The Project released Fedora Core 1 (FC1, codename [[Yarrow]], release name [[Cambridge]]) on [[November 6]], [[2003]]. Improvements over Red Hat Linux 9 included automated updates with [[yum]], improved [[laptop]] support with [[ACPI]] and cpufreq, prelinking for faster program start time, and [[kernel]]s with the [[Native POSIX Thread Library]] (NPTL). An [[AMD64]] version appeared in [[March 2004]].
Fedora Core 2 (FC2, codename [[Tettnang]]), the current stable version, wasreached releasedrelease on [[May 18]], [[2004]]. It includes version 2.6 of the [[Linux kernel]], [[GNOME]] 2.6, [[KDE]] 3.2.1, and [[SELinux]]. This version also replaced [[XFree86]] with the [[XOrg Foundation Open Source Public Implementation of X11]]. AThis lotrelease ofoccasioned many complaints were received about this release because of its problems with installation while [[dual-boot]]ing with [[Windows XP]],but(actually thiscaused was actuallyby an issue with the 2.6 kernel's handling of partitions).
===Unstable===
The current test version of Fedora Core, isversion 3 test1., Whenprecedes the final version of 3, isscheduled completedfor release on [[October 25]], [[2004]],. itIt should include [[GNOME]] 2.8, [[GCC]] 3.4, and [[KDE]] 3.3.
