| Fedora Core 5 ready for corporate desktops, reviewer reports |
Apr. 11, 2006
Red Hat's Fedora Core 5, which went prime time late last month, has proven to perform well in server and developer roles. Now, eWEEK Labs says, Fedora has matured enough to suitable for use as a mainstream corporate desktop.
"During tests, eWEEK Labs was impressed with the fast-moving distribution's updated SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) and Xen virtualization components, broadened programming language and tool support, and hot-off-the-compiler GNOME 2.14 desktop environment," wrote eWEEK's Jason Brooks.
"Security and bug-fix updates for Fedora are also freely available and easy to fetch using Fedora's yum package manager. What's more, since Fedora is so closely related to the widely used Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and is rather popular in its own right), companies that deploy Fedora Core 5 shouldn't have trouble finding administrators with experience using the distribution -- another potential cost savings, compared with more esoteric Linux distributions," Brooks added.
Fedora Core 5 is freely available and may be downloaded from an FTP mirror or through the bittorrent peer-to-peer network. (Instructions for both methods are available here.)
A look at the desktop search, deskbar, and other features of Fedora Core 5 is available in this eWEEK slide show.
Read the complete eWEEK Labs Fedora Core 5 review here:
Fedora Core 5: Shape Shifter
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