fc7 should be f7

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 20:32:57 UTC 2007


On 10/07/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 19:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >
> > >>
> > > But it is time that someone admits the mistake was calling the
> > > distribution f7 in the first place. As someone pointed out googling for
> > > f7 is a nightmare, etc.
> > >
> >
> > Distribution is officially called Fedora 7. So if there is any mistake
> > in calling it f7 that lies solely with the users.
> > dora
> > Rahul
> >
> You are ducking the question. The question is why you stuck with Fedorae
> 7 rather  than Fedora Core seven, which eliminate the confusion. The
> reason that the nature of Core had changed is sort of inadequate.
>
> Anyway, it has been done so we are just going to have to let it rest.

Because there is no "core" distribution anymore. This is not only
because Fedora Core and Fedora Extras have been merged. This is also
because the distribution model has changed to release "spins", that is
images composed from a customised selection of packages from the full
set of Fedora packages (aka the "Everything" repository).




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