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O.K., so over the last few days I've tried out different distributions and I now finally decided on Fedora Core 2 (I love the Nautilus browsing).
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that's actually Gnome, which is not specific to Fedora. Fedora just has Gnome as the default desktop environment, while most others have KDE as the default.
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1. When the bootloader starts I can choose between a Fedora Core and a Fedora Core-smp. I have a RH Linux 9 Bible I've searched through for an answer but without luck. What's the difference? What's smp?
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smp will boot a kernel for multiprocessor support, if you have more than one cpu.
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2. The up2date tells me I have 277 updates "waiting for me". Can I safely in installe the updates without risking anything or should I choose which ones I want?
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use the updater at your own risk. i've had problems in the past with it (lost internet connection, kernel update killed my system, etc.). generally it's good, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it.