To continue in the theme of techy posts, last week I decided I'd had enough of testing Vista and I wasn'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'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't really exist, they'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="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941" rel="external">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't be rivaled by any of M$'s "Aero" 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 />