The booting procedure was straight forward and plymouth(the graphical boot loader for Fedora) is really fast. It's much faster when compared with Ubuntu boot proces, but the desktop preparation process took more time than Ubuntu.
For testing purpose I used the Malayalam interface. It's really cool to see the traditional Malayalam font(Meera) on the desktop interface.The default input scheme, SCIM, supports four input methods - inscript, itrans, mozhi and swanalekha. Here is a screenshot
The Fedora Live CD contains almost all of the popular applications such as Mozilla Firefox, Pidgin Instant Messenger, Transmission BitTorrent Client, Totem Movie Player, RhythmBox Music Player, GIMP, Gthumb, Gedit, SCIM, etc.. But it's really disappointing that OpenOffice.org is not included in the Live CD version, instead Abiword is included. Abiword is a great word processor, but it's not at all a complete office suite.
Live CDs are commonly used by end users who only requires a web browser, instant messenger or an Office suite. It may be nice if the Fedora community takes steps to include OpenOffice in the Live CDs so that it can gain more popularity among end users.
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It is certainly possible to include OpenOffice.org but then you would have to remove a lot of packages to compensate. Instead, we have choosen to include a lot more locales by default. It is fairly easy to create your own live cd. Maybe you should try that.
@rahulsundaram
I hope SMC will come up with a plan soon.
Good news
hello etta, You said fedora live boot is faster than ubuntu live, but i think ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is faster than fedora 10 in booting. but after logging in, fedora is the boss. If i'm worng, please correct me.
@Ershad,
I should have collected some statistics as a proof. But it's too late, I passed the CD to somebody else :(. May be I can test F11 and post a comparison.
That's fine, it would be better if you post a comparison between major linux distros for novice like me. Best Wishes !!
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