No more "Fedora Core" but Fedora

[praka123]

Red Hat's engineer and Fedora Project board member, Bill Nottingham, announced on the Fedora developer's list on Jan. 4 that, "There will be no more releases of Fedora Core or Fedora Extras." Instead, Core and Extras will be merged together.

"Starting with Fedora 7, there is no more Core, and no more Extras; there is only Fedora. One single repository, built in the community on open source tools, assembled into whatever spins the Fedora community desires," wrote (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-January/msg00091.html) Nottingham.
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9625273807.html

[gary4gar]

does that really make a diffrence

[mediator]

Thanx for that news man!

[Pathik]

how does it matter?? Neways thx 4 the news

[mediator]

The difference is that only One single repository will be there , built in the community on open source tools, assembled into whatever spins the Fedora community desires

[dabster]

users, will need only 1 CD to install the Distro and based on their requirements they would be able to install whatever applications they want from the Repository using an online connection.

[subratabera]

They are also revising their RPM style package management system to make it faster and more easy...

[praka123]

why re-inventing the wheel with rpm revise?I think all Linux Distros incuding Fedora and RedHat should move to the Debian (http://debian.org) Way-Use dpkg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg) and apt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool).the reason is simple-debian way(dpkg+apt with wajig (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wajig)) manges packages better than rpm or most other package management tools used by other distros.this will solve the package compatibliltiy problems and total result will be a better Scenario for Linux Users.I left Fedora and rpm distros for the simple reason of their using pkg manager- rpm:cool:
moving from rpm to apt using wajig (http://xtronics.com/reference/rpm2apt-dpkg.htm)

[subratabera]

There is also a project going on named LSB (Linux Standard Base) project, which has a plan for how to make it easier for both users and developers to install new softwares in Linux...

Last month, key people in the Linux software packaging world and ISVs (independent software vendors) got together in Berlin, Germany to discuss the future of Linux application packaging. The group decided to create a bridge between the various software package installment programs that the Linux distributions support and what the ISVs need to support Linux.

According to Ian Murdock, CTO of the FSG and chair of the LSB, what ISVs want is "to treat Linux as a single platform, which means they want to offer a single package for Linux, much as they do for Windows."
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