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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. Re:It would be nice by tepples · · Score: 3, Informative

    So if a distro doesn't support for example hardware properly, that's the now the end user's fault?

    It's the end user's fault for either A. buying hardware without checking the distro's hardware compatibility list or B. switching operating systems within the lifetime of one computer.

  2. Re:It would be nice by syousef · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bloody hell /. is full of intolerance today!

    Re-read my comment - the part about doing the appropriate research.

    IF you do the research (compatibility list, newsgroups etc.) AND it still fails it's not your fault as an end user. PERIOD. You've done all you can.

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  3. 5-CD collection? by FooAtWFU · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hey, I just installed Fedora Core 6 last Thursday, and I'm pretty sure there were 6 of those darned CDs I had to mess around with.

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  4. Other Fedora 7 Plans by mandreiana · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7