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Title: Fedora Core 5 Post by ReeBop on Apr 5th, 2006, 9:16am I wrote a little story about Fedora Core 5 at Geeksters.org: http://www.geeksters.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=463 I still feel very strong about the Fedora Core project and this distribution. I used RedHat since 3.0.3 and have always been impressed with the slickness of this distribution. To me, the landmark releases were 3.0.3, 5.2, 6.2 and 7.3. I feel that they lost their way on 8.0 and 9.0. It seems that each release, they would create more tools, but those new tools would be hard to find, or not very well documented. Take their X Windows setup tool. Nearly impossible to find, and not nearly as easy to use as their old text based program. I stuck with the transisition from RedHat to the Fedora Project however, always dutifully upgrading each time. I stopped at version 3 however, because of some trouble I had heard about 4. Also, it seemed that the upgrade path was a little too fast for me and upgrading my system was a bit of a pain. I am ready for the upgrade to 5. From this review, I think that Fedora is maturing rather nicely with lots of help from RedHat. That all makes sense, because this is what RedHat bases their Enterprise editions on. I voiced my concerns in the Geeksters story and I have felt that way ever since RedHat began toying with KDE in a rather negative way. I am not a Gnome user, nor will I ever be one. I used KDE since the beginning of their project, I will continue to be one. I do not like a distribution forcing a particular desktop upon the user. Thank goodness for the people at the KDE-RedHat Project. It does add another big step in the upgrade process, adding the proper software repository and downloading all the proper packages to give me the KDE desktop that I want. I see projects that don't bother with software built for Fedora Core. Gambas is one of them. I think Gambas could be a great programming tool and could be the "Visual Basic 6.0" of the Linux world. It seems though, that they don't keep up with current versions that will run on Fedora Core. The very interesting GimpShop project is another example. No current Fedora Core software available. There are other examples too. For a leading Linux distribution, I find this really puzzling. Yes, YUM is a great way to manange your system software, but it doesn't help a bit if the software doesn't exist to begin with. Like I said in the article, I don't nor will I recommend Fedora Core to the beginning Linux user. I don't like their menuing setup, I don't like the way that they organize their graphical system tools. Sure, they may be fine tools, but they are not easy to find. SUSE and Mandriva have the right idea with YaST and the Draktools respectively. Maybe Fedora can group its set of tools in this fashion someday. Maybe it is as easy as icons in a HTML page...somewhat like the Windows Control Panel. I hope they think of something. I can however recommend Fedora Core to any experienced Linux user. The overall structure has changed little since version 3.0.3 and probably won't change much in the future. Stability is a good thing here. Also, I have never had much trouble compiling software for my Fedora Core 3 system. I can't say that for my Mandriva system on my notebook. As for SUSE, I haven't played enough with it yet to know what will happen. The YUM software management tool is wonderful. It does appear that they have a nice new graphical front end to YUM. I used a tool called GYUM before, and even though it put a friendly face on the text based YUM command, it was incredibly slow. I will still recommend Mandriva (and possibly SUSE) for beginners, but I will still have Fedora Core as the main Linux desktop at home for the foreseeable future. It sometimes does disappoint, but never fails me. [smiley=idea2.gif] |
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