New Fedora User Questions
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Aug 25 17:44:47 UTC 2004
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:03:24PM -0400, Thinker wrote:
> 1. Rumor has it that Red Hat and Fedora are going to merge back into
> one distro in the near future. Is this true, and if so, should I wait?
Which rumor has this? Fedora Core is the basis for the enterprise products
from Red Hat....
> 2. Is there a way to do an ftp install of sorts with fedora, rather
> than downloading all of the iso's and burning disks?
Yes. Download a boot image, make a CD with just that, and choose FTP
install. I do this all of the time.
> 3. What are the advantages of using Fedora over SuSE or Mandrake (in
> the opinion of someone that has used all three recently, please).
It's a nice, cutting edge distro that has a strong commitment to pure open
source, and there's a solid community of users and developers. And, if
you're used to Red Hat Linux, it's nice and familiar.
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Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
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