Michael JasonSmith wrote:
Some Initial thoughts on Fedora Core 3.
* No surprises with the installer. As usual I trashed the old
install rather than rely on any fancy âupgradeâ. All went well
with the install.
* GNOME 2.8 is also devoid of surprises. Nautilus is sane. The
panels are sane.
* The biggest issue that I faced after installing FC3 was the
upgrade of Evolution (from 1.4 to 2.0.2). Evolution changed the
format of its mail directories and converting them takes a
while.
* I noticed that Evolution has a thumping great Exchange
button. Not having an account on the Exchange server on
Campus, I was unable to try it out .
* Training the inbuilt spam-checker takes a very long
time!
* GNOME Themes Extras is not installed by default. I installed the
TAR ball and all is well (mmmm, SVG iconsâ).
* Straw is not installed by default, so I found an RPM and
installed that.
* I could have figured out how to configure Up2Date, but I
downloaded and installed the new version of Firefox by hand.
...on top of that ( installed on a 2GHz Tosh laptop )...
2.6.9 kernel.
nvidia latest drivers halt boot completely.
I hadn't even noticed it wasn't Gnome 2.6 (:
acpi seems to be much more comprehensive
As I mentioned previously, I'm most upset with the 600+MB of patches already necessary ( for support of a complete install ), although this did update firefox to 1.0
sound installed perfectly ( WAHOO! ).
SELinux... must find out more about that.
Firewire still seems to have failed to install... but I'm only going on the slew of error messages generated, and a number of emails berating the quality of tosh 1394 hard/firmware!
plugging in my usb pen drive automatically mounted at /media/PrivacyZone, which is good! unplugging it umounts it automagically, which is better! every time I plug it in, it's at /dev/sda1, so this looks like a major improvement.
k3b starts up painlessly.
