Slightly OT: bad rap for Fedora, and realistic effects

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Feb 25 12:17:44 UTC 2007


On 24/02/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > No way.  Win XP comes with NOTHING.  You can't even open ZIP file. FC
> > includes thousands(?) of programs.  Not a fair comparison.
> >
> > Since FC5, I only download the first two discs and do a minimal
> > install.  I then yum groupinstall Gnome, KDE, etc.  Actual time I need
> > to be present is about an hour - do XP and say 100 applications and
> > tell me how long it takes you.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> There is some truth in what you say but implies that:
> 1. You have semi-fast Internet connection.
> 2. You know the group names of the things you want to install.
> 3. yum update is of less use to you. It is hard to know what things your
> would like to install that may be out there.
>
> Another strange thing that the Fedora distribution has one of the lowest
> number of packages in the core distribution and one the largest number
> of CDs in the distributed set. At least that was true a year or so ago.
> Of course,  more modern computers that read DVDs are free of CD changing
> problems during installation.

If you're lucky and careful then you can install on two disks. So
maybe a minimal spin is in order. Shall I post a wish-bug?

Dotan Cohen

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