Fedora Core 5 Released

[mandy]

Mono to Be Included in Fedora Core 5

The Mono open-source development platform based on .Net will be in the next version of the Fedora core Linux distribution.

Mono is a project led by Novell to deliver a set of .Net compatible tools, including a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime.

In addition, de Icaza said Mono users should look into some of the "tasty new languages" Mono supports, including Boo, IronPython and Nemerle.

full article: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1909674,00.asp

[mandy]

Fedora Core 5 has been released.  You can download the CD images here: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fe...ux/core/5/

download and installation instructions here: http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/install.html

Fedora Core 5 release notes are available here: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/

Apache 2.2, MySQL 5.0 and PostgreSQL 8.1 are packaged with the Core 5 release

[jezebel]

I'm not tryin' it, you try it.
Nuh uh, I'm not tryin' it, you try it.
Hey, let's get Mikey to try it!
Yeah, he'll try any OS!

[bargainbloodhound]

I'm not trying it yet either...especially the Apache 2.2 and mySQL 5.0 parts of it.  We're just getting around to finally retiring our last server running Apache 1.3.x/mySQL 3.23.x and moving that server to Core 4/Apache 2.0/mySQL 4.1.  I prefer stability over running a still largely untested release in order to immediately having the latest features.

[regic]

[quote author=bargainbloodhound link=topic=2122.msg11231#msg11231 date=1142996358]
I'm not trying it yet either...especially the Apache 2.2 and mySQL 5.0 parts of it.  We're just getting around to finally retiring our last server running Apache 1.3.x/mySQL 3.23.x and moving that server to Core 4/Apache 2.0/mySQL 4.1.  I prefer stability over running a still largely untested release in order to immediately having the latest features.
[/quote]

mySQLmySQLmySQLmySQLblablablahdumbdumbdumb. I voted for PostgreSQL.

[mandy]

A review of Fedora Core 5:

I was never a Fedora fan myself. I started using Slackware Linux, then I got addicted to the Debian APT package management and I finally ended up running Kubuntu. I never paid too much attention to what was going on in Fedora. In fact, the last release I tried was Fedora Core 1. So I didn't have much expectations about "Bordeaux", even though I got more and more excited over the release after I had talked to some people from the Fedora community. I have to say though: this distribution impressed me in a way that no other distribution did before. Some things should of course be improved, such as the automatic hardware detection or, as mentioned above, the menus. But apart from these little details I can confidently say that Fedora Core 5 is the best desktop GNU/Linux distribution available at the moment...

full article: http://www.linuxforums.org/reviews/fedor...eview.html

And another review:

Pros:
- Great decreased memory requirements
- Faster to load and operate than before
- Enhanced Xen & SELinux support
- New package management tools
- Mono and Beagle are included
- Software sound mixing works
- Free as in speech Java stack

Cons:
- Suspend-to-RAM didn't work as advertised
- No phone tools (PDA support hit and miss)
- A pain to install non-free stuff manually
- No iMovie/iDVD-style applications
- No UI for most Bluetooth profiles
- No Gnome menu editor included
- No Fast User Switch applet

Rating: 7.8/10

full article: http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14111