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Fedora Core 3: Worth The Upgrade?

Posted by timothy on from the embarrassment-of-riches dept.

Chris writes "With new features such as SELinux, GNOME 2.8, KDE 3.3, Evolution 2.0, Remote Desktop, Helix Player, and of course Firefox, it may be worth your while to make the switch. At OSDir our screenshot tour of Fedora Core 3 takes you through boot, installation, desktop, taskbar, menus, configuration, and the new features of this new release. Our Core 3 screenshot tours have taken you through Test 1, 2, 3, and now the final release. Check it out."

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  1. slashdot effect by comwiz56 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Very nice... put links to 10 screenshots on the front page of slashdot. The servers at a crawl, I ber its running Fedora Core 3.

  2. Re:Screenshot tour? by Mohammed+Al-Sahaf · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    FC is based on 10 generations of RedHat releasesSurely thats a reason NOT to use it :-)

    --
    Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
  3. X still sucks by barrkel · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    FC3 is the first install of Linux I've taken seriously for evaluation since I installed RedHat 3.0.3. X still sucks.

    • Windows aren't modal - it isn't clear that buttons have 'taken effect' until 5 or so seconds have passed and a window pops up.

    • Everything is too big. Toolbars, icons, menu items, window borders. 1024x768 feels like Windows on 640x480.

    • Graphics drivers are buggy for the graphics card on the box I'm running it on (Intel i815 integrated graphics).

    • Two of my personally most commonly used programs from Cygwin don't come with the distribution: fortune and rxvt.

    • Stuff I've come to expect to be distributed in "behind the curve" Debian (e.g. fpc, www.freepascal.org), don't come.

    • For 6 GB of "stuff", there doesn't seem to be much included (I don't generally use X for reasons above).



  4. Re:SuSE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    lachlan76... have you considered using Windows? It's a much better OS than Linux, it's supported by a major corporation, and has integrated support for nearly every piece of PC hardware on the market. I'd give it a shot, Windows XP offers stability and increased performance over any Linux distro.

    Also, just be aware, if you do decide to stick with Linux stay away from Gentoo and BSD. BSD is quickly galloping down the path to oblivion, and Gentoo is chasing as quickly as it possibly can.

    Switch to Windows as quickly as you can, it runs Firefox, and the next Longhorn release will have a rlational filesystem, something the filthy Linux community could never produce on their own.

    - Willey Gates 3.0