Fedora Core Archive

LinuxTimes feature a two page review of FC3, along with screenshots.

Following the opening up of CVS access to contributors, the Fedora project has announced pre-extras, a preview release of the Fedora extras repository. The distributed "global filesystem," or GFS, acquired by Redhat and later open sourced, has been integrated into the Fedora development tree recently as well.

It has been a while since Redhat announced the merger with Fedora.us and the formation of a community oriented and supported Fedora project. The process of opening up CVS access to the community is one of the major steps towards that and that has finally happened, according to Red Hat. The build infrastructure internally used by Redhat should open up soon and formation of fedora extras and policies would complete the process.

The first thing anyone considering using Fedora needs to know is this is not a safe, sane Linux distribution. It's not meant to be. Fedora is the test bed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and is also the replacement for Red Hat Linux, with two major differences: there is no commercial edition, and it is intended to be a community project, rather than solely a Red Hat product. Read the rest of the review at LinuxPlanet.

Here's yet another review of Fedora Core 3, this time at NewsForge.

A month after the release of Fedora Core 3 (FC3) we have a pretty good idea over its evolution since its first release last year. In fact, we found FC3 to be its best release yet.

I've been using Linux since the Redhat days. Since then, it has grown from a curious look to a hobby, and more recently to my main operating system. Due to starting out with Redhat, I admit to being partial to the Redhat/Fedora series. Don't let that concern you though, as I've tried all of the mainstream distributions, even Lycoris and Linspire.

In response to Red Hat's Owen Taylor's call to find ways to reduce boot time, progress is being made. Graphs here and here show the status. If this work continues we are likely to see a more efficient boot sequence. Hopefully this kind of work will continue on other major subsystems of the Linux desktop.

Fedora Core 3 release candidate is available for testing; Interested parties can find it here or here.

Red Hat's Fedora Core 3 Test 3 is now available. Release notes can be found here, torrents can be found here.

From the Fedora site: "The second test release of Fedora Core 3 is now available from Red Hat and at distinguished mirror sites near you, and is also available in the torrent. This test release is available for both x86-64 and i386. Please file bugs via Bugzilla, Product Fedora Core, Version fc3test2, so that they are noticed and appropriately classified. Discuss this test release on fedora-test-list."

This article is kind of a follow-up to my first Fedora Core 2 review, published on OSNews in May. Most of the reviews are published shortly after the release of a distribution, and there's always someone who complains that one cannot really "review" a distribution after only a few days of actually working with it.

Despite its description as a technology proving ground, Fedora II provides Linux users with a good Linux desktop experience. For veteran Linux users, Fedora II will provide you with the productivity tools you need and the latest stable open-source technology. You can even use the Red Hat up-to-date service for free to keep your desktop current. Read Tom Adelstein's product review of Fedora Linux Core II.

Fedora Core 3 Test 1 has been released for download. See the announcement here.