Difference: FedoraNotes (2 vs. 3)

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I like Fedora GNU/Linux since it's split from Red Hat. It appears to be moving in Debian's direction, i.e. it's a community-driven distribution. The key difference between it and Debian, though, is that it will likely have more/better commercial support since it's the baseline for Red Hat's commercial distribution.

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You'll want to install apt, which is a front-end to rpm. It makes it very easy to download and install packages because it knows what other packages each package depends on. http://fedoranews.org/jorge/howto/howto02.shtml

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< As I write this (March 2004) Fedora Core 1 is the current release and Fedora Core 2 has just entered test. I installed Core 1 and decided to use apt to upgrade, based on the intructions at http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/apt-fc2/.

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> Fedora Core 2 by default will hard-wire network interface eth0 to the MAC address of your network card, which seems unneccessary, and makes cloning system disks difficult. You can change this behavior using the system-config-network tool. Choose "Ethernet" then "Edit" then on the "Hardware" tab you can un-check the box that tells it to use a specific MAC address. Don't do this if you've got more than one ethernet card, though.

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