Fedora Core Release 3 Released 502
anyweb writes "Fedora Core Release 3 is out now, Heidelberg, 2.6.9-1.667 kernel, Firefox included ! Gnome 2.8 and more.
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some screenshots" New release includes Gnome 2.8, KDE 3.3, Kernel 2.6.9, Firefox PR1, Thunderbird 0.8, Ximian Evolution 2.0 and more. Here is a Mirror List and Bit Torrent
Time to Upgrade (Score:4, Interesting)
Competition (Score:5, Interesting)
So.... (Score:5, Interesting)
Enterprise? (Score:5, Interesting)
Monitor Swarm Speed? (Score:1, Interesting)
Fedora Core 3 Thoughts (Score:5, Interesting)
Inpressions from the test releases
-selinux is enabled by default & *just works*
-firefox (finally) is included in Fedora Core proper
-automounting bahavior of usb keys, external HDDs etc. is greatly improved
-Totem has been added
-Yum has been greatly improved (faster)
-works well on the two laptops I tested it on
(IBM T20, CPQ Armada M700
-Better wifi support built in
Firewire Support? (Score:4, Interesting)
Question: (Score:3, Interesting)
Thanx.
How it compares to Ubuntu? (Score:1, Interesting)
I've been wanting to try a linux desktop for a while and I had a mixed opinion with Fedora Core 1, not I'm not sure wich one of the two to pick - since I don't have that much time to commit, I can't try both and compare
Fedora (Score:2, Interesting)
Wierd since, Fedora decided to copy Debian's mistaken policy of offering three software troves called stable,testing and unstable.
When are they going to learn, users want ONE package tree, with the ability to migrate between versions and patches.
SURE, you'll say. Fedora is just Red Hat's loss leader product to wedge people into RHEL.
But wait until someone who has a superior understanding of the marketplace comes along and evaporates RH's marketshare. Then they will wish they'd had a better view of the market than 'per-ass proprietary enterprise linux'.
Otherwise a solid release from the folks at RH. Release Notes [redhat.com].
Re:firefox pr1 (Score:5, Interesting)
After the final of Firefox has actually been released, and been through the Fedora QA process, a simple "yum -y update" will get it for you.
Everyone has a schedule that they like to stick to.
Soko
Vector Graphics in Linux. (before Windows, btw) (Score:1, Interesting)
Vector-based graphics games like solitare. I know it's a small thing, but it's sooo purty.
Well for a card game. It's a small thing, but it's going to be cool once people start porting things wholesale over to vector graphics once it gets established.
Imagine: No more conflict between resolution/text size/desktop space.
Also for the programmers in here check out the new support for dbus and HAL in Gnome. Shadows of things to come in future revisions.
It's not a huge difference over 2.6, but it's a nice improvement with lots and lots of little refinements.
Re:fiiiinally (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:firefox pr1 (Score:2, Interesting)
Unless they're planning a synchonized release of the binaries or something for both Windows and Linux.
Time for standard kernels in these releases (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Fedora Core 3 Thoughts (Score:4, Interesting)
Yes, that's a flame and a troll. But in all seriousness, can anyone point me to an explanation as to why yum was chosen as the update tool, over say something like apt-rpm? Are there any honest-to-goodness technical reasons why yum is the better choice? Or is it just inertia at this point?
2.3GB? (Score:3, Interesting)
Two things, please answer. (Score:3, Interesting)
Slashdot is now using banner advertisements that load Java. This came as quite a surprise to me, as my browser suddenly started paging out to disk, and freaked out for almost 5 minutes while it loaded Java, and ran a component that promptly crashed Java. That's just a comment. If anyone in admin cares, please fix it. Java is bad. Still.
Second:
Any suggestions on properly using apt-get to upgrade from FC1 to FC2 or FC3? I finally got apt-get to upgrde from X11 to XORG, and that caused my entire X system to not function.. so, looking for some help with the rest. lol
Re:Time for standard kernels in these releases (Score:5, Interesting)
Question: Mandrake or Fedora? (Score:2, Interesting)
I desire to use linux 100% on my laptop. I've been a windoze peon for eons and I'm slowing becoming familiar with the console. I installed Mandrake 10.1 Community on my laptop and have been running it for 2 weeks and have done a lot with it (nVidia driver install, Samba shares, KDE customization, etc). The problem is that my Mandrake KDE (3.2) has many mysterious crashes of certain apps (konqueror) and many fustrating slowdowns for no good reason.
I like mandrake's system control panels and it detects all my strange usb hardware but these crashes are all too random. Would Fedora be a better bet?
Re:Fedora Core 3 Thoughts (Score:3, Interesting)
Apt for RPM supports everything RPM and Fedora need, so yum is just different for the sake of being different. Yet another Linux distro fork. If Fedora would go apt, then that would do allot to mend the rift between RPM/DEB based distros, as mostly, from the end user's point of view, installing, removing, and updating packages is done through a GUI like Synaptic.
yum is not the right direction for Fedora. apt is a better standard, as it makes Linux distros as a whole more standardized for the user.
Re:Fedora Core Release 3 Released? (Score:3, Interesting)
Fedora Core Release 3 is a noun. The verb "to release" conjugated into the past tense of "released" was then applied to the noun Fedora Core Release 3. This is entirely correct and non-redundant. The fact that the noun uses the word release in its name has nothing to do with having the past tense action "released" performed upon it.
Also, a "Hot Water Heater" is non-redundant as well. Hot Water does not, in my universe, magically instantiate itself as hot water. Instead it starts out as water, is heated in a vessel of some sort (mine is a metal cylinder lined with glass), then held at temperature until requested somewhere downline in the plumbing system.
Yes, this is very pedantic of me, however seeing something marked +5 funny when in fact its more like +5 ridiculous stupid, annoys the shit out of me.
I suppose there's the possibility the parent is an attempt humor. If so, well, perhaps it should've been funny.
Re:Multiple - 8 OC-192's available at SC2004 (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.infosatellite.com/news/2004/09/p1309
More importantly. SC is one of the places each year that Networking companies use to test new gear. The convention encourages people to use the bandwidth for anything as long as its legal since they are demoing equipment and gear.
I say if they have the bandwidth available for this week...why not use it.
It's not like I'm trying to get anybody to buy anything
Re:NFS (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Time to Upgrade (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Time to Upgrade (Score:4, Interesting)
I trust them over you.