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I've heard praises for the new release of Fedora Core—Fedora Core 5—released 4 days ago. So I decided to be an early adopter of this release. I backed up everything and started with my usual routine of trying to do an upgrade first, if that fails, a fresh install.

Well, the upgrade worked. I just rebooted to the Fedora Core 5 DVD and answered a few questions to kick off the installation process. The screen said it will take 70 minutes. I waited for 5 minutes to see if it the prediction was accurate. It was. So I went to bed. When I got up this morning, the installation is complete. Reboot. Fixed X configuration (I was using the nVidia driver, which never upgraded well.) And I'm here, Firefox 1.5, Native Eclipse, even my hand installed Qemu. Printing worked. The internet worked. Everything. So I'm really happy.

I'll fill you in more with my experiences in a week or two.

Here's a couple of screenshots:

This one is for Kevin's amusement:

Interesting tidbits from the release notes:

• Geronimo, the Apache J2EE server, is included in FC5
• .NET support through Mono
• LinuxThreads is gone. NPTL has completely taken over
• Everything is compiled with -fstack-protector to thwart buffer overflow attacks
• Screencast with istanbul