Category: Linux

This is the announcement of Zod. Zod permits you to call him “Fedora Core
6″.

Tremble, Earthlings, for Zod is released from the confines of testing. Zod
intends to hammer the servers of the world … starting TODAY! For those
who chose the world-domination-acceptance package in your last
installation, you need do nothing — Zod is beaming itself to your
computers already. If your keyboard begins to get hot, back away … very
… slowly …

For the rest of you minions who failed to do Zod’s bidding previously,
this is your ONE AND ONLY CHANCE to redeem yourself. Go quickly! Download
the torrent NOW. Obtain the ISO immediately. Zod’s minions know to back up
their /home directory and to begin immediate installation of the GREATEST
version of Fedora Core EVER.

When you are done genuflecting, listen carefully. Zod now delivers an
important message to Zod’s predecessor, the Fifth Iteration of Fedora
Core, known to some as Bordeaux:

“KNEEL BEFORE ZOD, for Zod has many improvements that convince users to
upgrade and abandon you! Ph34r me! Mwahahahaha.”

Zod accepts that the Fedora Project continues to provide software and
security updates for Bordeaux, as per the policy of Zod’s minions. Zod
chooses to permit this action to continue.

We are downloading the latest disk images for Fedora Core 6 for 32-bit and 64-bit processors as we write this. For a complete summary of new features, visit the Fedora Project list here. We are looking forward to a new and exciting upgrade, although since our systems are in constant use, we will have to find some downtime to minimize the loss of services.

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?