Fedora Core 5 Re-spins Available 55
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."
Re:No (Score:2, Interesting)
Usually these comments sound like sour grapes to me.
"Fedora Community"? (Score:4, Interesting)
This seems misleading, since both links go to some unofficial site. Not that "unofficial" is necessarily bad, but I have no idea who these dudes are.
-Peter
Re:But doesn't that mean. . . (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:No (Score:2, Interesting)
You've never had to maintain real production systems before have you? I believe that others have answered your question as to what RedHat has done for the community. You may want to ask yourself the same question.
Since you sound like a Gentoo Ricer to me, I just want to share my recent "emerge" experiences. I had the dubious honor of admining/updating a Gentoo system for a friend the other day. After hearing all the GFanbois going on and on about emerge, I was looking forward to "taking it for a spin" so to speak.
Server Specs
Dual PIII 1.4 GHz
1GB RAM
HW SCSI RAID 5 ARRAY
Not sexy in any sense, but not uncommon either in production environments. So after reading the Gentoo Emerge man and website I began my journey...
First thing I ran into after I did a emerge --sync && emerge update was blocking packages. So I had to unmerge the blocking packages. Repeat this a few times and I was ready to go. emerge world... Went to bed, expecting a fresh updated system... No, I get errors about needing USE flags set to properly install some of the packages. OK a little more research and reading I update
So almost 48 hours later I had a fresh updated Gentoo box...
My opinion is this: emerge has many of the same issues that ANY other package management system has, it solves some of the problems that RPM and DEBS have but also has many problems of its own. Plus, on older systems it takes forever to compile and update everything for a negligable speed benefit... I'll take apt-get/yum/up2date any day over emerge for real production systems.
Gentoo is probably great for desktops on boxes that have lots of glowing lights, see-through panels and Type-R stickers, but probably not so great in production...