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Fedora Core and Fedora Extras To Merge

Posted by kdawson on from the one-hat-to-bind-them dept.

Kelson writes to tell us about a Fedora Weekly News article reporting that, beginning with Fedora 7, the distinction between Core and Extras will cease to exist. This development comes out of the Fedora summit held in November. From the article: "Starting with Fedora 7, there is no more Core, and no more Extras; there is only Fedora. One single repository, built in the community on open source tools, assembled into whatever spins the Fedora community desires." Kelson adds: "The post goes on to list three 'spins' they plan to introduce at Fedora 7's April release: server, desktop and KDE. Presumably these would be 1-disc installation sets, with further packages downloaded over the network, rather than the 5-CD collection needed to install Fedora 6."

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  1. i've seen this before by macadamia_harold · · Score: 3, Funny

    beginning with Fedora 7, the distinction between Core and Extras will cease to exist.

    I think the DOJ refers to that as "bundling".

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    1. Re:i've seen this before by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think the DOJ refers to that as "bundling".

      Been there, done that, dismissed.

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  2. Re:As long as I can still upgrade with yum.... by plover · · Score: 4, Funny

    TFA just said "1 disc" not "1 CD." If FC6 is anything to compare by, it'll need to come on one dual-layer-DVD or perhaps one BluRAY disc.

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  3. This is ominous... by Skewray · · Score: 2, Funny

    First the Extras, then the Redhat Server distributions. Then CentOs. Then SuSE. Soon Debian, Ubuntu and friends. Then Fedora will consume Mac OS, and last, with a giant belch, Vista. This is all part of their evil plan to take over the universe, and I, for one, welcome our new Fedora overlords!

  4. Re:It would be nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    switching operating systems within the lifetime of one computer.

    Why? Does the spirit of the previous OS remain on the hard drive, thus frightening the new OS so much that it crashes? Does it void the warrenty on my hard disk if I change the partition layout?