Linked by Robert Trembath on Wed 18th Feb 2004 01:29 UTC
Couldn't stop myself from trying the new Fedora 2-test1 release, even if it is an alpha! The 2.6 kernel, KDE 3.2 and Gnome 2.5 all in the same release was just to much candy to turn away from; too bad it's more sour rather than sweet at this (beta) point than I would have expected.
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Have you noticed that most (not all, but most) of the distributions that include things like the Nvidia drivers "out of the box" are distros that you have to pay for? Mandrake even includes this stuff, but only in their boxed sets...if you download the ISO's then you have to look for RPMs.
Now, back to Fedora. I think I may just give FC2 a try on one of my boxes when it's final, but my home machine is going to stay Debian for a while. I'm also looking forward to trying out Mandrake 10. Kernel 2.6.x has so far been pretty good to me: it's nice and fast, and you no longer need to use ide-scsi emulation for cd burning (which I always thought was an ugly hack). KDE 3.2 is VERY nice (I wish Debian would release some packages for Sid and get it over with, already!), and I would like to give Gnome 2.6 a try; I've heard about Nautilus' new layout, but I haven't seen it in action.
As far as being buggy is concerned, well, it's a test release. If you are having trouble with bugs, then by all means create a detailed bug report and submit it; that's what this release is for (well, that and keeping people interested).