Fedora Core 3 - upgrade notes

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Sat Nov 13 00:55:58 UTC 2004


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Aly Dharshi wrote:
> 
> 
>>You have to remember that Fedora Core is considered bleeding edge ! So
>>newbies should use at their own risk. :)
> 
> 
> That's a silly remark, IMHO.
> FC-3 is meant to work, isn't it?
> If it doesn't work on some machine that's a bug,
> not a matter of being "bleeding edge".
> 
> 
>>>- The description of the httpd package doesn't mention Apache
> 
> 
> I've wondered about this.
> (I think it predates FC-3, though.)
> Why has Apache suddenly become a forbidden word?
> Is it a licensing issue?

IIRC it was changed to allow you to run *any* http deamon without 
worrying about the dependancies.  A similar change helped to alliviate 
the change from XFree86 to Xorg....


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