Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 15, 2006 11:47 PM
Despite this article being titled "First Look: Fedora Core 5", this is somewhat misleading because he eventually references Fedora Core 5 Test 2! Yep, this isn't the first test release, the latest test release (that's Test 3) or the final release (which he admits it out next week).
I'm a little surprised he bangs on a lot about Anaconda (which has changed a little bit from Fedora Core 4, but not substantially) and yum (which has been around since Fedora Core 2 and has had only minor improvements since then), which are probably not the things I'd consider the biggest changes.
The biggest changes are the slew of Java apps that have turned up thanks to the much-improved gcj environment (e.g. Azureus is finally in Fedora Extras - yay!), the inclusion of Mono (I doubt I'll run much written in that though - slocate [or is that "mlocate" now?] and vi are my preferred apps compared to Beagle and Tomboy) and the latest Firefox/Thunderbird (somewhat ridiculously, the FC4 developers refuse to release Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5 on FC4 - the package is in Rawhide but configured to build on FC5 only).
BTW, Festival and Ruby been around since Fedora Core 1, so I'm not sure why they are considered to be new for FC5!
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Hmmm...strange version to pick...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 15, 2006 11:47 PMI'm a little surprised he bangs on a lot about Anaconda (which has changed a little bit from Fedora Core 4, but not substantially) and yum (which has been around since Fedora Core 2 and has had only minor improvements since then), which are probably not the things I'd consider the biggest changes.
The biggest changes are the slew of Java apps that have turned up thanks to the much-improved gcj environment (e.g. Azureus is finally in Fedora Extras - yay!), the inclusion of Mono (I doubt I'll run much written in that though - slocate [or is that "mlocate" now?] and vi are my preferred apps compared to Beagle and Tomboy) and the latest Firefox/Thunderbird (somewhat ridiculously, the FC4 developers refuse to release Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5 on FC4 - the package is in Rawhide but configured to build on FC5 only).
BTW, Festival and Ruby been around since Fedora Core 1, so I'm not sure why they are considered to be new for FC5!
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