Fedora Core 2 is a good general-purpose Linux distribution, but it lacks support, says eWEEK Labs. Update: Here’s another Fedora review, but it’s in Czech.
Fedora Widens Its Scope
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Doesn’t FC2 ship with 2.4 and 2.6? I haven’t installed so I don’t know.
But anyway I think they should just stick with FC1 for a couple more months, if things aren’t supported yet.
> Fedora Core 2 is a good general-purpose Linux distribution, but it lacks support
That’s the whole purpose of FC, isn’t it?: free (beer and speech) distro and no support, or you buy RHEL and get support.
“Doesn’t FC2 ship with 2.4 and 2.6? I haven’t installed so I don’t know. ”
no. just 2.6
Oh okay thanks
That’s the whole purpose of FC, isn’t it?: free (beer and speech) distro and no support, or you buy RHEL and get support.
I suppose we have to clarify, as well, what kind of support we’re talking about. If it’s non-commercial support from the community, I have to say I’ve gotten pretty good feedback from the Fedora community. It took me a few hours (2 or 3) to figure out how to use the NVidia 3D-hardware accelerated driver, that I could use the forcedeth and the snd_intel8x0 drivers for my nForce2-based motherboard’s ethernet NIC and sound card OUT-OF-THE-BOX, and how to fix a few tweaks that disabled the Windows key in X. I never got a lot of problems with FC2, and the few that I did got resolved pretty quickly.
I don’t think there are any companies out there providing commercial support for Fedora Core, but there’s nothing prohibiting someone from doing so. It might actually not be a bad business proposal to do so.
It seems like their policy is going ahead all the time. 6 months and a new distro with new software and kernel and features is out.
Very good for enthusiasts 🙂