Yesterday I upgraded my workstation, a Dell Optiplex 755, to Fedora Core 11. I downloaded the net install CD iso and burned it to disk. The installation was super easy. I am a big fan of mjmwired.net and I use his install guide.

What Worked

The part that pleased me much was that the dual screen problems seem to be sorted out. I have two Dell 17 inch LCD monitors running on an ATI card at 1280X1024. Using the Gnome Display Preferences app I was able to configure my dual screen system in a few second.

screenshot-display_preferences.png

 

Quite pretty out of the box. Here is a screen shot: Click the thumb to see a bigger version.

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What Didn’t Work

*Evolution Exchange MAPI – The new project to get evolution to sync better with Exchange servers. I was hopeful but alas I get an error. Maybe in time.

 

*Monodevelop for VB.NET

When installing Monodevelop, if you want to compile asp.net projects you will need several packages:

# yum list mono*

Installed Packages

mono-addins.i586

mono-basic.i586

mono-core.i586

mono-data.i586

mono-data-sqlite.i586

mono-extras.i586

mono-nunit22.i586

mono-web.i586

mono-winforms.i586

monodevelop.i586

monodoc.i586

 

 

You must include mono-basic to get the vbnc compiler. This package is not a dependency of monodevelop.