[K12OSN] Damn, they are moving fast

[Brian Chase]

Well, there's another Fedora Core out, FC3, featuring new Gnome and KDE, 
and other goodies like wireless tools and SE Linux, which is a major 
security enhancement.  Any of you KDE fans that use KWallet, now there's 
a Keyring application in Gnome which operates similarly, which give some 
competition to KDE.  I still prefer using Kget integration with 
Konqueror for mirror downloads, but you can do that fine in Gnome so it 
looks like I'll be sticking with Gnome for awhile.  Firefox and 
Thunderbird are also included.

Oh, yeah, another very cool and valuable feature, the email program that 
looks just like Outlook called Evolution now has the ability to connect 
directly to a Microsoft Exchange server and use all the groupware 
functions on it, not that I've been able to test it, but it's got the 
selection in "server type".  This is pretty major for introducing Linux 
in large corporate environments and not short-changing those that use 
Linux from participating in shared tasks, calendar items, and public 
folders.

Not sure what this means, but FC3 partitioning looks very different, 
didn't get screenshot, but I think it uses LVM by default.  Logical 
Volume Management, hmmm.  Just started reading about it but don't know 
the benefits yet.  Comments....?

Just loaded the new 64-bit version on the Opteron box, pretty sweet, but 
still has similar look and feel.  Had it loaded now for just a day, so 
I'm sure I'll find a few more things that could use improvement.

Other than that, no major breakthrough's in my Linux work, except maybe 
for the squirrelmail plug ins, enabling full groupware functionality on 
my webmail pages.