Try Ubuntu Hoary instead

Try Ubuntu Hoary instead

Posted Mar 15, 2005 21:45 UTC (Tue) by shahms (subscriber, #8877)
In reply to: Try Ubuntu Hoary instead by b7j0c
Parent article: Announcing Fedora Core 4 test1

You did contradict yourself with those two points, btw. Either you can get the 'latest and greatest' or you can't.

"not until FC5" is completely untrue. The anaconda installer won't support additional repositories until FC5, but FC4 will be shipping with at least Extras configured and ready to go by default. In addition, the pace with which new packages are being added to Extras is astounding, especially considering how recently the infrastructure was finalized.

That Red Hat "ignored fodora [sic]" is also untrue. They never ignored it, they just did a lot of things in the background until the infrastructure was in place. I'm not going to defend the early atmosphere, but Fedora was definitely not "ignored".

Competition is good. Fedora *is* a community distro in almost exactly the same sense as Ubuntu. If you're going to compare the distros, please, please get your facts in order and refain from

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