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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. Re:Great... by jbellis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Presumably this is targetted at those who either don't have the old image downloaded already, or who install large numbers of machines.

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  2. Cruft, Cruft and more bloody Cruft! by billcopc · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Fedora core being the gigantic beast that it is, why isn't there a push towards network installation ? For those few that will install linux on a whole bunch of PC's the ISOs are ok, though a "Jigdo"-style custom ISO might be better, but for people like me who install once and use it for months without reinstalling, a small net-based launcher would be great as I could download only the bits I need. This is what I do for Debian and of course Gentoo and I think it's great, but for Fedora this is considered a hack and tends to break things.

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  3. Re:But doesn't that mean. . . by Kelson · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not an incremental release. It's Fedora Core 5 plus all updates as of the time the ISOs were created.

    In theory, if you were to take two systems, install one from the stock FC5 disc and the other from the respin disc, then run the updater on each, both systems would be identical except for your config choices.

    The difference is that one system only has to download updates released since the end of May, while the other had to download updates since March. Both of them end up being Fedora Core 5.

    (As far as naming is concerned, it's not an official Fedora release, so Fedora Core 5.1 wouldn't make sense. http://fedoraunity.org/re-spins/faq )

  4. this is a welcome move! Take it further! by zogger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Current modern distros are just too whopper big to deal with on dialup. If you miss the first week or so before you get the snail mail disks, you are stuck every day downloading and patching some huge amount, this way you can can at least wait a bit, let the first month of patches go out (always large once a LOT more people are running the release and finding the gotchas and figuring out the work arounds, THEN get your disks and start patching/updating. Just when you finally get your personal "stable" release all fully patched and tweaked and customized, WHAM, the next "new" one comes out.

    So, what would be even *better* is end of release cycle fully updated and patched ISOs! I would love those! Once it drops into "extreme critical patches only" territory, until that runs out, (fedora legacy in this case) you can just get the now truly stable release and run it and have just a minimum amount of patching/downloading/updating. My workarond for this so far has been to just skip every other release, purely from the huge amount of downloading I can avoid.