Okay I tried Fedora 2 as soon as it got released and all I can say about it is that I was disappointed. The kernel upgrade via rpm permanently out-of-synced my clock, and in general the distribution was very sluggish even on my P4-1.6 GHz 768 MB laptop.
The default GNOME 2.6 included with Fedora 2 still needs lots of refinement and even basic menu editing is made inaccessible to the users by fedora 2 folks apparently due to some bug with GNOME menu. So right now KDE seems to be the only way to go, and that is having first cleaned up the horrile customization done to it Fedora 2 people.
There is XFCE 4.0.5 lightweight desktop environment included in the installation disks but not in the anaconda installer. How could they have forgotten to include this? XFCE is a very good alternative over GNOME and KDE especially on old hardware.
I haven't tried Suse or Mandrake because I am myself a Slackware fan and very satisfied with it. The recently released Slackware 10 is excellent and after a bit of compilation, installation (kernel, mplayer, kermit, openoffice, etc...), and customization it stands out to be a pretty solid linux distro.
Well right now they have the most popular search technology, and soon they will be the most popular email provider. I bet they are going to introduce Messenger also, something like Google Messenger, which I hope is multiprotocol client like Kopete. They can leverage their popularity and customer loyality to screw Microsoft, yahoo, and others big time. I wonder what sinister plans Microsoft has under consideration to deal with google.
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Okay I tried Fedora 2 as soon as it got released and all I can say about it is that I was disappointed. The kernel upgrade via rpm permanently out-of-synced my clock, and in general the distribution was very sluggish even on my P4-1.6 GHz 768 MB laptop. The default GNOME 2.6 included with Fedora 2 still needs lots of refinement and even basic menu editing is made inaccessible to the users by fedora 2 folks apparently due to some bug with GNOME menu. So right now KDE seems to be the only way to go, and that is having first cleaned up the horrile customization done to it Fedora 2 people. There is XFCE 4.0.5 lightweight desktop environment included in the installation disks but not in the anaconda installer. How could they have forgotten to include this? XFCE is a very good alternative over GNOME and KDE especially on old hardware. I haven't tried Suse or Mandrake because I am myself a Slackware fan and very satisfied with it. The recently released Slackware 10 is excellent and after a bit of compilation, installation (kernel, mplayer, kermit, openoffice, etc...), and customization it stands out to be a pretty solid linux distro.
Well right now they have the most popular search technology, and soon they will be the most popular email provider. I bet they are going to introduce Messenger also, something like Google Messenger, which I hope is multiprotocol client like Kopete. They can leverage their popularity and customer loyality to screw Microsoft, yahoo, and others big time. I wonder what sinister plans Microsoft has under consideration to deal with google.