How to Upgrade to Fedora Core 3, Part 1
This Recipe is a sequel to Teach Linux to do Windows, Part 1 and Part 2, in which I described how to build a Linux workstation, based on Fedora Core 2 (FC2), that could run Windows legacy software as well as Linux via W9.x running in the Win4Lin virtual environment.
I have revisited the topic because a user who does installations and upgrades is likely to have problems; FC2 is that out-of-date. So if you want to run Win4Lin with Fedora Core 3 or 4, these instructions should work for you. You'll simply do an installation instead of an upgrade, and you won't have to worry about previously installed applications breaking. Note: The patch for FC5 is not available yet.
The good news is, anyone running a Linux FC2-based appliance installation—as described in my earlier Recipes, Building a Linux Appliance, Part 1, and Part 2—probably has no compelling need for the upgrade.
Like some other Open Source distributions, the Fedora Core upgrade cycle is only a few months out. So staying on top of this isn't like trying to keep up with the comparatively leisurely pace of Windows.
Red Hat's Fedora Core Linux desktop distribution has recently been upgraded to version 3, or FC3 for short. The FC2 to FC3 upgrade is basically the equivalent of going from Windows 95 to Windows 98SE, not from Win98 to Win2000. In other words, this is an incremental upgrade, not a radical change. Having said that, FC3's new features include an upgraded GNOME/KDE windows managers, a compiler upgrade, larger pool of drivers, and the Evolution 2.0 mail client.
That may not sound like much, so why bother to upgrade?
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