[luau] fedora q's

[Vince Hoang]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:55:10AM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote:
> >>In response to a problem I was having with version issues
> >>between RH 7.3 and RH 9 ( that RH 9 has some functionality
> >>"dumbed down" to remove liability for distributing software
> >>that uses things like mpeg, etc ), Warren mentioned that the
> >>full user versions could be downloaded and installed using
> >>fedora and a 3rd party server. What 3rd party servers are
> >>availble?
> >
> >These are easily found with Google. Please do not ask me to
> >point the way.
>
> Well, not so easy for me. I'd already tried google, but the
> results were too ambiguous. I'm probably phrasing the question
> to google wrong, but I'm new to this apt/yum thing, so it's
> difficult to work past that.

http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO
http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraMirrorList

> >Yes, the old Fedora at fedora.us currently has all RH updates
> >as well as updates for its own packages whenever they are
> >released. The fedora.us project will continue operating for
> >several more months while the new fedora.redhat.com project is
> >forming.

I guess by then we will know whether it is Red Hat that consumed
Fedora or the other way around. :)

I do like that RH is moving in a direction similiar to Debian's
efforts. My nit is the market speak on RH's fedora site that
asked more questions that answered.

-Vince