Fedora Core 3

[Net Llama!]

On 01/22/2005 11:29 AM, Collins Richey wrote:
> Yeah, I know the feeling! It's not half bad, just different enough
> that I haven't the energy to learn all the things necessary to make it
> a success. Plus, there's the not so sneaking suspicion that before
> long, as with any binary distro, FC4 will be there and it will be an
> unnecessary PITA to deal with.

FC4 is scheduled for May 16, 2005.  :)

> 
> Besides, any time I want eye candy, I can drop out of XFCE long enough
> to realize that neither KDE nor GNOME has a lot to offer for me
> (there's that word again).
> 
> The one thing that keeps me from doing more than toy with FC3 or most
> any distro other than Debian or Gentoo is the lack of packages. In
> order to duplicate the environment I'm running on Gentoo, I would need
> to descend into RPM hell searching for (potentially noxious) packages
> all over the place.

I'm proll going to regret asking, but what specifically can't you get 
easily installed on FC3 that you need/have on Gentoo?  I've yet to find 
anything that didn't just install & work as an RPM on FC3.

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