I upgraded my desktop to Fedora Core 6 which was released earlier this week. Its a pretty sweet system. One of the coolest features is that booting and installing from USB devices finally works as advertised. Installing from my USB hard drive took about 15 minutes, even faster than the network installations. Gnome 2.16 is pretty sweet and Fedora has lots of new eye candy.
Most of the external repositories such as Freshrpms and Livna already have the majority of their RPMS built for FedoraCore 6, at least on i386. This made a huge difference in pulling in alot of the smaller applications that don’t fall under the Fedora Extras umbrella, due to licensing restrictions or other reasons.
All in all it’s a great release and it is definitely worth the time and the hassle that sometimes come along with upgrading Linux distributions.
