Having now configured Fedora as I like it, I can now show you some screenshots of the current desktop.
The desktop with the two gnome-panels on autohide
I appreciate that this particular image is quite unremarkable. However, what the screenshot can’t tell you is how fast it is. It boots very quickly (boot to login prompt in under a minute, which considering the fact it’s Unix, and without optimisation, isn’t bad at all) and Compiz works without a hitch.
Wireless, bluetooth over USB, sleep, display, video chip, trackpad, et al ALL worked straight out of the box. Don’t ask me how they did that.
OpenOffice.org 3.0, which, you will note, IS in the repositories, unlike in Ubuntu.
OpenOffice 3.0 works very well, even if the installation process is somewhat fiddly (you have to yum each individual component.) I might have been able to save a bit of time with package groups… probably not, though.
Fedora has an About this Computer option in the System menu, which links to this panel in System Monitor
Overall, Fedora is very impressive, very fast, and very polished - more polished that Ubuntu Intrepid, in fact (yes, even the GNOME variant). There are still some issues (WLAN won’t work when waking from sleep, for example) but that’s SELinux’s fault, it seems. After generating a policy around it, it worked just fine.
