Fedora Core, anyone ?

[Chong Yu Meng]

Anybody using Fedora Core out there ? I installed it on Tuesday after a 
new keyboard corrupted my Red Hat 9 partition (It was a Zippy Win XP 
certified keyboard. No harm, right ? Well, in this case, it was a 
disaster! RH9 couldn't even recognize my regular keyboard after that.)

Some first impressions :

1. Pretty cool. Still looks like Red Hat, but the Custom package 
installation is different from how I remember RH9 -- didn't have the 
option to select indicidual packages.
2. Still has the tendency to dump everything and the kitchen sink into 
your PC. This turned out to be a good thing for me, though, because I'm 
picking up DocBook, and the tools (all 100+ MB of them) for parsing and 
generating HTML docs are very good.
3. gdm has now become a real pain in the neck. Trying to add an XFCE 
session inside with no luck so far -- even after googling for answers. 
Something seems to be broken or missing ...

I'm actually glad that Red Hat decided not to support their "Linux for 
the masses". One of the main gripes I had about Red Hat years ago, was 
that I thought  they'd hijack Linux and turn it proprietary. Hopefully 
Fedora will become an independent project ... and successful.

Regards,
pascal chong