Introduction:
Recently Red Hat corporation decided to quit the free distro business all together and focus on Red Hat Enterprise Linux instead, since from a corporate standpoint it's the only thing that makes money. Rather than leave their dedicated userbase out in the cold however, they branched off and formed Fedora, a completely user-developed spinoff of the RedHat 9 distro. RedHat still uses the innovations it likes in Fedora for their Enterprise Linux of course, but development for everything aside from the kernel itself is all up to the community.
Install:
Well, the Fedora Project was basically a branch of Redhat 9 so there's not much to report. Read my review on Redhat 9 for more details on that.
Package Selection:
As is true with anything done by Redhat after version 7.3, Fedora is moderately to severely bloated and in very serious danger of floating to the surface to be discovered by a lone hiker one day. Package selection is further simplified unless you choose the "show all packages" checkbox, and once you install the thing you can't look at all the packages you have install EVER AGAIN (there is no "show all packages" in the package manager Fedora provides in XWindows).
Most Annoying Feature:
The same thing that always annoys me about Redhat's products: they're real pretty and work on most any hardware configuration, but you pay for it with lack of package choices and lots of bloat.
Who's it best for?
As was true with Redhat 9, Fedora is good for everyone ranging from Linux n00b to 1337 linux hax0r.
Fedora Core 1
description: |
non-corporate Redhat spinoff still officially supported by them |
CDs: |
3 |
estimated install time: |
30 mins |
rating: |
 |
date ranted: |
11/05/2003 |
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