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Fedora Core 1 Released

Posted by timothy on from the pudding-to-prove dept.

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."

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  1. A couple of links by Mr_Icon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bittorrent Link

    Alternatively:
    btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 350 --url http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/yarrow-binary-i386-i so.torrent

    A few installation screenshots

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  2. Re:Still concerns about security errata by Rik+van+Riel · · Score: 5, Informative

    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)

  3. Totally ridiculous by Outland+Traveller · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:um.. by Alan+Cox · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.