Re: different betwen FC4_1386- SRPMS-disc1.iso & FC4-i36-disc1.iso

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• Subject: Re: different betwen FC4_1386- SRPMS-disc1.iso & FC4-i36-disc1.iso
• From: Peter Gordon <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:37:43 -0800
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On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 14:32 +1000, Michael Wright wrote:
> whats the different between FC4_1386- SRPMS-disc1.iso an
> FC4-i36-disc1.iso can anybdy help may have downloaded the wrong one. 

FC4-i386 is the precompiled binaries and installer. The SRPMS disc has
all the source code for those binaries. Unless you hack on or develop
software, you most likely should use the binary i386 disc set
(or x86_64 if you're on a 64-bit machine such as an EM64T or AMD64).

Hope that helps.
--Peter

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