Fedora Core Archive

FUDCon 2, the second gathering of Fedora Users and Developers, was held at LinuxTag, on the 24th and 25th of June in Karlsruhe, Germany. FUDCon 2 featured presentations from prominent members of the Fedora Project, both from Red Hat and from the Fedora community.

Every Fedora Core release outshines the previous one, Fedora Core 4 maintains this pattern with an excellent collection of the latest open source packages and improved performance. Two areas that still need some work are out-of-the-box sound mixing and package management

FUDCon 2, the second gathering of Fedora Users and Developers, has been held at LinuxTag, on the 24th and 25th of June in Karlsruhe, Germany. FUDCon 2 features presentations from prominent members of the Fedora Project, both from Red Hat and from the Fedora community. LinuxTag also has a nice write-up of FUDCon 2. The presentations are expected to be made available on the FUDcon pages soon.

Close on the heels of the popular Fedora Core 4 release is the budding preliminary plans for next release of Fedora Core 5.

The latest issue of Red Hat Magazine includes an interesting overview of the new Fedora Core 4 among other things, released earlier this week.

Fedora Core 4 sponsored by Red Hat and supported by the Fedora community (soon to be Fedora Foundation) has been released with a number of new features including GNOME 2.10, KDE 3.4, Openoffice.org 2.0 (pre release with enhancements), Evince document viewer, , Xen, GFS, GCC 4.0, Enhancements in SELinux, support for the PPC architecture, Free Java stack (using GCJ) including Eclipse and Apache Jakarta among others. Download and install your brand new Fedora.

MadPenguin posted a review of FC4 with screenshots.

Although the Alpha architecture may have been brought to the end of the line by HP, developers across the world have worked together and released an updated version of AlphaCore, an unofficial version of Fedora Core for the Alpha architecture.

In this article I take a look at Fedora Core 4 Test 2. This review is only intended to preview the change from Fedora Core 3.

"As a test release, Fedora Core 4 Test 2 shows just how good FC4 will be when it's officially releases. Should you punt FC3 and upgrade? Frankly, not on your primary system unless you don't need the guarantees of an official, complete release." Read the rest of the preview here.

The following article summarizes my experience with AMD64 and Fedora Core x86-64 in desktop systems. In a few years all new computers will be 64 bit. Microsoft and Intel are positive about the 64 bit direction, and Linux seems to be ahead of Wintel for now.

Fedora Core 4 Test 1 is now available, more info here.

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.

Fedora PPC is now in test stage, a Fedora Core 3 test was released last week. Here few impressions and screenshots on this test release.