Alpha Source Code?

[Mike A. Harris]

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Stephen Lewis wrote:

>> There is no downloadable ISO images or installable Fedora Core OS
>> for ia64, however as mentioned previously a few times in this 
>> thread, we build all rpms on all 7 architectures always, and the 
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>Mike, I admire your patience! (you mean I can't get Fedora for XXX? :-)

Fedora Core for pr0n? ;o)

>> 	Itanicore
>> 	Insanium Core
>> 
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>Very good! It is a pity that the natural tendency is to drop the "Fedora"
>part and keep the "Core". Hence "AlphaCore" and above. Idealy it should
>be more like "Fedora Core Alpha/Fedora Core Power" etc. Personally I run 

Actually, it makes more sense this way.  It distinguishes clearly
between an official Red Hat Fedora Core release, and an
unofficial community based release, which I believe then allows
the community volunteers to be more visible and get more credit
who did the final work of rebuilding the rpms and finishing up
the kernel, installer, and other bits.  The 'Core' part hints 
that it is an unofficial Fedora Core port then too.  ;)

If someone did Fedora Core 4/PPC unofficially and called it that, 
and then we turned around and released an official Fedora Core 
4/PPC, it would be rather confusing to everyone.  ;o)


>    "Apple Core"

I think Apple(TM) would probably blow a nut for that. ;)

>but for the IA64 may I add my suggection of,
>    "Core Blimey"
>(for non-English speakers it is British slang)

I'm partial to 'insanium' myself, but biased too, as that's the 
name I gave to my IA64 workstation.  ;o)




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