Fedora 7 Review

After looking at Ubuntu 7.04 (Fiesty Fawn) and deciding to replace it with Fedora 7 as soon as it come out, I am happy to report that I've kept my word. Here are my first impressions.

The good:

• 1 CD sized download with all the good stuff.
• Same Gnome goodness I've come to expect from all distributions.
• RAID and LVM support in the installer.
• My "fake RAID" is detected by the installer!
• rpm.livna.org is ready with audio and video codecs
  

The not so good:

• Not sure I like the new desktop theme (Hot air balloons?)
• My PPPoE internet connection won't automatically start. (I'll have to find out why)

Verdict:
A couple of hiccups, but not a completely bad experience. The switch to a single repository, as far as users are concerned is seamless. The creation of a installable Live CD I'm sure was because of "market pressure", but this option is very welcome. I've researched a little bit about what needs to be done to make my own Live CD from the fedora repository and at the moment it seems like it will be a lot of fiddling with rpm and configuration files. Building a Live CD with my photo as a the Desktop banner for my mum is not a click and go process.