[H-GEN] Fedora Core 5 for PPC needed for the distro server.

[Anthony Irwin]

Anthony Irwin wrote:

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> Tony Nugent wrote:
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>> Speaking of Fedora Core 5...
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>> I have it on a DVD that came with the June issue of Linux Magazine, 
>> but I
>> haven't tried it as yet.  I'll planning to have a first look at it in 
>> a Vmware
>> box when I finally get some time.  If it looks good then I'm thinking 
>> about
>> updating two or three other boxes that I have here.
>>
>> What are other people's impressions of it?  Is it worth the trouble?
>>  
>>
> It really depends what you consider trouble I used it for a couple of 
> months on my home machine and setting it up wasn't all that hard but I 
> had to do google searches to find out about the extra yum repositories 
> and the packages I needed to install to get mp3 support and other 
> codec issues like that.
>
> I personally find the other distros like Debian and Gentoo handle that 
> better but if you have used other distros that remove such things then 
> you may not care about having to find out about how they handle you 
> getting it. 

Actually to be fair it isn't that hard to get the codecs and stuff 
installed and is still quicker then when I set up a Gentoo machine as I 
spend all weekend compiling the system but thats just how I prefer to 
use my system. I like source based distros on my desktop machine as I 
find you have access to just about everything and can compile support in 
for whatever you want.

Fedora is a general distro I use it at work quite happily but at home I 
use Gentoo on desktops and debian on my router/firewall. You really need 
to decide what you like every humbuger will tell you something different.

Kind Regards,
Anthony Irwin