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. <\/p>\n
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<\/a>. <\/p>\n Yesterday, as an impulse item, Jack picked up a 128M Micro Advantage memory stick<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading Fedora Core 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnulinux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-eY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}