The Fedora Project has a pre-release of Fedora Core 6 available for testers. More information on the new features that will be available in Fedora Core 6 is detailed in the release summary draft. This release comes with Compiz/AIGLX which provides all those fancy effects.
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The installer features a very friendly partitioning program. Click on the review option for more details
http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/737/5.gif
Unfortunately it isnt easy to refactor the program out for post installation. There is a new utility under active development for that.
See http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gdu-6.png
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Hmm, I have my opinions on NeroLinux - why did it use GTK+ 1.x when it would have been alot more common sense to use GTK+ 2.x and put some effort into fitting into the GNOME desktop.
If they can't even get their GTK+ widget selection correct, how can one expect them to keep up to date with changes in distributions! everytime I see something stupid like what Nero did to NeroLinux, it moves me more towards the opensource end of the spectrum.
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hraq, have you reported this as a bug? It would be a pity if the same mistakes are made in future fedora kernels.
Let's take an example, fedora 5 with the latest kernel and other packages installed rendered nerolinux so slow because the newer kernel didn't support dma=1
tried K3b too, and also no dma. So I tried to pass codes to kernel at grub boot time and no luck, used also "hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc" and error messages appeared, also passed some module changes to modprobe.conf and no positive results.
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Well the list of good things are huge and the performance promises of >50% is unbelievably cool.
But I feel like in many distros of non enterprise class that packages are broken or could break something.
Let's take an example, fedora 5 with the latest kernel and other packages installed rendered nerolinux so slow because the newer kernel didn't support dma=1
tried K3b too, and also no dma. So I tried to pass codes to kernel at grub boot time and no luck, used also "hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc" and error messages appeared, also passed some module changes to modprobe.conf and no positive results.Contacted nerolinux and they said It's an issue with bad kernel choice from the distro. Now fedora with ealier kernels had no problems with these two programs, now they have. Now back to RHEL 4.3 or Mandriva CS 4.0 both didn't have any problems enabling dma on DVD+RW drive, thus shortening time of burning from 45 minutes to 15 minutes.
So I wish fedora jump to a more stable kernels in the future than what they've used to.
Also, All distros really suffer from the lack of a GUI partitioning software that is easy to use and straightforward; of course I need it to be able to Partition/Format/Mount/Unmount like the one in windows or OSX. File systems support I like also to be included are ntfs, xfs and jfs.
I regularly use fedora 5 on two workstations, but I have a secret love to the upcomming RHEL 5, I am dying everyday because It's not out yet!
By the way I have experienced the same issues above on ubuntu 6.06.