Hello Clement Lefebvre, While on the lookout for good reviews on the latest release of Fedora Core, I came across your excellent one (http://www.linuxforums.org/reviews/fedora_core_5_review.html) and I would like to add some comments. I like the way the review starts out with a look at the buzz around the release and the community rather than just the software bits. Its quite surprising that many reviews completely drop off that aspect of a open source project. While Anaconda has gone through a major revamp in Fedora Core 5, we have been receiving feedback on going the extra mile by improving the level of polish and tackling better some of the minor issues. The ability to test a keyboard layout seems to be one of them that you have highlighed in the review. It doesnt seem to be a requested feature so far, so I went ahead and filed a RFE (Request for Enhancement) against Anaconda. Refer to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186408 for more details. I would appreciate if you can add more details to it. We have this feedback procedure on both the release notes and the release itself documented in our release notes that you seem to be fond of reading at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/#sn- Feedback. You have remarked that you didnt like that the Firstboot program asked a few questions on well... the first boot instead of Anaconda asking everything upfront. There is a reason behind that which might not be immediately obvious. All the options asked in Anaconda are required steps to complete the installation while the rest of the Firstboot ones are optional (though highly recommended). This two step process helps streamline the interface better while letting the user skip the optional steps easily. While IRC is indeed a useful application combined with the Freenode Fedora IRC channels such as #fedora, it is not in general a popular means of communication for a typical desktop user. We probably need to set aside our Linux-y view of things a bit on that. What you consider a inconsistency on the menu is something that has been decided after careful thought and the menus have even more streamlined specifically in Fedora Core 5 by the Red Hat desktop team. In general applications are named after the task they perform rather than the application name itself with the exception of a few well known brands like Firefox. This has been found to be beneficial in actual usability tests where many of the candidates who found out the application quickly cited Firefox as a familiar name associated with a Internet browser that aided them in performing the task or browsing the web quickly. The conclusion that ... "I never paid too much attention to what was going on in Fedora. In fact, the last release I tried was Fedora Core 1. So I didn't have much expectations about "Bordeaux", even though I got more and more excited over the release after I had talked to some people from the Fedora community. I have to say though: this distribution impressed me in a way that no other distribution did before. Some things should of course be improved, such as the automatic hardware detection or, as mentioned above, the menus. But apart from these little details I can confidently say that Fedora Core 5 is the best desktop GNU/Linux distribution available at the moment. Suse and Ubuntu are working on their next release, for sure this Fedora release placed the bar higher than it has ever been before. A giant step was made in making Linux ready for the desktop and “Bordeaux” is proof of this." is indeed great to hear but I would appreciate if you can let us know which hardware you found was not detected or auto configured by default on the system to see whether we can improve on that in our subsequents releases of Fedora. Thank you for evaluating and providing detailed feedback in the form of a seemingly popular review on Fedora Core 5. Rahul -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
