Aaron Tiensivu's Blog

It is probably best just to point you to the Fedora Wiki FC6 page for all the latest and greatest news about Fedora Core 6.

Here is a short list of what is new:

• Installer multi repo support. iSCSI, firewire and USB storage installation
• New DNA theme
• Dejavu LGC font on locales where it shows a good difference like Greek language.
• GCJ web plugin playing an interesting applet
• Compiz eye candy + planned integration for switching the window manager easily.
• Pupplet - Yum based updater applet
• Brand new system-config-printer
• Xen virt-manager user interface
• Eclipse 3.2
• Alacarte menu editor
• Orca Screenreader
• setroubleshoot - SELinux graphical trouble shooting tool.
• Dogtail - desktop automation and testing framework
• GNUCash 2.0
• Fedora on Intel Macs

A lot of people have commented to me that even though the download links appeared yesterday, that Firefox 2.0 really wasn't officially released yesterday.

Apparently due to all the news sites reporting the availability caused quite a stir overall and I can see both sides of the coin on the argument.

Personally, I think the Mozilla admins should talk to the Redhat admins on how they stage their releases to mirrors.

Typically you know a new Fedora release is coming down the pike when the "real" directory appears but remains unreadable to anonymous users. Once all the files make it to all the mirrors listed (in general), they'll "open up the flood gates" and let people get access to those directories.

I think overall that would have made for a less drama filled release schedule.

If you want more background on it all, check out the posts made here, here and here..

Good to see Beta 2 retired and the final version (for now) released.
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I don't agree with this, and think it borderlines on false advertisement.

You can read about it in a thread here.

I think without trying very hard it is possible to hit this limit on a simple 1xRTT connection, let alone an EVDO connection, doing legitimate non-p2p traffic.

#1. Web browsing
#2. Downloading Windows Updates and other programs
#3. E-mail and RPC over HTTP with Outlook
#4. VOIP

Thankfully Sprint actually adheres to the word 'unlimited' as long as you aren't doing something stupid like setting up a bandwidth hogging server on the connection.