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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. Mod parent up, please. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's a joke. I swear, some of the people with mod points on this site wouldn't know a joke if it hit them in the rectum.

  3. Re:Functionality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn trolls.

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    Take your balls out of Corporate America's purse and we'll talk
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    Right..

    From Fedorafaq.org ..

    In the United States and some other countries, you may have to pay patent royalties to use MP3 players or encoders. However, for home users, there is no legal problem with MP3 players.

  4. 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!)

  5. Re:Size? by strider44 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn multi-CD distros not using the fact we're *gasp* usually connected to the Internet and can download what we want.

    I'm not sure whether that's a comment made in comparison to other distros, but, just in case, here is...

    A brief broadband linux tutorial:

    Debian

    Ubuntu

    Arch

    Gentoo

    The end.

  6. REDHATE SUCKS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sucks to be you.

  7. Re:Size? by strider44 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sorry to bother you but I think he meant a web server that won't get your computer hacked in fifteen minutes.

    Thanks.

  8. 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.