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10/25 Fedora Core 6 is out:
http://fedoraproject.org/static-tmp/FC6ReleaseSummary.html
\_ Anyone still use Fedora Core?
\_ Why wouldn't they?
\_ Because Ubuntu is a better and more popular distro?
\_ In what way is it better than RH/SuSE/Debian?
Will most commerical software for RH/SuSE run
w/o problems on Ubuntu, or do you have to do
a hack job to get it to work?
\_ Because it's a bleeding edge product with an aggressive
EOL timeline and no real advantage over more stable
products like CentOS. -tom
\_ Depends on if you use RHEL as your production
environment. If so, then it makes sense to use Fedora
Core on some systems if you are looking ahead. Ubuntu
and CentOS don't really fill that need. If you do not
use RHEL, then I guess you don't care.
\_ Many of my customers hesitated about deploying
on CentOS b/c they didn't really believe that
is was RH compatible. For some reason, the same
was not true of Fedora Core. They viewed it as
a way of testing stuff out on a pre-release of
RHEL.
\_ Exactly. The "for some reason" is that they both
are Red Hat products.
\_ So FC is a complete RH inhouse job like
in the old days (ie before RH9)? I thought
that it was spun off into the open source
"community" and that RH merely supervised.
\_ "The Fedora Project is maintained and
driven by the community and sponsored by
Red Hat, Inc." From http://fedora.redhat.com.
One look at that web site should show that
you should not be running Fedora in any
production environment. -tom
\_ Don't run in production != don't run
at all. As above, it's useful for testing
pre-release. FC basically ends up becoming
RHEL. |
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| fedoraproject.org/static-tmp/FC6ReleaseSummary.html Login Search: Titles Text Fedora Core 6 Release Summary The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora Core 6 (Zod). Install-time access to third-party package repositories, extensive performance improvements, support for Intel-based Macs, and a new GUI virtualization manager are some of the primary features. Additionally, Fedora Core 6 provides various improvements on the desktop, including a new default font and theme, the latest releases of GNOME and KDE, and additional options in window managers. distribution options, including purchasing from an online vendor, requesting free media, or sponsoring the delivery of Fedora to someone who otherwise could not download or afford it. system-config-printer tool, which has several new features. Devices are detected on-demand as necessary, and support for per-user queues is available, so users can customize their printer settings without having to modify system-wide configurations. performance boost during start-up for applications using dynamic linking. Packages rebuilt in this manner include beagle, evince, gnome-utils, and NetworkManager. System Administration * Arguably the most useful new feature in Fedora Core 6 are the improvements that have been made to Anaconda, the Fedora installer. At install-time, the user can specify third-party repositories, and if the install is network-aware, Fedora can reach out to those repositories and pull in additional packages. SCIM input method, including more languages such as Sinhalase (Sri Lanka) and Oriya, Kannada, and Malayalam (India). Fedora Core now provides an easy interface to switch the input methods using im-chooser. |
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