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Fedora Core 4 Reviewer Finds It Bloated

Posted by timothy on from the complain-enjoy-compromise dept.

Provataki writes "TuxTops reviews Fedora Core 4 and finds a number of problems with the popular distribution: high memory usage, usability problems, bugs, bloat. They awarded FC4 with 6 out of 10 at the end as despite its quirks they also find it a 'powerful distro' and easy to use."

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  1. Re:FC4 still runs too many services... by J.Y.Kelly · · Score: 5, Informative

    The cutting down of the core distribution was an intentional decision and is arguably a good rather than a bad thing. It arose from the (eventual) appearance of Fedora extras which is the community maintanined set of packages for fedora. This marks a passing of control from Redhat to the community and pushes Fedora towards being the community oriented distribution it was promised to be. You can expect that the core FC5 distribution will be even smaller than FC4 with more packages moved to Extras. What was bad about the FC4 release is that Extras has yet to be tied in to the installer, which means that the installing or upgrading of these packages must be done post install. One of the goals for FC5 is to have Extras available at install time.

  2. More reviews by youknowmewell · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1830880,00.as p

    http://www.osjournal.com/content/85/Reviews/A_look _at_Fedora_Core_4/

    http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2 005/6/28/prodit/11304408&sec=prodit

    These reviews aren't quite so negative as the review posted on /. . Funny how that is.