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Fedora Core 4 Quick Tour

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the some-joke-about-core-samples-would-be-funny dept.

linuxbeta writes "redhat.com says the new Fedora 'has just turned 4' and it 'purrs', 'hums', and 'mesmerizes'. Has Steve Jobs taken over Fedora's marketing dept. or is this release something to really get excited about? OSDir has put together a quick tour of this fresh release in KDE and GNOME desktop flavors. Release Overview. You be the judge."

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  1. Broken right out of the box by MobyDisk · · Score: 2, Informative
    Browsing of Windows shares fails on Fedora Core 4 systems that have the standard firewall configured. This is most easily noticed in the failure of the desktop to display shares. The firewall disrupts the broadcast mode of SMB browsing, which is the default.

    So the default configuration out of the box does not work with Windows shares. That's not reasonable! This is how Linux gets a reputation for hard to use and hard to configure.

    The bugzilla report makes it even clearer: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi? id=133478

  2. Few thoughts during instalation... by kosmosik · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'am just during test drive instalation on my laptop. I've transferred entire partition (FC3) to my server and I do clean install. The instal right about now has rebooted me to fresh system. ;)

    So what I saw during instalation:

    * Installer now uses different GTK theme (ClearLooks instead of Bluecurve?).
    * LVM partitioning actually works which is quite cool.
    * Subbmitting "linux reiserfs" as boot command does not work (it should activate ReiserFS as an option during partitioning).
    * Selecting packages is not selecting packages but you select functionalities - like "Web Server" instead of "httpd, php-foo..." package names - it is for sure less confising for newbies, but somebody who wishes to have more custom package setup needs to remaster instalation media...
    * "Minimal Instalation" option is still retarded, checking it still requires you to have discs 1, 2, 4 - and it copies less then 60MB from disc 2 and 4 so if somebody did it better you could do minimal just from disc 1.

    Now the system has booted (few FAILED messages but I can manage that) and it is EXTREMELY FAST, it booted (Minimal Install) in like 10 seconds on P3 based low-end laptop. This is quite nice... Now im going to clean up this mess and see what this baby can do. ;)

    Thank you Fedora Devs!