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Fedora Core 3: What's in store?

Posted by timothy on from the lots-of-shots dept.

Chris writes "To give you a feel for what to expect in Core 3, we've done 120 screenshots of a full installation of Fedora Core 3 Test 3. Our screenshots include Gnome, KDE, and XPce interfaces. This is the last planned test release before the final release, scheduled for November 1."

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  1. looks just like 2 to me by i621148 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    what reason do we have for upgrading now? these rapid release schedules are TOO rapid. i have stopped even looking for binary rpms anymore.

    1. Re:looks just like 2 to me by tolan-b · · Score: 2, Informative

      Dag supprts RHEL.

    2. Re:looks just like 2 to me by Smylers · · Score: 2, Insightful
      what reason do we have for upgrading now? these rapid release schedules are TOO rapid.

      Another reason for frequent releases is to cope with new hardware. The reason I'm running Fedora at all is because there's no chance of Debian Woody installing on kit I bought this year.

      So even if there's no reason for any existing installations to be upgraded, having frequent releases helps those who are installing on to newly purchased hardware.

      Smylers
    3. Re:looks just like 2 to me by invisibastard · · Score: 2, Informative

      "dag" is an rpm repository:
      http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/
      This link gets you up and running. Basically you add the repo to your apt sources list.
      http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#B
      Hope that helps.

    4. Re:looks just like 2 to me by Smylers · · Score: 2, Informative
      having more releases doesn't force you to upgrade more often. What it does do is give you freedom to upgrade at times you choose.
      Actually, it does. Did you know that FC1 is already going into legacy mode, meaning no more updates for it?

      The principle of having frequent releases doesn't force upgrades in itself; a distrubutor dropping support does that, regardless of release frequency, and it isn't a reason for stating that frequent releases are bad.

      Yes, I do know that Red Hat don't support Fedora 1 any more, but it is supported by The Fedora Legacy Project. So nobody has to upgrade: they can just get their updates from there instead.

      Smylers
  2. What awesome screenshots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Number 3 is definately the best.

    What did they do, go a screen grab every time the screen changed?

  3. Irony by MarkedMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    OK, this will get me modded to troll, but isn't there something so... Linux-like... about someone very enthusiastically trumpeting an information page that consists of (drum roll) 120 unlabeled links...