Fedora Core brevity vs server upgrades

John Summerfied debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed May 4 12:08:28 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:

>>I'm not a fan on Yum.
> 
> 
> You can find a list of mirrors organised geographically at:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
> 
> An example of how to set up your own mirrorlist:
> http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-mirrorlist/
> 
> The Fedora installer, in contrast to Debian's, asks as few questions as

Which Debian installer? I recall installing Ubuntu answering 2-3 
questions with the (almost) current Debian installer.

> it can reasonably get away with. For some people this is an advantage,
> and for others it's a disadvantage.

yum could be installed unconfigured and ask when first used. 
Kickstarters would, of course, edit the config files as they can edit so 
many others.






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