Fedora Core and Fedora Extras To Merge

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."

Comments

Re:It would be nice

[Jackass Thompson]

If Fedora didn't suck as hard, that could be a possibility. Is it really necessary to do such an insane amount of package updates (esp. kernel...) and breakage? I also just love having a Linux machine lock up regularly...

Whatever. After using it 1-5, I'm now a Debian user. w00t. No ass-ugly default icons! Stability!