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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."
Bittorrent Link
Alternatively:i so.torrent
btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 350 --url http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/yarrow-binary-i386-
A few installation screenshots
If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
The .torrent links are avaliable here:
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/
SuDZ
You won't be able to buy the boxed set, but you should be able to buy it (eventually) from the usual places.
One of the reasons for the name change from "Red Hat Linux" to Fedora is that everybody can sell CDs with the distribution now.
No need to rename it to "pink tie linux" or "green sock linux" any more, every cheap CD shop selling CDs with Fedora can call it by its real name.
One of the nice things about Fedora being an open source project is that participation by others (eg. the Fedora Legacy people) is encouraged.
If a lot of people want backported security fixes, there's nobody stopping them from doing the work and putting up an apt or yum repository with those packages.
(one nice feature of Fedora is that up2date now talks apt and yum, so you can get your packages from anywhere you want, not just Red Hat)
there is a boot.iso image that is very very small.
Its actually sort of a waste actually to burn such a small iso to cd...unless you have a business card cd.
Anyways burn the tiny iso to a cd...then do a net install. No fuss, no muss.
And there is certaintly room for community effort...ie YOU...to help rework some of the installer software groupings so you could have a very minimal working install using just one cd and no network. In fact i think people are sort of working on that very issue, though they wandered off the mailinglist with what they were doing.
-jef"put the 'get off your arse and help out' back in community"spaleta
Look at the facts:
Support for Redhat 9 is good through April 2004.
You can download Fedora for free. Fedora has been specifically packaged to make 3rd party distribution easy, and looks like it's going to include all of the functionality of old redhat+up2date for free.
The new enterprise products have guaranteed 5-year support cycles. THIS IS HUGE. The low end, desktop-oriented enterprise workstation offering is 179$, including 1yr up2date support.
All of Redhat's software is still GPL.
I don't see what the anti-redhat has against one of their best neighbors and diplomats to the outside world.
People may still be doing it but it violates Red Hat's trademark and they have acted against people in the past for doing exactly that.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Don't click on this. It is one of those gross site links.
Red Hat have always had a bit of a reputation for lousing up the release process of a distribution when it comes to getting mirrors ready before the release.
Fedora has taken this to new and astounding heights. I got the notification that Fedora was ready to mirror 31 minutes before the supposed official release time. The download.fedora.redhat.com name wasn't in the DNS. The permissions on the repository prvented us rsyncing, and there were no pre-release torrents in place.
So at release time there were no mirrors and no torrents available. Worse, the mirror list their download page points to are the old Red Hat mirrors which use a different directory heirarchy to the new Fedora tree, so those links are both wrong and to machines that don't have the damn software.
Its now 4.5 hours after release time. I have had a torrent client set running for most of that time (as soon as I got a torrent URL), and the torrents have not completed. The immediate throwing open of the release to the general public means I can't get rsync access to the main site. So my mirror, and I guess many other are not anywhere near synced.
Frankly I'm pissed off and will probably not bother to mirror in future.
where can I buy a boxed set of it? I prefer the convenience of pressed CDs.
From the Fedora FAQ
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux /core/1/i386/os/images/boot.iso
Banu
When ever I need something....if I know the name of the program, just do emerge and it grabs the code, takes care of all the dependencies, grabs any other progs it needs...voila, in minutes, I have the program compiled for my system, and with the flags I want for it. No clutter with 5 different verisons of a functionality unless I want it.
Updates are a breeze too. emerge -u bang.....its done, or just emerge -u world, go to sleep, and you have the lastest and greatest of everything you run on your system. Give it a try.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
If you want a have a windows 2003 Server, thats 1 CD, an exchange server 1CD, office 2003 3 CD's, visual studio.NET 5 CD's, SQL Server at least 1CD etc, etc, etc.. I love how anyone that compares windows to linux (bug reports, install size, etc) seems to forget that there is a hell of alot of software on distribution CD's. It includes everything, not just the base OS that windows includes. I wonder how many bugs windows has in bugtraq if you add windows, exchange, office (including outlook) iis, sql server, etc.
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
Yep, it does. Installed flawless onto my SATA machine, where RH 9 would not.
Believe me "do we just join Debian" was a seriously asked question in planning Fedora. But Fedora is about somewhat slightly different things like regular and rapid releases and so the idea of merging into Debian didnt look like it would work out.
Apt-get works with Redhat too.
http://freshrpms.net
The more you know, the less you understand.
If you all want so bad that Linux ever beats windows, then quit whining or complaining...what RH does is good. It's about time some major distro takes the big step.
i.e.: If you ever want software companies to write stable software for your pc, you need standardisation. Not libs that change every five seconds. (Ok, maybe not when doing good reverse compatibility of the libs or static linking).
Linux will always stay the geeky OS until someone sets a standard. Don't want a standard? Fine..go use debian or gentoo. They're all good at reinventing the wheel.
Want to compete with a real Desktop OS? Then beat it at where it is best, it's stability (seriously, everybody keeps whining how unstable windows is...linux is stable textbased yeah..but the X-apps have their issues.), secondly: ease of use and very important its popularity by the software and hardware companies.
Go Redhat.
PS: buying a car costs money, food costs money, a descent OS may cost money. There are programmers that like to live of doing what they're good at and love to do.
Actually, they mirror files, but if it fails to find it on their server, it'll fail over to any other servers noted in the .ebuild (ie: the original distribution). But hey, if that doesn't work you can find the file and put it into /usr/portage/distfiles yourself, or modify the ebuild to point to the right place.
:)
This is harder if you need files to install your network, but then you use the pre-compiled files, or install the files from floppy or CD.
If you want to download and use local copies of the install files, I'm sure that's possible as well, though not the "normal" way to do it. Maybe you should post to the gentoo user forum or user list and see if anyone has any suggestions.
Course, that assumes you haven't completely given up on it
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
Significantly, you couldnt sell CDs with 'Red Hat Linux' on them and call it 'Red Hat Linux'.... The product included support, and RH was getting lots of calls from people who had bought 'Red Hat Linux' out of the back of a van (or whatever :P)
With 'Fedora', OTOH, anyone can burn off CDs and call it 'Fedora'.. Well, more people can, there are still some restrictions Im sure.
This is a full blown stable 1.0 release, it appears... not even a 9.1 release.
This is really for the install, as the install process is contained in a ramdisk. You could run the OS with 8-16 MB of RAM after its installed, although I don't know why you would want to (particularly if you had 64 MB at your disposal for the install).
Fully licensed blockchain psychiatrist
on rpm.livna.org, it's maintainted by the good old fedora.us team.