A quick look at Fedora Core 4

Fedora Core is the offspring of Red Hat of what was previously their Red Hat Linux range. For a history of Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core, you can have a look here. Anyway, Fedora Core 4 is what could have been Red Hat Linux 13 if Red Hat had not decided to turn Red Hat Linux into a community project. This is not a review but just a quick look at the various bits and pieces that interest me. Fedora Core 3 was a disappointment to many because it was slow and did not included many new ground-breaking features. The rise of Ubuntu Linux has also seen as some as a "threat" to Fedora Core but hopefully, Fedora Core 4 should can that. Fedora Core 4 (FC4) fixes most of the problems in FC3. It is a lot quicker and includes many new exciting features like GCC 4, Xen Virualization, OpenOffice.org 2 Beta and Desktop Enhancements (ClearLooks theme). Also, the Fedora Foundation should hopefully make Fedora Core more of a community distribution and less of a Red Hat product. The plus side of this is that features like MP3 support and DVD support can be included as standard.