Due to be released on May 24th (my pay day), it's going to be the best distribution of Linux so far! In my opinion, this will blow that new Ubuntu distribution away. What? I don't care if Dell will be using Ubuntu on their machines, Ubuntu is a Linux-for-noobs and should be avoided.

Fedora 7 will be one of the fastest booters/shutter-downers, and the performance will be screamingly fast, and much more tuned than its Fedora Core 6 buddy.

This thread will serve as... a review! Including an installation guide for those who are scared to do the whole trial-and-error thing. Just... give me a few weeks because it isn't released yet...

Sounds cool, will there be a live edition?

Indeed there will be, in KDE and Gnome variants. I prefer Gnome as it is faster and easier.

Ah, cool, I'll have to check it out, well, if I can get around to it...

This post came from the Fedora 7 Test 4 i386 Live CD! Nice!

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/ ... enshot.png (1024x768 image)

You use pidgin too.

It was previously known as Gaim, which I had been using for a loooooong long time.

Ah, I was wondering what pidgin was. Gaim had to change for legal issues, didn't they?

That's right

http://www.pidgin.im/pidgin/news/latest ... ow_pidgin/

Yeah, lol, looks pretty cool.

Anyway, you got a live disk running?

Yeah, at the moment I've only got one copy of the live CD.

It's very fast, for a live CD at least.

Seriously though; everything works... If you want to install Adobe Flash plug-in, you just click Next, Next, Finish... same with Java Runtime. It's very, very smooth. It picks up even more hardware than Fedora Core 6. It picked up the graphics driver on my laptop, wireless LAN driver, Ethernet driver, sound driver, everything!

And the fonts look great.

Installing when using a live CD? How does that work?

It uses your RAM as a virtual hard drive

Ok, noob question: What's a live cd?

A live CD is a CD you can boot from and use without even seeing your hard drive. It's like a safe testing environment. Great for checking out different distributions of Linux.

Ah, cleaver, shame it's not preinstalled, though.

Ah, like those ubuntu disks where you could boot into linux without installing it?

Yeah, apart from it sucks less than Ubuntu.

Ok.

Another thing, would this work better than XP, and how compatible is it with games and other programs?

It would definitely work better than XP. It is probably 75% compatible with all Windows applications out there. Programs like Adobe Photoshop can be emulated through WINE (a Windows Emulator). OpenGL is just as up to scratch on Linux as it is on Windows, and it's the most powerful graphics API available to Linux that I know of at the moment. It's about as good as DirectX 9. The next version of OpenGL will be a DirectX 10 contender.

Interesting, how hard is WINE to use?

It's almost completely transparent - you won't even know it's there, as if it is part of the Operating System. Just download an .exe file and double click it to run it just like everything else. Very smooth.

Have you ever had any problems with the emulator?

Yes.

I tried to install the Vodafone Mobile Connect version 7 software on to a Fedora Core 6 laptop using an old Sierra Wireless AirCard 750 PCMCIA jobby. Anyway, the software installed like a dream - it just didn't pick up the PCMCIA card. I wasn't expecting it to though, it's a bit err.. specialised for Windows.

And Locomotion works perfect (better than on Windows) but the sound doesn't work properly.

That's all I've tried at the moment.

Looking to try anything else? Does Steam work on this thing?