hey guys, this evening i decided to whipe out my installation of suse 9.1 and replace it fedora core 3. I chose core 3 because my local bookstore didnt have any books with core 4 installation disks, and ive read a few posts stating that core 4 isnt quite as stable as 3.

First off, installation: Wow, everything installed in 15 minutes! that's the fastest OS installation ive ever seen. I didnt include every pack but the installation was up to around 3.7GB. I couldnt believe how fast this thing was up and running.

Look and Feel: This comes as no surprise but everything looks and feels like Red Hat 9. That's fine with me because ive always been a fan of redhat. The gui isnt as flashy as suse's but again, thats fine with me.

Performance: The system seems noticably faster. Again that could be because the gui doesnt seem as animated as suse's

Hardware Support: Everything installed fine except for my gigabit ethernet card. I'll have to download those and install the drivers myself. Not a huge deal because i have an onboard nic that works fine.

I'll probably reply to this post in a few days once ive had some more time to play around with fedora.

the initial media support after installation is god awful. Helix player cant play anything, real player 10 blows, totem player gets errors, xmms just sits there looking stupid. But, after a little work Mplayer works great

evilentity installs and runs in 4 minutes adn plays dvd from install and rips cds, and edits videos with about 4 different editors. and obliterates any windows partition, so seems pretty nice to me.