FC5 Boot Issue?

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 20 03:43:40 UTC 2006


From: "Michael A. Peters" <mpeters at mac.com>

> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 07:48 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>> 
>> It seems fairly clear the ISOs have leaked, that they are genuine.
> 
> Happens every release - and it will continue to.
> The isos have to get distributed to mirrors before the official release
> time.
> 
> It's not like it is a crime or license violation.
> 
> I don't mind early discussion of leaked ISO's - but I think they should
> go on the test list, where people using recent rawhide versions of both
> the installer and the packages are more likely to see it.

I note that Jim did NOT say the signatures were verified to be official
signatures and not some random party's hack.

The official site is still blocked.

There is no reason to "ass-u-me" that Jim has a legitimate package
given the information he provided. So he may be in the "poor bastard"
camp at the moment with a hacked copy. We've no way of knowing given
his provided information.

{^_^}




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