Fedora Core and Fedora Extras To Merge

Kelson writes to tell us about a Fedora Weekly News article reporting that, beginning with Fedora 7, the distinction between Core and Extras will cease to exist. This development comes out of the Fedora summit held in November. From the article: "Starting with Fedora 7, there is no more Core, and no more Extras; there is only Fedora. One single repository, built in the community on open source tools, assembled into whatever spins the Fedora community desires." Kelson adds: "The post goes on to list three 'spins' they plan to introduce at Fedora 7's April release: server, desktop and KDE. Presumably these would be 1-disc installation sets, with further packages downloaded over the network, rather than the 5-CD collection needed to install Fedora 6."

Re:It would be nice

[tepples]

So if a distro doesn't support for example hardware properly, that's the now the end user's fault?

It's the end user's fault for either A. buying hardware without checking the distro's hardware compatibility list or B. switching operating systems within the lifetime of one computer.

Re:It would be nice

[syousef]

Bloody hell /. is full of intolerance today!

Re-read my comment - the part about doing the appropriate research.

IF you do the research (compatibility list, newsgroups etc.) AND it still fails it's not your fault as an end user. PERIOD. You've done all you can.

fast install

[Anonymous Coward]

You can do a small net install, I did it with FC6. There are two boot isos (just go look at their ftp server to see them, or any mirror), you need to burn the first to boot and start the install, and point at the second on the network at the install prompt when it tells you after you start, then pick and choose what you want for userland, or just hit the default. No need to even download a full disk to get going then.

I think they just do disks because that is what most folks seem to want. This new deal will still be better than making you do a full DVD or 5 CDs plus more later one, only to not use 3/4ths of what you downloaded. The net install seems the easiest and best to me, though, I'll probably use that from now on it went so smoothly. I also always put in all the kde and gnome desktop jazz though, just to have immediate redundancy in case of a major exploit or bug, it's nice to have that immediate backup right there a logoff and login away. And you know that no matter what distro you use, shift happens...

If you really need all that minute flag options and compilings, maybe just do a linux from scratch install one time and do incremental updates after that. Can't get any more custom and cutdown than that really, and you can just do critical security upgrades for a long time then, and skip everything else.

5-CD collection?

[FooAtWFU]

Hey, I just installed Fedora Core 6 last Thursday, and I'm pretty sure there were 6 of those darned CDs I had to mess around with.

Other Fedora 7 Plans

[mandreiana]

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7 [fedoraproject.org]