> I have been quite impressed with Fedora and with yum for updates.
> I just wish now that *someone* would release a version of fedora core that includes support for mp3 and various popular video formats so that it would make a usable desktop for most people out of the box. What's to stop someone from releasing ISOs of feature-overloaded-fedora that would include most of the stuff that the repositories are currently building to "fix" fedora?
Give these two bits of information, you may want to look at www.freshrpms.net . It has the "missing" packages to enable the stuff you want, built specifically for the current version of RH / Fedora, and it is all accessible via yum. I have been quite happy with it.
Don't suppose you could share how to do that, could you? This is the one feature I have been wanting (and requesting from winzip.com) for a couple of years, but it still isn't there, as of the 9.0 beta. It handles tar.gz files just fine, but doesn't recognize tar.bz2 at all.
There is also A-A-P, which is a new project built using Python. You create a recipe to execute all parts of the build. For example, to build Vim, you download the recipe, run aap, and it will download all the sources (from tarballs or CVS) and patches, apply the patches, run configure and make. Everything is cached locally so after the initial download, you no longer need a net connection to rebuild things.
I just noticed the same thing. The top of their web page ( www.suse.com ) said it would available on December 1 (it said that last night, and I believe it even said that earlier today). Now the site says "first week of December." I guess they had some sort of delay. I have been checking the FTP site all day watching for it. Guess I'll have to wait a while more. The funny thing is that there are already many files listed under the updates for 6.3.
Of course, there is the possibility that this could be used against the Linux community as well. They could say somehting like "No one wanted to participate in the third test because they knew NT would still come out on top. They prefer to sit back and criticize and cast doubt than to actually accept the challenge and be shown inferior."
Also, I have this sneaking suspicion (as I have seen some others mention) that the second test supported the first, to some extent at least, and that is why they want to go ahead with the third test, because they are confident they will win.
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> I have been quite impressed with Fedora and with yum for updates.
> I just wish now that *someone* would release a version of fedora core that includes support for mp3 and various popular video formats so that it would make a usable desktop for most people out of the box. What's to stop someone from releasing ISOs of feature-overloaded-fedora that would include most of the stuff that the repositories are currently building to "fix" fedora?
Give these two bits of information, you may want to look at www.freshrpms.net . It has the "missing" packages to enable the stuff you want, built specifically for the current version of RH / Fedora, and it is all accessible via yum. I have been quite happy with it.
> Winzip handles tar.bz2 just fine
Don't suppose you could share how to do that, could you? This is the one feature I have been wanting (and requesting from winzip.com) for a couple of years, but it still isn't there, as of the 9.0 beta. It handles tar.gz files just fine, but doesn't recognize tar.bz2 at all.
There is also A-A-P, which is a new project built using Python. You create a recipe to execute all parts of the build. For example, to build Vim, you download the recipe, run aap, and it will download all the sources (from tarballs or CVS) and patches, apply the patches, run configure and make. Everything is cached locally so after the initial download, you no longer need a net connection to rebuild things.
But then how could they be twins? That would be one heck of a labor!
I just noticed the same thing. The top of their web page ( www.suse.com ) said it would available on December 1 (it said that last night, and I believe it even said that earlier today). Now the site says "first week of December." I guess they had some sort of delay. I have been checking the FTP site all day watching for it. Guess I'll have to wait a while more. The funny thing is that there are already many files listed under the updates for 6.3.
> ...I strongly urge a boycott of this 'test'.
Of course, there is the possibility that this could be used against the Linux community as well. They could say somehting like "No one wanted to participate in the third test because they knew NT would still come out on top. They prefer to sit back and criticize and cast doubt than to actually accept the challenge and be shown inferior."
Also, I have this sneaking suspicion (as I have seen some others mention) that the second test supported the first, to some extent at least, and that is why they want to go ahead with the third test, because they are confident they will win.