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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Fedora Core 6

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On our ThinkPad T41 test notebook, eye-candy effects such as window-border translucency and an OS X Exposé-like window arranger were easy to enable and didn't require a separate closed-source driver.

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We used Fedora's Kickstart tool to create a template for one of our test Xen virtual machines.

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We noticed a speed boost in Pirut, Fedora's built-in graphical software installer.

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Fedora Core 6 comes with an updated tool for installing printers, which eased setup for networked printers.

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Security-Enhanced Linux offers an estimable security boost, but it doesn't do any good if it is disabled by users who are fed up with mysterious policy conflicts. The new troubleshooter tool is great for tracing SELinux-based software conflicts.

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Fedora's software package updater, Pup, now includes a taskbar-based notifier applet.

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FC6's command line Xen management tool, Virsh, is handy for remote management of Fedora Xen installations.

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Fedora's new graphical client for managing Xen virtual machines looks impressive, but needs more work.