It’s that time of the year again, a new version of Fedora Core has been released . I’m dedicating my 20Mbit line now, to get that baby so I can install it later on. While I’m waiting on that, I might as well share some of my first glance thoughts.

I must say that it looks pretty darn good at first glance, as with every new version there are some changes worth mentioning:

• Gnome 2.2.0 and the new Nodoka theme
• Online Desktop
  I have to say this feature suprises me, I’m still not very fond of the whole online desktop idea.The things I have stored on my ‘private desktop’ should stay there, although perhaps I’m still too paranoid in that section. I purpose that I will at least try it, I’m ignorant enough to use Gmail, so…
• KDE 3.5.8
• Xfce 4.4.1 I’m pro Xfce
• Wireless support improved through NetworkManager 0.7, I’ve already seen some positive feedback
• PulseAudio is enabled (and installed) by default, no experience with that yet.
• CodecBuddy, CodecBuddy is supposed to help people pick open format codecs in stead of patented technology. Personally I’d rather have it so they had a “CodedBuddy” being a program that gives me the option to easily install many ‘patented’ technologies at my own risk…
• Compiz Fusion, way out of my video cards league for now…
• IcedTea, the direct effect of Sun Microsystems releasing their JDK as open source earlier this year.
• OpenOffice.org 2.3
• Eclipse 3.3
• And many more improvements like for instance improved support for Bluetooth devices, power management, better security features, new graphical firewall tool, Kiosk functionality through SELinux, secure remote management for Xen/KVM/QEMU and performance improvement to Yum/Pirut/Pup (Wonder if this is related to Daniel’s excellent C metadata parser for yum..).

You can grab the latest version from the Fedora Project website, wait until I’m done though