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novicew
2004-11-08, 06:44 PM
FC3 is finally available for download. Anyone interested can download from following mirrors. (http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html)

Would like to here your comments. :)
Life
2004-11-08, 07:28 PM
Aye, I'm downloading the ISOs to one of the servers now, will have it on the tracker later.

Thanks for the link.

I've not had much experience with FC, I have it on a server but I only ever access it over SSH, so not used it as a desktop soloution.

I think its facing strong competetion from arguably its main rival SuSE and the relatively new players like Ubuntu and MEPIS at the moment, but it still seems fairly popular. One thing I've noticed is that they seem to release major version increments pretty quickly, can't have been that long ago since FC2.... not that its a bad thing.
matt
2004-11-11, 12:20 PM
Fedora Core 3 Added
We have added the new fedora release (i386) to the site.... currently not mirroring the dvd but will add that soon.

Fedora Homepage: http://fedora.redhat.com

Fedora MD5's:
db8c7254beeb4f6b891d1ed3f689b412 FC3-i386-disc1.iso
2c11674cf429fe570445afd9d5ff564e FC3-i386-disc2.iso
f88f6ab5947ca41f3cf31db04487279b FC3-i386-disc3.iso
6331c00aa3e8c088cc365eeb7ef230ea FC3-i386-disc4.iso

Download:
Life
2004-11-12, 02:22 AM
Nice one Matt.... I had a problem with the mirrors the other night so I only managed to get a couple of the ISO's, I've put all the torrents in ye olde curses.py so it should be grabbing them all now for seeding.

Let me know if / when we are going to do the DVD for this release.
matt
2004-11-12, 09:57 AM
Nice one Matt.... I had a problem with the mirrors the other night so I only managed to get a couple of the ISO's, I've put all the torrents in ye olde curses.py so it should be grabbing them all now for seeding.

Let me know if / when we are going to do the DVD for this release.

Yes.

i will get it on the server soon
novicew
2004-11-16, 08:53 PM
did any of you try FC3? any good?
anony
2004-11-22, 05:30 AM
>FC3 - 4 CDs.

Hi
There is a 5th CD (Rescue CD) - 76 MB.

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-rescuecd.iso

There is also a DVD version:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/FC3-i386-DVD.iso
Infamous
2004-12-31, 10:00 PM
Hey everyone, im not really a dedicated linux user but im tryin to get there, starting off with red hat Fedora after small amounts of experience with RHL8 and Mandrake10. Ill be seeding Fedora for a good amount of time :) any other ones that are stressed? I have a 160 GB HD for christmas and i dunno what to do with it :D
entr0P
2005-03-23, 09:37 PM
Hi. newb here. i was wondering what the main advantages of fedora over mandrake were. any help will be well recieved even if its contempful.;)
novicew
2005-06-13, 08:18 PM
Hi. newb here. i was wondering what the main advantages of fedora over mandrake were. any help will be well recieved even if its contempful.;)

Hi Entr0P,
It is difficult to give a clear answer answer to your question. However I could give you some facts about both.

Fedora
1) This is a project sponsered by Red Hat Linux (perhaps this status may change soon).
2) Releases are focused on offering bleeding edge applications rather than the stability.
3) Almost all the software packages work with Fedora.
4) Gnome is the default desktop environment.

Mandrake
1) Develop by a commercial enterprise.
2) If you want to have the latest then you have to pay a subscription.
3) Focus on stability rather than bleeding edge applications.
4) KDE is the default desktop environment.

Selecting one over the other is mostly depend on individual taste. If you try them both you would realize that they have more similarities than differences. If you want to know more I would suggest you to visit Distrowatch (http://distrowatch.com).

Hope this will help.

NoviceW