print a
> page of photos).
>
> Time to install: 3 hours after sorting out all the additional apps i
> needed. Compared to F12 this is about twice as long.
>
> For me a big thumbs down not for the features but the installation
> defaults. And after install setup.
>
>
> Steven
>
>
>    

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