The security is there for you to use to protect against others, it’s not Fedora imposing them on you “for your own good”, like with certain other vendors I could name. The tools are only tools, they don’t define the policy—that’s up to you.

Free Software is all about the freedom to choose what you want your systems to do, not what other people might want them to do.

You read my mind! It has been a while since I tried Red Hat Linux (IBM). The last time I installed it years ago on a P4 rig it refused to play certain media formats with a denial of service pop up box. Basically saying you are under our control. I dumped it right there and installed Mandrake/Mandriva.

It has great driver support and pretty good quality.

I'm stuck at Fedora 8 though: the adoption of KDE 4.x was a mistake - KDE 4.x is much less functional than 3.5.

Also, I wish Fedora would stay with one package management system for longer than a single release.

Just my $0.02

So many features to protect you against yourself because you, the user are stupid and should never run anything as root, especially from X.

But seriously, if you do try this, you will need to recompile your own kernel to get any use out of it.