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After hearing about my favorite Linux distro, CentOS, being behind on all its security and updates because 1 out of the 2 maintainers got married, I decided that it was time to try a new Linux distro.  There’s just something wrong when a project solely depends on 2 people to maintain it when over 100,000 people use CentOS.  I am thoroughly disappointed in CentOS and they have lost my confidence in them.  Now, since Fedora is made by the same group that makes Red Hat, I figured that it would be similar enough to crossover and adapt.  WRONG!

Here is my experience with the Fedora 10 i686 LiveCD:

1) Graphical LiveCD literally takes about 10-15 minutes to boot into the desktop.  Too long and slow.
2) Where’s the Fedora 10 LiveCD text install?  According to the official documentation, you just type at the boot: linux text after pressing ESC at the GRUB-like menu.  Guess what?  I get an error about the kernel not finding “linux text” on the LiveCD.   Now according to this release notes, you could also type in liveinst at the console.  I have not tried this on the LiveCD.  The Fedora 10 DVD has the boot linux text option.
3) I was able to install the Fedora 10 LiveCD first time through the graphical installer.  After running yum to do some updates, the updates stopped on the kernel update package.  Not a good place to stall.  From then on, it was yum hell.  yum kept reporting that the new kernel was installed, but this was nowhere to be seen in /boot.  I had to run rpm -e –justdb –nodeps kernel to “remove” it.  Then I tried yum reinstall kernel, and I got some weird errors about multiple instances being allowed (?).  At this point, I decided to reinstall Fedora 10 again.
4) I sat there again for about 10-15 minutes waiting to boot into the LiveCD desktop.  This time I do exactly the same partitioning and install of Fedora 10.  The moment the installer goes to format my partition, I get a “major” crash with some un-human readable error log.  The log is about 5-pages long.  I reboot and try the installer again.  FAIL again!  What is going on?!??
5) Does not notice or detect the kernel-PAE, so Fedora 10 LiveCD does not recognize that I have more than 4GB of memory on my machine.

Currently I am having a pain in the ass problem with yum and trying to update my kernel in the complete Fedora 10 i686 DVD installation.  I get this error: error: %post(kernel-PAE-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686) scriptlet failed, signal 2.  What the heck does that mean?

In conclusion, I suggest and recommend that users get the full blown Fedora 10 DVD.  The LiveCD is broken and missing features.