Strong wrote:
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:47:13 -0500 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
If you don't want stuff newer than FC6, why not install Centos5? It
is very much like (as in almost identical) to FC6 and will be for a
very very long time.
Can we get there the same repos - the packages we have in Fedora:
audacity, mplayer, avidemux, wine, qemu, k3b, k9copy, fglrx-drivers and
so on?
You should use a repository built for RHEL5 instead of FC6, but all the
same things should be available (and maintained by people who expect to
keep doing it for years..). If you can't find something you can
generally take the fc6 src rpm and do a 'rpmbuild --rebuild' to get
recompiled binaries that will work.
Why do they say, they create their distro from the publicly available
src.rpms - who makes them?
Red Hat doesn't let anyone else use their trademarked name or artwork
but they make all the src rpms available. The Centos project follows
the requirements, replacing only what is necessary so they maintain bug
for bug compatibility and pass on matching updates in a very timely
manner. They also have some improvements in the optional centosplus
repositrory (kernel with firewire, xfs, and the other things enabled in
fedora but not RHEL, some newer apps, etc.).
The only advantage to using fedora instead of this is that you get newer
(and less tested...) apps. But, if you want to keep using the ones
that you helped test earlier, this is essentially fedora as it was at
the time the RHEL5 cut was made plus backported fixes to those
application versions. And unlike fedora you can generally count on not
having any surprises from the updates.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
