Fedora 9 Preview Review
Yesterday the Fedora Project released a "Preview" of Fedora 9. Today Ubuntu released a "Release Candidate" of 8.04 "Hardy Heron" and the openSUSE team released openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1. Since my preferred Linux distribution for the desktop is Fedora, I've been keeping up with all of the test releases. What follows is some commentary about my experiences with the Fedora 9 Preview including an image gallery.
Fedora 9 Preview - the media
Some time ago the Fedora Project decided to follow Ubuntu's lead... and started offering a number of single LiveCDs. They offer a GNOME-based LiveCD as well as a KDE-based one. Since the Fedora Project decided to focus on making it easy for anyone in the community to create their own "spins" a number of other LiveCDs have cropped up including one that is XFCE-based. I downloaded the GNOME LiveCD, the KDE LiveCD, and the DVD media which is NOT a Live media. Since my home computers have 2GB of RAM or less, I just use the i386 flavor rather than the x86_64.
My preferred desktop environment is KDE but I do use a mix of GNOME applications too. One of the things I don't like about the single LiveCD approach is that you have to choose a single desktop environment and as a result you don't get any of the applications available in other desktop applications. So in KDE, you don't have GIMP or Firefox. Since there isn't a whole lot of room, some of the larger apps have to be scrapped for their lighter footprint alternatives... so in the GNOME you get Abiword and Gnumeric rather than OpenOffice.org. If you do a disk install you can certainly install all of the additional applications and desktop environments your heart desires post-install. I generally prefer the DVD (that is for installation only) because with it's larger size it provides a number of desktop environments and applications. I did try out each of the three media I downloaded. The LiveCDs I booted as virtual machines with VirtualBox. I installed the DVD release on the Linux side of my wife's computer... which I use mostly for testing.
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