Fedora Core 6 Released
It’s been through a lot of testing and released candidates so it should be pretty solid now. I did try out FC5 on a spare hd and it was very smooth and polished. Gnome ran very well with no issues. It seems they’ve done a great job on bugfixes and making it into a nice clean usable desktop. For more information, check out the Fedora Core Homepage where you can download the latest version through bittorrent or via ftp.
I attempted an install of Fedora Core 6. I say attempted because when it was about 90% done installing the necessary files, a tear fell from my LCD indicating that the package for the optional Gnome Applet “Byzanz” was corrupted. Fedora proceeded to implode at that point. Although I did not check the md5sums and also neglected to run the check disk option prior to the install, I have never had a problem with a bad burn. Ignoring those obvious factors, wouldn’t it be nice if the Fedora Core installer was smart enough to know that byzanz was a file that was hardly required to run the system. I could definitely understand a missing or corrupted kernel, but there are many packages that do not have anything else that depends on them whereas skipping such a package would make no difference whatsoever. I will likely try the install again and select less packages and see what happens. I did also check the md5sum and it was different than what was on the site; however, I downloaded it twice, it came up with both ISO’s having the exact same md5sum so it is more likely that the wrong md5sum was published on the ftp.