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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. Re:Size? by Tim+C · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    webserver + mail server

    Both come with Win2k and XP Pro (I believe that IIS provides SMTP service support, although I've never used it). It's a separate install, but it's right there on the CD

    a complete set of development tools

    They're available as a separate download - the vast majority of Windows users neither want nor need them.

    cd burner

    Integrated into Explorer, as long as all you want to do is burn files to a CD (eg no ISO support).

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    It's official. Most of you are morons.
  2. buy CDs by poptones · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    RPM sucks ass. I used mandrake for the longest, but never again. I never realized how easy linux could be until I used a debian distribution.

    Ubuntu is a fantastic distribution, easy to install and with good support. It's a single CD which they will send you free for the asking and, because it uses debian, you can order an assload of easy to install software on 7Cds for about ten bucks. I don't have broadband either but I do if I take my laptop into town, but even with all that free bandwidth it's still cheaper just to order the CDs (even at a couple MBps it takes HOURS to download seven CDs!)

  3. Re:slashdot effect by Technonotice_Dom · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was just looking through OSDir at some other stuff when the Slashdot effect took hold.

    Just typical.