Redhat’s Fedora Project is scheduled to release its sixth version this Thursday, October 19th.
We’ve been using Fedora since it was Red Hat’s personal edition…since Version 7.1. There are times when Windows is being particularly difficult that we contemplate ridding ourselves of our Windows machines and going totally Linux. For those of you who think Linux is complicated…remember, the learning curve may be a bit higher than Windows, but it offers the same graphical user interface and desktop features most computer users are used to.
Fedora Core 6 offers improved versions of its desktop management programs, Gnome and KDE. All applications that use dynamic linking have been rebuilt with new code that improves performance by fifty percent, and performance of various subsystems and applications have been significantly improved.
The new version now supports Mac machines running Intel processors.
It means in a week or two, when the various repositories are updated and the download lag eases, we’ll be upgrading our Linux-based computers. We will have more information on our personal view of Fedora Core 6 then.
For those of you who have rejected Linux as an option…just remember…almost anything you can want is available for Linux, and it is pretty much free. How much does a copy of Windows XP cost? Or Vista when it comes out? And how much does Microsoft want from you to upgrade?