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Fedora Core 2 Review

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the distro-wars dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linuxlookup.com staff member Rich Hughes posted his thoughts on the latest Fedora release with this Core 2 Review. "Fedora Core 2 is the newest release from The Distro Formerly Known As RedHat. Updates include the 2.6 kernel, KDE 3.2, Gnome 2.6, X.org replacing Xfree86 and numerous package updates. Having played around with SuSE 9.1, Arch .6 and Slackware 9 with the 2.6 kernel, I was interested in seeing how the Fedora team did with this release.""

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  1. Re:Don't install yet by shaitand · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Believe it or not the primary purpose of using linux isn't to boot windows. Out of every possible thing that could break windows booting is probably dead last on the priority list.

  2. Re:Fedora Core 2 wins the vote of this Debianite by Kethinov · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    That, and the fact that FC is actually _more_ free than Debian following the prompt removal of all MP3 and similar tained code leaves me asking:
    What more could you want from a distro? The latest FC2 installer was particularly stunning, making LVM2 setup trivial for the first time. This is really what Debian should have been.
    That statement is self-contradictory. Lack of support for MP3 is a failing of Fedora, not an advantage. So when you ask "what more could you want from a distro?" I say how about some built-in MP3 support? How about automatically installing the drivers for my nvidia card? How about coming pre packaged with mplayer? If Linux is EVER going to stop being a niche OS, it's going to have to find a way to legally ship with corporate video drivers, mp3/divx, etc.

    Now don't get me wrong here, Fedora's "let's create an operating system exclusively from free software" is a wonderfully noble goal! But there are no accelerated open source drivers for most people's gpus because nvidia/ati don't release specs. And mp3/divx is too popular already to just disregard when you build an operating system.

    Fedora is beautiful, but it will never be perfect until it sacrifices it's free software purity for overall better quality.
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  3. Re:here's my review...Annoyed! by Hatta · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    All I want to do is play some damn mp3s on this damn thing. Apparently they disabled firewire in the final fc2 because it "doesn't work." What the hell? I think this is a very important feature and if this got out I wonder what else they left out.

    Perhaps you should have encoded your music in a format that was free and open, and not restricted by patents.

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  4. Re:Default Gnome theme? by /dev/trash · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nope sorry you're stuck with it forever.

  5. MP3 by ericlp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I used the first Fedora. Liked it. Then I went to play some MP3s. Fedora made XMMS puke up a message with some BS about not supporting playing of MP3s. I stopped using Fedora right then. I could have hacked the problem, but decided not too. The principle of the thing bugged me.