On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 14:51, Collins wrote: > 1. Is there a service anywhere (free or subscription) that makes > available a broad variety of RPM packages beyond the core offerings > tailored for Red Hat / fedora? I'm familiar with rpfmfind.net, but it's > a super pain in the butt to scan for everything you need and resolve > dependancies. There is still fedora.us and freshrpms.net for now... and if you scan the Fedora archives you'll see people have discussed many options already and made suggestions. Legacy Fedora for one... > 2. What processor type was used for the fedora core 1 distribution, i.e. > i386, i586, i686, or ??? ? If one of the lower performing types was > used, is there a way to upgrade everything to a more modern processor, > i.e. at least i686? Most everything is compiled with arch. for i386 with optimizations for i686/Athlon/etc. So what's happening is that it's not using anything a i386 ~doesn't~ have but includes optimizations to be used if the hardware supports it. It's not super-custom-always-on-tweaked-to-the-limit but it's also fine for most everything and perhaps more stable overall. Cheers, -Ali -- OpenPGP Key: 030E44E6 -- Was I helpful?: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=packetknife -- The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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