The evolution of Fedora Core Linux

[Michael Hipp]

Rick Sivernell wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Question, I have listened to many talk about FC and I just read the article
> posted here on this thread. iS FCx a full distro in itself, meaning that
> all of the programs packages are there to choice from or is it a base 
> system and you add what you need to make the overall your flavour of the
> month system type? How easy is it to convert from Suse to FCx and then keep
> system updated to new releases. Has this been asked and I missed it or
> my mind giving away.

I used RH and then FC as my distro for quite a while, and I'd go right back to 
it if Ubuntu ever fell through.

It is very much a complete distro. At 4 CDs there is not much missing. You get 
to pick what flavor of system you want (choices like "Desktop", "Workstation", 
"Server", "Complete", "Minimal") at install time.

It's good stuff.

They release security updates for some months after each release comes out. 
And each release can be updated to the next using the CDs. Updating over the 
network on a running system is somewhat more problematic.

Michael