An Early Look at Fedora Core 2 [LWN.net]

An Early Look at Fedora Core 2

Posted Feb 19, 2004 17:05 UTC (Thu) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)
Parent article: An Early Look at Fedora Core 2

The only problem with his review is that he doesn't mention the VAST AMOUNT of updates that
have come out since its initial release. I'm running it on an AMD Athlon and I really haven't
noticed much in the way of bugs even with the very first release... but then again, I prefer KDE
and haven't checked out any of the GNOME stuff.

So far, I've had three major updates... the first update had over 300 packages (and I don't even
have the devel stuff installed). I can't remember how many packages were in the second major
update but it was rather hugh too. I'm in the middle of the third update... but it looks like it is
going to be bigger than the first.

There is a large amount of active development... and I'm not having to wait for the next Test
release to be part of it. While there were a few minor problems with the initial Test 1 release, I
don't see how the author of this article can make a blanket statement that the quality of future
releases will suffer. I just don't buy it. I think the big difference here is that Fedora Core 2 has
so many changes... new GNOME, new KDE, new kernel, etc. From a KDE user's perspective, I am
very impressed with Test 1.

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An Early Look at Fedora Core 2

Posted Feb 19, 2004 19:40 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

I just dont' think Red Hat is one of Ladislav's favourite distro's/companies :).. Every person has their favourites and dislikes. My favourite ends up currently to be RH so I probably would give them more of a slide on things than he would.

An Early Look at Fedora Core 2

Posted Feb 20, 2004 0:13 UTC (Fri) by ladislav (guest, #247) [Link]

<i>I just dont' think Red Hat is one of Ladislav's favourite distro's/companies</a>

Well, it wasn't long ago that I was accused of being a Red Hat salesman!

I have installed and tested every single RH beta and Fedora test releases since version 7.1 and this one is by far the worst development release of them all. That doesn't mean that I hate Red Hat. I report what I see, which understandably might not always be in agreement with experiences and views of other users and readers. Still, I do try to be objective: just read through the Fedora test mailing list and you will note that much of the criticism expressed in the article is valid.