Fedora Core 6 Preview
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thu, 06/22/2006 - 20:14.
It is time yet again where the next Fedora Core installment (this time, Core 6) begins to grab the attention of red-hat-wearing penguins and other GNU/Linux enthusiasts. Yesterday was the inaugural test release of Fedora Core 6, which is targeted at die-hard Fedorians, and any other users wishing to get a glimpse at what Fedora Core 6 will hold in store.
Of course, Fedora Core 6 Test 1 is not a stable release for use with production machines, so proceed at your own risk. We have been experimenting with Fedora Core 6 Test 1 for about 24 hours now, and have a few thoughts to share. Fedora Core 4 Stentz shaped up to be a competitive release, and Fedora Core 5 Bordeaux continues to be one of the best Linux distributions to date, so how will Fedora Core 6 fare in this competitive open-source world?
Fedora can always support Firefox and Google like tiny Linux ?
Fedora can not support KDE without broken applications. And Gnome is full of bugs with mono emulations. Display problems trying to satisfy many platforms. Mono is still a work in progress. Ubuntu had to stick to static(binary) Gnome programs. Any compilation on updated mono is to be frowned on. To improve speed and memory hogging problems due to emulation logics, Gnome has to go back to C and Python.
Perhaps it will support Opera9 which has bugs with MSN.com webpage displays, also due to need to satsfy many operating systems.
We can see that you can not use Anaconda to add core 6 on top of core 5. This is their philosophy of revolution rather than evolution as long as people want to waste their time for the next core inventions. Their revenue is derived from software fixing?
Unfortunately most administrators locked down their RedHat v7.2/7.3. IBM knows its not RedHat nor IBM making Linux desktop a problem; its loosely coupled Linux development issues in the open sourced community, forcing Linux out of contention to be even usable(bugs and software integration problems). Many major Linux distros have to backpaddle to their v9.x to have continuity, before they can advance their functions.
Footnote:
Since Linux philosophy is shared programs, Xorg should share VGA first; then add functions of new chipsets whether it is rendering engine or 3d instructions. Xorg could not even accommodate many monitor horizontal frequencies except 60 hz. When you start a revolution of new functions in old order of drivers or any software; you stepped on toes and made most lines of codes have conflicts. When you have to use templates to avoid conflicts, you are better off like Vista.
Fedora is good
I have heard bad things about Redhat since I first began with Linux, but I have tried Fedora Core 5 in a virtual system in vmware player and it looks better than any other distribution I have tried and it was fast, stable, and was very easy to install software. Fedora Core is now my second favorite distribution after Ubuntu.