Fedora Core 5 Review

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Fedora Core 5 is a RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat.

This isn't a comprehensive review, its just a quick look at Fedora Core 5 from my personal perspective. Feel free to build on it.
Firstly the graphical installer was brilliant, it is just as easy for newbies as installing windows but much faster. Partitioning a hard disk can be a bit difficult for beginners to figure out but if you accept the defaults its no problem, it also offers you a number of choices for setting up a dual boot system if you have another operating system installed.

It automatically detected and configured my hardware and network setup so I connected to the internet and ran the updater. Using graphical tools I setup the desktop the way I want and started the package manager to see what extra software was available, there's thousands of packages to chose from and all I had to do was tick a box and click install. Its all very impressive, below I've included screenshots of some of the applications I find useful, most of them integrate with the desktop. Overall I found the desktop to be attractive, intuitive and easy to customize.

You can download it from the Fedore Project download page.

Desktop and the Applications Menu

The Fedora Core 5 Desktop	Application menu	Accessories menu	Games menu
Graphics menu	Internet menu	Office menu	Programming tools menu
Sound and video menu	System tools menu	Browsing Audio files	Browsing Vido files

Some of the Applications

Package Manager for installing software	Viewing Games to install	Taking notes	Notes can link to other notes
Firefox web browser	Rhythmbox Audio player manager	Feed reader	Feed reader condensed view
Groupware email, address book, calendar	Free Voip phone	Editor for webdesigners and programmers	Bittorent program