F11 for x86_64

David dgboles at comcast.net
Tue Jun 9 17:13:17 UTC 2009


On 6/9/2009 1:01 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, David wrote:
> 
>> On 6/9/2009 12:13 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, James Bridge wrote:
>>>
>>>> It seems F11 has arrived, but only in 32 bit versions. Anyone cast
>>>> any light on this?
>>>   a depressing number of the mirrors *appear* to have F11 CD and DVD
>>> images, but their timestamps read june 2, so obviously they're not
>>> valid.  and there's a lot of that out there.
>> Did you not install the Fedora-11-Preview? Did you not keep it
>> updated? If you did you already *have* Fedora 11.
> 
>   yessssss ... your point being?
> 
>> If / when you update *today* you will have a current, up-to-date,
>> Fedora 11. One that is *newer* than the ISOs because the updates
>> will contain packages that did not make it into the ISOs.
>>
>> Unless you really need an ISO so you can hold in your hand a Fedora
>> 11 disk, that is alread a littl 'out of date', you *don't* need the
>> ISO.
> 
>   which will do me no good whatsoever for the *other* systems i would
> like to install f11 on, but thanks for trying to be helpful.


Of that I was not aware. Most sys-adms and many users, the ones that I
know, tend to be a little more conservative when it comes to installing
'the latest and the greatest' on release day.

Best of luck with that and have a good day.


-- 


  David




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