its a new world...

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look at my os.....

           its FREE==>
          its SLICK========>
its got KILLER APPS===================>
and its DEADLY FAST=======================================================>

is it a bird? is it a plane?or maybe superman?
......no...

Its FEDORA CORE 4.......

the superos

My Experience

boy am i excited....to unravel the new & hot stuff

to be quite honest, i was apprehensive, coz i really hate the feeling that my computer is running slow, its humiliating ..isn't it? but thanks to sayan, who gave me the courage to proceed with the insatllation.

so i inserted the dvd, and booted in from cd...
with my heart pounding, i reached for the return key and pressed it...

anaconda (the installer) started, and asked if i would like to check the disk... i skipped.
next after configuring my processor, monitor keyboard mouse etc it detected my previous Fedora Core 1 installation and asked if i would upgrade or do a fresh installation...

i knew this was the last step for me to turn back... it was like standing on the edges of snowclad mountain with your skateboards on, a dive and you make your mark on fresh powder of the unchartered teritory, or stay back in a reasonably explored land.

i called upon torvalds and stallman...(just kiddin, i dont trouble gods for little things), and dived in....

as the installation began,.. it showed it would take 90 minutes. I wondered if I had done the right thing and kept my fingures crossed.

my nail-biting excitement was stalled as one of my family members(dont remeber who) asked me to get her something from the market. I returned home and found the installation running smooth. I picked up a qt tute in the latest lfy, and moved a bit away from my pc trying ward away the any negetive thoughts, but I was still thinking if i had done the right thing .

after a while, with only two minutes left, I came closer to my pc, monitoring the packages being installed.

suddenly the screen flashed saying a package wasn't found and it couldn't proceed!
though its a familiar sit during installatioin but with only a few seconds away from victory even a minor glitch like this (reminding really bad experiences), gave me cold feet.
I clicked retry and ....it worked! this happened once more, but ulimately it ended fabulously.

sadly enough i had lost track of time. But then I sat with my watch as I rebooted my pc, though start up wasnt much appreciable,( but my Linux loads faster than yours!) once youre at the desktop, u'll know what's speed
and why billu and baldy(walmer) would be kissin ass after a few summers...(hey nothin personal dude... just that youre doomed mr. gates).

.....a brief tour....

well lets start with whats new & hot....

                                    my experience above

Kernel

2.6.11 optimised to squeeze out your P4

Xen virtualisation softare

allows multiple os run on same computer. This stuff is huge, try to read about it on the net and u'll understand what i'm tryin to say

Latest Version of GCC

coders rejoice,your favourite complier's version 4 is here

GNOME 2.10

GNOME has never really impressed me, but a few helpful changes in the main menu is defnitely appreciable

KDE 3.4

lets talk style baby; longhorn....try to learn the GUI technology

OpenOffice.org 2.0

those of you yell at it, believe me it has actually become faster.it uses Oasis OpenDocument XML standard by default,its vendor neutral,transpaerant to users and koffice supports it.

Development Enviornment

lots of goodies like Eclipse IDE,PHP 5.04,Perl 5.8.6,mod_perl 2.0

FC4 works on machines with Power processors, such as PowerPC G4 in Apple Computer's Mac mini.
it supports 32-bit and 64-bit chips, such as Intel's Xeon and AMD's Athlon 64.
it can run even on a 400Mhz Pentium II, obviously you cant expect too much in such a machine,
but throw in 1.5 gb you'll see speed.

Though I havent have the chance of using it that much, i still feel its much much better than previous fedora releases. But having used Debian (knoppix) i'm feeling a bit low ...
theres still no mp3 support if software can be free why cant music?
"apt-get" the package management utility is way ahead... redhat guys must do something about it.