Linked by Jason Parker on Mon 20th Oct 2003 18:01 UTC
Fedora Test 3, is, most certainly, as the name says, a test. In my experience there are a few problems and a few bugs that would keep me from recommending it as an everyday desktop replacement, but nonetheless, Fedora is an Operating System (distro) worth watching out.
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Fedora features a good installer as far as system installations go, I prefer it to others.
the review mentions the graphics card issue, yes it has issues, i noticed some massive flicker action going on with my nvidia card but that is easily resolved with the nvidia official drivers. (but the X team need to sort that flickering out, bugreport submitted to redhat)
The nicer parts after the reboot is the grub bootloader screen, nice warm colours.
after it has loaded the kernel it starts the service rhgb which gives the impression of booting into X which is a nice needed feature.
then it takes the user to the gdm screen.
All in all Redhat has included alot of gui configuration tools, anaconda powered (python) some of which need an overhaul (redhat-config-httpd and the redhat-config-network which doesnt like two cards on the same machine)
I'd say the next gen. distributions are going to be _very_ nice for the end users pov.
There has even been discussions about gentoo bundling anaconda with the livecd (?)
so watch out for mandrake, gentoo and fedora they are indeed the best of the -open- oss distributions