PRO:
User-friendly improvements in the GNOME 2.5.3 and KDE 3.2 desktop environments that ship with this release; themed OpenOffice.org fits in well with the other applications.
CON:
Fedora's brisk development pace will pressure users to keep updating and may make it a challenge to find the right applications to run on it.

Summary:
Fedora Core 2 is the first Linux distribution we've tested that ships with the 2.6 Linux kernel, and our evaluation indicates that the transition to 2.6 should be fairly smooth. Fedora performed stably overall, but the fact that this is a test release certainly showed in tests. Fedora Core 2 is slated for final release next month. Fedora Core 2 Test 1 is available for free download at fedora.redhat.com.