Fedora Core 3 Test 2 Available

p0 writes "Fedora Core 3 Test 2 is now available for downloading. The official .torrent tracker is here. It is also interesting that the Fedora Steering Committee has transferred Fedora Core 1 into the Fedora Legacy Project. If you would like to know the proposed development and release schedule for Fedora Core 3, you will find it here."

Comments

Obsolescence

[alatesystems]

I can't believe how fast the FC1 has gone into legacy. I know this isn't RH supported, but I think I'm going to have to switch to an RHEL rebuild like WhiteBox.

For the interested, we use WhiteBox at work on one of our AMD 64 bit servers and it works like a champ. They added yum, but other than that it's binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Chris

Re:Obsolescence

[dtfinch]

I use CentOS. It's nearly identical to WhiteBox, but with seemingly better community support, rather than having the appearance of being a one man project.

Re:Obsolescence

[Godeke]

Fedora Core has the stated goal of being a development operating system for those who wish to be on the edge of development, not a stable operating system for running your enterprise. The fact that you would have to "switch" to something else tells me you are using Core for the wrong purposes.

Core works great for my desktop, because it doesn't matter if it gets blown away (everything is mirrored to my server) and I do want to work with the latest-and-maybe-greatest. For other applications, *please* switch to something that has the intent of being a platform and not a development base.

Re:Alternative download location

[angrykeyboarder]

Thanks to "Trustworthy Computing" Microsoft won't be offering FC3 via the windows update mechanisim. Enterprisze users are free to download it from our Enterprise site, fedora.micsosloth.com

chock full of goodies:

[t482]

GCC 3.4.x - Precompiled Headers (Speed up) and C++ improvements (and more coming)
Kernel 2.6.8
KDE 3.3 - which includes a much improved KDE PIM groupwhere packages.
X.org x11 6.8 - with translucency & Drop shadows
GNOME 2.8 - New Admin stuff and a lot of other features
Evolution 2.0 - Offline IMAP & WebCal support
SELinux
IIIMF - Standardized Asian character input
Wow!. Torrents are available

is it faster or slower than 2?

[josepha48]

I upgraded from fedora core 1 to fedora core 2 and gnome desktop got much much slower. So did kde. I also noticed that they switched to xorg. xorg in fedora core 2 is slow. No really really slow, and used up about 72 megs of ram. Run that with Gnome and a gnome panel or two and mozilla firebird, and I saw about 80% or my memory being sucked out the window, and I have 512 megs of ram / 1.2Ghz AMD CPU. I'll probably try fedora core 3 when it comes out, but if it is like this, I may switch to using gentoo on my desktop. Fedora does not make it easy to use the openbox window manager ( read gdm does not allow it as a selection ). They do not make it easy to use any of the other window managers that they include, except windowmaker. Why include this stuff it you are going to make it more difficult for someone to switch to it. It only confuses the end user.

I thought I had a fast PC then I installed fedora core 2 and it seems as slow as my old P233 with 64megs of ram did.

I'm not trying to be a troll, or flamebait, I'm just kinda supprised that the performance is as bad as it is, on my system. I'd really like to know if anyone else is experiencing performance degradation with thier fc2 system and what they did to overcome it?