Fedora Core 2 Test 2 Released

Kalak writes "Fedora Core 2 Test 2, part of the project's goal to 'work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software', has just been released - this test release 'is specifically designed for SELinux testing, as well as testing the 2.6 kernel, GNOME 2.5, and KDE 3.2.1.' Get a copy from one of the mirrors or grab a copy via BitTorrent. You probably want the binary only Torrent."

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WTF?

[irix]

Who upmodded this troll?

work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software

That is part of the original mission statement for the Fedora Project. As in:

The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year with a public release schedule. The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in the building of Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than was possible in Red Hat Linux. By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system that uses free software development practices and is more appealing to the open source community.

WTF does that have to do with being based on RedHat? How does it indicate RedHat ever having lied to anyone?

But at least I now know that Fedora Core 1 is not a complete, general purpose operating system built exclusively from open source software.

If you knew the first thing about FC1 you'd know it did.

Re:Yipee

[swillden]

Now we can use the lk 2.6 without having to add homebrew packages

Yeah, well, if you were using Debian, you'd have had apt-get installable 2.6 kernels since the late pre-releases six or seven months ago.

Why do you guys insist on using such an ancient, out-of-date distribution, anyway? ;-)

My own Fedora experience

[ajutla]

I haven't tried either of these test releases for FC2; however, I installed FC1 not too long ago. I was relatively new to Linux and so I was looking for a nice distro that was easy to get started with. So I installed Fedora, and, er, wasn't all that impressed. It took about three times longer to load than the Windows XP I was dual-booting with, and the system was sluggish. The Gnome and KDE provided were extremely weird and nonstandard. KDE seemed broken in a few ways--some things, like having zoomable icons, simply did not work, and I didn't and don't know why. Gnome installs with a weird, nonstandard setup that looks exactly like KDE. Yeah, I know it's easy to fix, but it sure confused me at first--I was a newbie could see no apparent difference between the two environments :). Worse than that, though, was that the add/remove programs utility was badly broken and did not list, for example, rpms that you have installed manually--it only lists whether some of the stuff that comes with Fedora is installed. There was no mp3 support out of the box, there was no ntfs support out of the box, and a lot of things seemed buggy. up2date crashed every time I tried to use it. I came away from Fedora, in short, with an extremely poor impression of Linux--it was slower than my Windows setup, less stable, what the heck were those Linux people talking about? Then I installed Debian, which suits me better--it seems to be much less "heavy" with resources than Fedora, boots way way faster than Windows does, has a nice interface (aptitude) whereby I choose exactly what packages are installed, and, in general, seems a bit nicer. I'm not trying to troll or anything here, because, in general, I rather like redhat. I used redhat 7 some years ago (hadn't installed it myself; on a friend's PC) and enjoyed it, and Fedora is nice, too, but it's just not for me. I just hope that for Fedora Core 2 they fix some of the more problematic bugs and make the system run a bit more smoothly :)