Fedora Core 2 Review

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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running it right now

[codepunk]

I really like it alot, so far no problems. The only thing I don't like about a fedora box is that I have to hunt around for weeks to get the necessary multimedia stuff in it. It ships with full blown mozilla, that will be gotten rid of here shortly in favor of firefox. Great distro but alot of post install work to make it into a usable desktop.

Re:Fedora Core 2 wins the vote of this Debianite

[el-spectre]

This isn't a matter of philosophy, it's a matter of legality. MP3 has licensing costs. So do most video formats. To get many windows media movies to play you have to borrow DLLs from windows.

If Fedora shipped this stuff w/o paying the licensing, they'd get their ass sued off.

If you want a free (beer) distro, you can't have costly items included. Besides, it's easy (run a specific command easy, not 'tweak the kernel and recompile' easy) to install mp3 support, mplayer, etc.

You either pay with money or your time. Want the distro free? then you gotta learn to install the extra stuff.