Fedora 10 KDE on VirtualBox
Installing Fedora 10 on VirtualBox was a snap. The installer was straight foward and absolutely painless. The live cd worked flawlessly. The installer did not ask any unusual questions and partitioning was handled smoothly.
On reboot, Fedora asked some simple questions about set-up. I was surprised that the time was wrong, however, and I set up the time servers using NTP, which isn’t very newb friendly, but it was still simple.
As I was logging in and writing my review notes, I had typed my username and password at the login screen but did not hit enter; so I was pleasantly surprised that it timed out my login and cleared my password to prevent unauthorized access.
Annoyingly, Firefox was not installed by default, so I found the Add and Remove Software program in System Settings. For some reason, everytime I would hover over a program I wanted to add, it showed a minus sign over the plus sign, which was very confusing. I think that the GUI for the interface here could be improved. Also, what is up with Firefox’s Website Services Agreement? I do not like EULAs in my Linux, thank you very much.
The system did its security updates nicely as well.
I tried to get mouse integration working but Guest Additions was not supported natively, so I tried to install it from scratch, with no luck, even after installing Linux Kernel Headers and Build files as well as gcc. Why isn’t VirtualBox better supported? Boo.
Lack of VirtualBox Additions is a killer for me. I want to be able to use Fedora fullscreen and completely integrated into my XP environment, but alas, no such luck, especially since it seems to be such a nice distro.
