This afternoon, Fedora Core 3 will be officially released. I have been running the final release candidate for over a week now, and am quite pleased with it.
I can now drop my digital camera in its cradle, and push the button, and a menu will pop up asking whether I want to download my photos, opening gThumb to view and manipulate the photos. (This is a features of the Gnome desktop.) Also new to Fedora Core is the presense of Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird .8 as part of default distribution. After a few days of using FC3, I read the Release Notes.
Yesterday, as an impulse item, Jack picked up a 128M Micro Advantage memory stick at OfficeMax. I just plugged it into a cable, and an icon popped up on my desktop allowing me to browse the empty device. Then I dragged a few folders to it and everything just worked as desired.
It is very odd to think that a small device that weighs almost nothing can hold six times as much data as the hard drive on our first Intel machine, an XT clone.
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November 8th, 2004 at 5:32 pm
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November 8th, 2004 at 6:21 pm
Don’t forget, it only cost $20.
December 12th, 2004 at 1:07 pm
From FC2 to FC3 with yum
After reading how others successfully upgraded from FC2 to FC3 with very few problems, I attempted it. And, yes, I know that I said I would wait. I followed the instructions for upgrading using yum offered by: Brad Hutchinson…