I just want to know:
1)Fedora 8 got driver for ATI Radeon HD3450?
2)Can it play MP3 with amarok?
3)Does it mount windows NTFS partition automatically?

how about Fedora 9, i am going to download it.

anyone can provide me answer?

I down load Fedora 9 and install it , but reinstall Fedora 8 for my it works better
But up until now Mandriva 2008 and Mandriva 2008 Spring the only ones that every thing works out of the box any how for me

regards

ron

why do you reinstall Fedora 8 instead of 9?

Naw, Fedora 9 has now come out, there are probably already bugs fixed that were in the original release, and the software is newer. So go with the newest version; version 8 doesn't receive too much upgrades anymore I guess, so for security alone it's better to stick with the newer release.

1) See ATI site - if there is a linux driver for your card model, the answer is yes. There are non-proprietary drivers for ATI card that ought to work with any ATI card (driver "ati", or "radeon" for radeons), but they don't provide hardware accelaration. For that (if you like to play games, use 3d desktop effects, ...) you need the proprietary ATI driver, which you should install trough Fedora's package management - you can download the installer from ATI's site and use it, but it is a lot easier trough Fedora's own package management tools. If your card is supported, it says so at the ATI site, so see there.

2) Yes, Amarok does not depend on the distribution it is installed in, nor do it's libraries. You probably just need to install the mp3 codec/library (or libraries) yourself after the setup, because in some countries such libraries/codecs could get Fedora folks into trouble, so they have to leave the decicion of using them for the user. See which engine Amarok uses (probably either Xine or GStreamer) and then just use Fedora's package manager to install the relevant extra libraries or codec packages for that engine. There are howtos on the web if you are unsure on how it happens - but it's not difficult.

3) Not sure. It should at least be able to mount NTFS partitions read-only (kernel module ntfs), but if the read-write driver (ntfs-3g) isn't there by default, I think it can be installed after setup quite easily. It's again just a question of installing a new package.

The questions aren't actually Fedora-related; they're Linux related in general. Fedora is just a collection of software and configurations for them, and since all those three can be made work in any Linux distribution I know about, they can be done in Fedora. In Fedora you have a fairly easy-to-use package management system, so adding new packages (and thus new functionality) to the system is not difficult at all.

I'm installing Fedora 9 onto a virtual machine right now, and can probably give more precise answers to your questions a little later.

may i know what kind of virtual machine can i use in Windows to install Fedora?

vmware might be the choice. Their non-commercial/free-of-charge versions.

Though if your hardware (cpu) doesn't allow full virtualization, it's going to be slow.

Addition information to your questions: Amarok does use Xine engine by default, so install xine-lib-extras package to get support for additional media types:
I believe at least fglrx driver for ATI cards is available in the Livna reposities after you enable them - and probably if ntfs-3g module isn't in the kernel by default, you can get it from there too. To be able to mount external partitions (such as Windows partitions) as a normal user, you need to give others than root permission to do so; for this see the System menu's Settings submenu's System submenu where there is a tool to modify the security policies; there's a place for storage options, see there.

I reinstall Fedora 8 because it works more flexible and it is stable as a rock
And I have the impression that kde4 is not yet finish

all the best

Use virtualbox, available for windows too.
It has almost all the features in vmware. But it comes in very less size and its not resource-hungry.

I am using mandriva 2008.1 Spring in one of my IDE HDD, i will buy another SATA HDD to install Fedora.