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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fresrpms is good
I do use it - its grand for stuff fedora doesn't include due to licensing foibles, like mplayer. However, I was thinking more of *obscure* stuff that you can often need out of the blue. For example, I know a girl who likes to irc through my computer, and only uses ircii, ever. Or, I needed to try out MythTV due to TV card problems, but the public rpms they provided have nasty clashes, so it resulted in a hellish hunt around CPAN and elsewhere to fulfil dependencies and compile from source. I like freebsd for this - it seems to have *everything* I could possibly want in its packages, meaning I save loads of time on these odds and ends. Unfortunately, its java1.4 support isn't brilliant, and fedora really is better (nicer looking, more responsive etc) for desktop use, and I can't give up JPackage (a great repository for java developers, saves tons of times and solves nearly all of my finicky java needs).
All in all, fedora+JPackage is great for my needs, I'm just moaning really because occasionally I have to piss about searching for an age when I need one of the other, non-top 700 packages. Otherwise, its about the best linux distro I've ever used - keeps me happy, looks fantastic, and sensibly laid out.