To continue in the theme of techy posts, last week I decided I&#39;d had enough of testing Vista and I wasn&#39;t prepared to go back to such a backwards operating system as XP. I needed something fresh... I needed something funky, I needed something free.... and there it was! Fedora Core 6 was released on the 23rd October, the same day as Firefox 2. Granted, it wasn&#39;t quite as bug-tested as Firefox has been, since Firefox had three official Release Candidates, and there were a few problems with the installer, and a big boo boo with the kernel being being installed incorrectly on i686 machines and an i586 kernel was installed accidentally. But the comparison between Firefox and Fedora Core don&#39;t really exist, they&#39;re two <em>totally</em> different types of software. The kernel thing is no real biggie, a kernel update / patch can be released at a later date to address the problem.<br /><br />Getting the nVidia driver to install properly from livna was a pain in the royal arse, since the <a href=&quot;https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941&quot; rel=&quot;external&quot;>problem</a> with the i586 kernel caused major issues. Once the drivers were done it was up, up and away with the beautiful desktop effects that can&#39;t be rivaled by any of M&#036;&#39;s &quot;Aero&quot; bull, ever imagined having your desktop as one side of a cube, and being able to rotate that cube to display the other sides as separately functioning desktops?<br />