[K12OSN] Damn, they are moving fast

[Brian Chase]

Just tried to load FC3 on laptop, it doesn't even get to the graphical 
installer screen.  I run Knoppix on that laptop and everything works 
well also.

Dennis Daniels wrote:

> How well does it support XDMCP choosers and NFS? It might be great for 
> the desktop but as a server __FC2__ is still not very well 
> documented... wireless in FC2 clearly lacked basics. I'm hoping FC3 
> will do better... that said I just loaded knoppix 3.6 and it picked up 
> my internal wireless and had no problem with my three pcimca cards... 
> I can't say that for FC2 :/
>
> Report back on your findings! I'd be interested in hearin how the 
> install fairs for you.
>
> best
> Denny
>
> Brian Chase wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
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