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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."
who cares, BSD.. er, I mean, Redhat is Dead(c)(TM)(U.S.patent pending)
Funny, makes me wonder what the fancy desktop stuff in Fedora is all about, then...
... but it could be yours, too)
OTOH, it is possible that Linux really might not be suitable for the "but I ordered a green iMac, why are there all kinds of other colors on the front?" audience yet...
Not everybody knows how to double-click or when to use a left or a right mouse button...
(this is my personal opinion
If it's a big problem, you can always use the -fetchonly argument to emerge to cache packages on your system ahead of time. emerge -fetchonly -u world && emerge -u world isn't too bad.
The missing mirrors problem is not as bad as it used to be. They now have round robin mirrors serving various geographical areas. The real problem is where they do something stupid ( weirdo dependancies, etc ) and it then propagates out to all the mirror sites before someone nails it down.
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