[Gllug] Fedora

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Jason Lambert wrote:

> Hiya,
> 
> Is anyone currently using Fedora?
> 
> Im interested in peoples opinions on it, so if you
> could provide :)
> 
I'm using Fedora, and like it a lot.B

There is a very active mailing list!

If you are already using RH 9 and have a high bandwidth connection, you
can upgrade 'in situ'.

The software upgrade mechanism has changed, now the preferred route is to 
use Yum, which I think is a good thing.
With Yum, us Redhat types now have a similar model to Debian.
There is a base software repository, an updates area and a testing area.
You choose to, for example, allow updates of the testing software.
For thinks like media players etc. or extra software you add further 
repositories to the yum.conf or RHN configuration file,
eg. freshrpms or livna


The default desktop stays with the Bluecurve theme.
Openoffice has been upgraded to 1.1 version.

Happy to answer questions on specific versions of other packages.




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