Prominent spot in the assemblage of Linux distributions. The LiveCD provided can be used directly without installing, or can install the OS onto the hard disk. If you choose to install to hard disk drive, Fedora's graphical installer leads you step by step all the way and this takes around 12 minutes. Time taken to boot up has been reduced, with the new "Plymouth" that adds eye-candy to the otherwise boring 30 seconds it takes to get the computer ready for use with menus and a desktop (the GNOME 2.24.1 interface by default). Once started, it is hardly ever sluggish, and was very responsive on a PC with 512 MB of RAM. All hardware worked just fine, since drivers are hardly an issue these days on Linux.

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Sufficient applications are present, so as to get productive rightaway - a full-fea¬tured browser, e-mail client, chat client, torrent client, music and movie players, image viewing and editing, file compression, etc. Open Office has
been excluded in favour of Abiword (which finally has support for creating tables). Keyboard and mouse accessibility, system administration and user preferences, can all be managed from Fedora's equivalent of a Control Panel. Support for Indian languages and 3D desktop effects are great, but some people may not quite like the spartan look of Nautilus (the file manager). You may also find that Windows-dedicated sections of your hard disk (NTFS partitions) are not accessible out of the box, though changing this is easy. Codecs to play file-formats such as MP3 and DVD¬Video are not included, but CodecBuddy can download them when required.