The Linux Project – Part 2 Fedora

So it is a little soon but I was bored so I decided I’ll review the latests Fedora release (Fedora and all in all I really didn’t like it. For performance off the live cd it was very slow even for a live cd and I hit a point where it just stoped. This was defenitly a very windows ME like version of Linux. It was very buggy, slow, there was no wireless and I couldn’t open up the network manager. I couldn’t even access my harddrive but when I pluged in my iPod it poped up right away which I found strange. There was no option to even get mp3 codecs in the defaul media player.  Programs were plentiful, yet I can’t tell you what any of them really were it was a guessing game trying to find what to use and I didn’t see anything like The Gimp or Firefox or Gaim all I saw was oddly named programs starting with a K propietary to Fedora and possible the KDE desktop. However for lack of an IM client and a browser that felt like IE 6 and just the feeling of an older version of windows with some widgets and no name propietary software I was very unimpressed and displeased. The look and feel of the system alright, like I said very windows like so the adverage windows user would be able to navagate it clearly. I did break the rules on this review again though because after 5 minuits of trying to get to wordpress I could not stand it any longer, and I couldn’t find any program that would have any use. If I were to have to chose between Windows ME and Fedora 8 sadly I would take Windows ME no questions asked.