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Fedora Core 5 Re-spins Available

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slight-return dept.

Lxy writes "The Fedora Community released re-spins of Fedora Core 5 last Thursday. What's a respin you ask? To put it simply, all the latest updates have been patched into the install CDs, eliminating the need for a long download process after installing. You can read the press release here and of course nab the torrents here."

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  1. Great... by dhasenan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now, instead of downloading up-to-the-minute patches after I install, I can download up-to-the-week ISOs before I install! That means rather than an additional 50-100MB, I get to download an entire 4GB DVD image.

    Hold on a minute....

    1. Re:Great... by moro_666 · · Score: 2, Funny

      This is the most "unfunny" news of the day. i think redhat hates communities and online lists. they also hate the fact that things should be kept simple.

        Imagine now the fun on support lists and forums :

      H4x0R_A: I just installed FC5 and nothing works
      Package_Owner: what the hell are you talking about, fc5 had a working version ...
      H4x0R_A: It doesn't work, i made a fresh install
      Package_Owner: are you _sure_ that you haven't made any upgrades ?
      H4xOR_A: Yes
      Package_Owner: Read From The Label CD That You Installed
      H4xOR_A: FC5 Respin something
      Package_Owner takes out the gun, fires the shot.
      - Yes it worked in FC5, no it doesn't work in FC5 Respin. Or vice versa. Either way, we have 2 different fc5-s out there.

        And this will be everywhere, since the newbs will not be aware of respin or not respin, and we'll have a nice bunch of confusion all over the place :D Sure for experts and even medium level linux users the picture will be quite clears. But they're not the majority that's writing in the lists. The majority is the people who have no idea that the Respin flag may make a huge difference.
        And ofcourse they will try to add `update hacks` of the original fc5 to their system and mock up stuff that didn't neet updating or repairing in the first place (a lot of people just follow wiki's, they don't even realize what they are doing).

        I'll continue with playing around with happily my dapper, i hope with fc6 redhat realizes that fc6.1 would be better than "respin".

        Now you can troll or flamebait or whatever my post if you want to, but even the evil moderators know that deep down, i'm right on this one and that FC team made a mistake (well yes, shit happens, why not today ...)

      --

      I'd tell you the chances of this story being a dupe, but you wouldn't like it.
  2. Prepare Yourselves! by Eighen+Indemnis · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's Fedora Core! The *wikkiwikkiwikki* REMIX!
    *cue Puff Daddy dancing around like his pants are falling off*

  3. Other download sites by Yeechang+Lee · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here's some more places you can get Fedora with security updates conveniently added on:

    * Click here
    * or here
    * or here
    * and finally, here (Plenty of servers, so best performance!).

    HTH!

  4. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "1 the RPM Format (hint its called in full RedHat Package Manager)" I don't think they did anyone any favors there.