Final Review of Fedora Core 1 There's not much left to say, so I will keep it brief.
The Fedora Core 1 package manager is broke, on many, many levels. It was broke in Redhat 8, Redhat 9, and now it's broke in Fedora Core. The first thing that you need to do after installing Fedora Core 1 is install apt-get, and then do a "apt-get upgrade". I found that I also had to add the DAG repository to the list of repositories that apt-get uses. But, on the flip side, it runs beautifully. A basic default installation is pretty much everything you will install anyhow (although, I was disappointed that it didn't install a DVD player). I will note, however, that it does install a lot of things that you never know are there, and doesn't install some things that you expect to be there. Ifconfig from net-tools is one of them; I was quite unsure how to get my local IP without it. It's absence puzzles me. That's pretty much it. I am interested to see how Fedora Core 2 works out. If they fix the package manager, it will certainly be an distro "for the rest of us". David Jackson
