On Saturday 18 June 2005 17:11, Ben Steeves wrote: > On 6/18/05, Gábor Iglói <mdjake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear Fedora users, > > > > My name is Gábor Iglói. > > > > I've read about the latest release of Fedora Core 4 and after > > reviewing the release notes I liked the idea of it and gave it a try. > > Welcome aboard! > > > I have prior Linux experience but I never worked with an rpm-based > > distro. > > > > Would you please recommend me some official/stable rpm repos to start > > with? And in Fedora is yum.conf the right place to pick up repos? > > Extras is the only "official" FC repo that I know of. You can also > mix-in rpm.livna.org to get things that cannot be shipped in FC, like > mp3 support and DivX codecs. > > The correct place to put a repo definition is in /etc/yum.repos.d/ -- > the exact contents of the file vary for every repo, of course, and you > can find the proper configuration file on the repo's website, usually. There should be 5 repos listed there, only 3 of which are enabled by default (the others being development which in no longer valid in the final FC4). In addition to extras there are updates and base. > > > Anyway can you recommend me some good documentation/website for > > newcomers? Maybe some getting started with Fedora guide for a > > middle-experienced Linux user? > > This is a good jumping off point: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/ You might also look at: http://www.fedoraproject.org/ and http://www.fedoraforum.org/ > -- > Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx > The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx > against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 > http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves HTH, Tom -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA Iraq war: 1,707 and counting
