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Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!

Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!

Posted Apr 19, 2008 17:13 UTC (Sat) by michich (subscriber, #17902)
In reply to: Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff! by gravious
Parent article: Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!

Yeah, pup/pirut are very simplistic tools. They're gone in F9 anyway, replaced by PackageKit.
And have you seen yumex?

The new gdm has been heavily rewritten, and gdmsetup hasn't been completed for it yet.

I don't remember if OOo is installed by default or not, but it's certainly available.


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Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!

Posted Apr 19, 2008 22:25 UTC (Sat) by gravious (guest, #7662) [Link]

Okay :) pup/pirut were here until not so long ago! They've been took away. Oiks. I've noticed
PackageKit. It's got style and it's goals are laudable. I see this *Kit trend with Gnome -
cute.

yumex: I recognise it from one of my colleague's desktops. I'll check it out. Heh, I just did
a 'yum search yum'. Never thought about doing that before.

Whoa - crikey! 'yum install yum-fastestmirror'. Why isn't this installed by default? I wish I
had discovered this six months ago.

OOo is not installed by default. I think the reason may be political. Though that remark could
be way off the, er, mark. Both Abiword and Gnumeric are very Gnomic, no? OOo _is_ certainly
available. 'yum install openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-impress
openoffice.org-base' which would approximate to what is installed by default in Ubuntu yields
a total size download of 123MB. And it wants to install Tomcat. I am _allergic_ to Tomcat - I
had to configure it one time too many in work.

Number 9, number 9. Fedora 9 Preview has been cleared for takeoff!

Posted Apr 19, 2008 23:13 UTC (Sat) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link]

Open office is not on the live CD b/c if we included it then the livecd would not fit on a CD
any longer :)

Nothing political - just trying to get under the cd size-barrier.


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