Don't get me wrong its a beautiful looking distro, icons, fonts, speed,
but some things that were automatically detected, like my soundblaster 16 sound card, are not detected in Fedora Core 2. Actually when I run sndconfig I get this error:

"you don't seem to be running a kernel with modular sound enabled"

Why wouldn't they include modular sound in the 2.6 kernel?

When I run the soundcard detection program I get this:

"The snd-es1371 driver could not be loaded. This soundcard may not be compatible with Red Hat Linux."

Well it worked fine in Redhat 9 and Fedora Core 1!

Also this is supposed to be a cutting edge distro, Why can't they INCLUDE Java and Flash like Mandrake and Xandros and even Knoppix????

Or is it just the fact this is a test version and I should just be patient and wait for the final release??

Ummm... It's a test release. They're working on making the new 2.6 kernel work. It's not like it's just an update to the last 2.4, it's a new kernel with new modules.

Thanks for the tip, was considering, now I'm not.
Thanks Again

seems to be an issue with sound, go to http://distrowatch.com/, and read one of the reviews, can,t remember which one. but it had something there on the sound

Remember - this is still test 1 - those of us who are testing are pulling our updates straight from Rawhide - something's bound to be broken.

Many things are for me. PCMCIA doesn't start correctly, madwifi segfaults when loading into the 2.6 kernel, no console beep, just to start... However, once it's closer to release time, many of these bugs will be ironed out.

I can say, however, that this is probably the fastest distro (including Gentoo) that my laptop has seen - ever. I'm looking forward to the final release, because already it feels like I've received a hardware upgrade. Alot of this can be attributed to the newer 2.6 kernel, however the new read-ahead service which pre-caches frequently used programs into RAM helps quite a bit as well since on a laptop, the disk I/O is a killer.