My Fedora 10 Experience.

I got my new Compaque C60 laptop with AMD Athlon 64 bit dual core processor, 3GB RAM, NVidia Geforce 8200 Graphics, 160 GB Hard Drive and 16" widescreen monitor. And I installed Fedora 10 X86_64 in that.

At first it did not detect the graphics card and thus I had to install it in text mode. After which I downloaded the NVidia graphics driver and installed it and the graphics started working fine. I cannot live without music :D, so I first installed the livna repository, and installed xine-extras-nonfree with yum. Then I installed mplayer.

Since I am a java programmer, I installed jdk and netbeans. There was one thing very annoying though, Sun's jdk for 64 bit does not have a 64 bit browser plugin. I'm still waiting for its availability.

The webcam does get detected and configured automatically. I can use my webcam with "Cheese Webcam Booth" and with mplayer, But, still I cannot use it with kopete.

The graphical network manager does not work properly, it sets the default gateway same as the subnet musk. So I ran system-config-network from the console.

The overall experience with Fedora 10 is good untill now.