Fedora Core 1 Released

EvilAlien writes "The Fedora Project has released Fedora Core 1, aka Yarrow. The release was expected on November 3rd, but was briefly delayed. The release notes has quite a bit of good detail, and is worth checking out for any preliminary questions you may have. Download options include BitTorrent in addition to the traditional collection of FTP mirrors."

Is this the one . . .

[Anonymous Coward]

. . . that people should be using Windows instead of? Maybe Red Hat can clarify that for us.

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Slashdot editors are the best.

[VAXGeek]

Usually, I'd just expect some vague headline, like "Fedora Core released", but our editors have gone ABOVE AND BEYOND the call of duty and attached a brief synopsis of what Fedora is and why this is an important news item. I'm glad they didn't just say "Fedora released" and call it that.

crappy desktop

[madHomer]

I hear the desktop is pretty bad [slashdot.org]. I'll just stick with windows :)

I'm more of a consistent contributor to ...

[burgburgburg]

the Busby, Porkpie, Toque and Bowler Projects.

I feel they give better all-around coverage, and match my moods better.

Theme Song

[use_compress]

We're tired, we're droopy
We're all a little loopy
A Fedora Core Test Release
Is invading your PC!

New features - interesting!
The code could use some testing
That's why we are requesting
new bug reports quickly!

On our ftp site is the place where you will see
The stuff that we've been working on since 1993!
We're tired, we're droopy
We're all a little loopy
It's a Fedora Core Test Release
Come and join the fun!

-- http://lwn.net/Articles/50994/

Re:Now the question is...

[Anonymous Coward]

> where can I buy a boxed set of it?

Simple. To purchase a boxed copy, simply mail your $699 to:

The SCO Group
355 South 520 West, Suite 100
Lindon, Utah 84042
USA.

can't install linux on a VIDEO CAMERA

[positive]

this is a funny story. I have a new asus motherboard with firewire built in. I was running windows (just to test the hardware, mind you..) and then finally got around to trying to install linux on a separate hard disk.

linux (redhat 6.x and latest gentoo) and even freebsd refused to install! huh? never saw THAT happen before.

well, turns out that I had my firewire camera (not a real camera but a canopus firwire media bridge that looks like a FW camera) connected and all I can think of is that the funny asus bios considered THAT a 'disk' and when linux and bsd scanned the 'installable devices' via a probe, it found the camera device but wasn't smart enough to know it wasn't a disk/storage device. so the install hung hard.

removing the firewire cable allowed the installs to continue (all of them).

the very thought of linux or bsd trying to install itself on a VIDEO CAMERA just makes me laugh. imagine the design issues of that - when the system boots up, does it display titles on the video camera eyepiece? if it fscks, does it have to rewind the tape often? does it have the 1024 cylinder limit if you boot from mini-DV? ;)

just kinda funny, I guess. the new motherboard bios' are trying to abstract the media type and say 'disks are disks, no matter if ide or scsi or firewire'. ha!

Re:crappy desktop

[Anonymous Coward]

Congratulations, you've got the technical aptitude of Matthew Szulik's 90-year-old father!

My 90 year old father runs BSD........from the GRAVE!

Inadequate version number.

[ChangeOnInstall]

You don't honestly expect me to "upgrade" from Linux 9.0 to Linux 1.0 do you? At this rate we'll never catch Windows 2000.

Re:Obligatory Gentoo...

[mungtor]

Gentoo is great if you have a week to wait for your system to compile. Hell, by the time an "emerge gnome" is done they've gotten to the next release. :)

Re:Obligatory Gentoo...

[Anonymous Coward]

Official Gentoo-Linux-Zealot translator-o-matic
By M, version 1.0

Gentoo Linux is an interesting new distribution with some great features. Unfortunately, it has attracted a large number of clueless wannabes and leprotards who absolutely MUST advocate Gentoo at every opportunity. Let's look at the language of these zealots, and find out what it really means...

"Gentoo makes me so much more productive."
"Although I can't use the box at the moment because it's compiling something, as it will be for the next five days, it gives me more time to check out the latest USE flags and potentially unstable optimisation settings."

"Gentoo is more in the spirit of open source!"
"Apart from Hello World in Pascal at school, I've never written a single program in my life or contributed to an open source project, yet staring at endless streams of GCC output whizzing by somehow helps me contribute to international freedom."

"I use Gentoo because it's more like the BSDs."
"Last month I tried to install FreeBSD on a well-supported machine, but the text-based installer scared me off. I've never used a BSD, but the guys on Slashdot say that it's l33t though, so surely I must be for using Gentoo."

"Heh, my system is soooo much faster after installing Gentoo."
"I've spent hours recompiling Fetchmail, X-Chat, gEdit and thousands of other programs which spend 99% of their time waiting for user input. Even though only the kernel and glibc make a significant difference with optimisations, and RPMs and .debs can be rebuilt with a handful of commands (AND Red Hat supplies i686 kernel and glibc packages), my box MUST be faster. It's nothing to do with the fact that I've disabled all startup services and I'm running BlackBox instead of GNOME or KDE."

"...my Gentoo Linux workstation..."
"...my overclocked AMD eMachines box from PC World, and apart from the third-grade made-to-break components and dodgy fan..."

"You Red Hat guys must get sick of dependency hell..."
"I'm too stupid to understand that circular dependencies can be resolved by specifying BOTH .rpms together on the command line, and that problems hardly ever occur if one uses proper Red Hat packages instead of mixing SuSE, Mandrake and Joe's Linux packages together (which the system wasn't designed for)."

"All the other distros are soooo out of date."
"Constantly upgrading to the latest bleeding-edge untested software makes me more productive. Never mind the extensive testing and patching that Debian and Red Hat perform on their packages; I've just emerged the latest GNOME beta snapshot and compiled with -O9 -fomit-instructions, and it only crashes once every few hours."

"Let's face it, Gentoo is the future."
"OK, so no serious business is going to even consider Gentoo in the near future, and even with proper support and QA in place, it'll still eat up far far too much of a company's valuable time. But this guy I met on #animepr0n is now using it, so it must be growing!"

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Re:Worst release process ever...

[ElderKorean]

Wonder how many people have done like me.

Gets notification that RedHat 9 is the last of the series.

Sees that Fedora is essentially the replacement for the average geek.

Has a bit of a read about Fedora.

Downloads the current Fedore Core release 0.95

Burns this to a three CD set.

Just about to setup systems and have a play.
Checks Slashdot for daily fix.

Fedore Core 1 is out.

Bastards.... ...more coasters.

Is there a site somewhere that has some basic information about ALL the various releases that are around. And when the next major updates are expected?

Re:Is this the one . . .

[yomegaman]

Microsoft has been advertising on Slashdot for many months at least. I guess it shows you how effective banner ads are if you're just now noticing it. :-)

The real reason behind rh / fedora...

[fo0bar]

RHL was at version 9, and now they're switching to Fedora Linux 1.0. There's only one logical reason for this. Apple has patented the use of "10" (or "X") in versions. Think about it... how many software projects have gotten to version 10 without chaning their version number system (to "2006", "GP", "Supa-Dupa")? Very few, and those that chose to use version 10 are licensing the technology from Apple.

I know this is true. I heard it from a guy on the internet.

Re:Is this the one . . .

[Anonymous Coward]

We apologize again for the fault in the comments. Those responsible for sacking the slashbots who have just been sacked, have been sacked.