Try Ubuntu Hoary instead [LWN.net]

Try Ubuntu Hoary instead

Posted Mar 15, 2005 21:35 UTC (Tue) by shahms (subscriber, #8877)
In reply to: Try Ubuntu Hoary instead by b7j0c
Parent article: Announcing Fedora Core 4 test1

Try just burning the 'boost.iso' image for Fedora. Whamo! Network install. Oooh. And it works better than the Hoary netboot install. As in, unlike the latest beta, it actually works.

*And*, while "live updates" are not recommended, they do work. Of course, because it isn't supported you have to do some pieces manually (like fetching the newest fedora-release package), but it is doable.

Bah! Never add 'dag'. There are so many other viable repositories for Fedora that don't replace core packages that dag should be a last resort.

Extras, Freshrpms and Livna are mostly all you need. Admittedly, none of these are set up out of the box on FC3 (but Extras should be for FC4). Additionally, of the major distros, Fedora packages are usually the most up-to-date. Unless you bring in Debian 'unstable'. But then you have to include 'rawhide' and Fedora wins again. Yes, Hoary has (will have) GNOME 2.10, but so will FC4 ;-P

(And your 3rd and final points are directly contradictory, btw)

I'm not trying to bash Ubuntu here as I'm sure I would love it if I could get the freakin' installer to work, but many of your points are just not valid.

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Try Ubuntu Hoary instead

Posted Mar 16, 2005 3:02 UTC (Wed) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559) [Link]

>> Extras, Freshrpms and Livna are mostly all you need.

my understanding was that the entire livna repo was marked as broken.

looking at the number of packages installed, dag is by far the most complete third party repo. although i am not a fedora user anymore, when i was, dag was the only third-party repo i used (freshrpms is installed by default).

Try Ubuntu Hoary instead

Posted Mar 16, 2005 22:57 UTC (Wed) by shahms (subscriber, #8877) [Link]

Then your understanding is wrong. Freshrpms is not installed by default, unless you're referring to the sources.list file shipped by Dag, I wouldn't know. If dag was the only third-party repo you used, I'm not surprised you had so many problems with Fedora. Dag does a good job packaging things, but he's also a little . . . overzealous, and that inevitably leads to breakage.