Open Elements

Last month, my girlfriend gave me a Linux Troubleshooting book so that I could troubleshoot my current Linux system. The book is focused on Red Hat’s Fedora Core distribution and I my current Linux system runs Novel’s openSUSE (a minor difference).

Since I don’t use Fedora Core 6 (FC6), I decided to wipe clean my Windows Vista machine and install Fedora on it so that I could better utilize my Linux book.

Installation:

The installation process is intuitive and straight forward. With this installation, I decided to accept all the defaults which means that you get Gnome as your desktop environment. With just a few clicks I was done!

Looks:

Fedora Core 6 looks awesome and feels solid. I like the Gnome interface, primarily because it is streamlined. The desktop is very minimal with only a few essential icons.

Next Steps:

FC6 comes bundled with Open Office 2.0, Gimp, Evolution and Firefox 1.5 and much much more. My next obvious task is to install Firefox 2.0 along with some themes and plug-ins. So far, I am very excited to work with this Linux distro. The Fedora Core line of products is known for being on the bleeding edge of technology. This should be fun, and if it doesn’t work out, I can always go back to Windows Vista.

Mario Seijo
web designer
www.openElements.info