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Like any brave distro-freak out there, pushed by a momentary feeling of delusion of the community management by openSUSE project, which sometimes seems to be discussing over itself and to which i am not able [at the moment ?] to contribute like I’d like to, i’ve downloaded and installed the new release (the 5th) of Red Hat financed project Fedora, codename BORDEAUX.

Seems like yesterday when on my italian blog i wrote about the birth of the project, and instead over two and half a year have passed. The Linux distribution universe has grown more frenetic (?) and for sure the coming of Ubuntu has shaken many foundaments to the good-old ones. More and more we are now approaching to an era of specialized distro, “old” reliable server oriented or more cutting edge desktop software collection …. ouch !

In these first hours my Fedora 5, breathing on my 2001 old pc, seems to be one of the few examples of something in between, a distro for all tastes, if you’re good enough managing it. For sure, all the community around Fedora seems to have gone by the “rock steady ” approach of the Prominent North American Linux Distributor ( ) and the various initiatives, forums, communities and the new wiki seem to be all driving to the same goal of a cohese community, Ubuntu-style, i can add …

One of the strong point remains yum, a tool on it’s way to definitve maturity when used via shell, even if on the user interaction via a GUI still a lot of work has to be done. The direct inclusion of the Yum Extender project in the extras repository it’s a good sing for me about the will to develop seriously the tool. In the meantine if you’re interested in it you can read the dedicated yumex blog.

In the meantime that someone clarifies a little more on the ongoing battle Livna vs RPMforge as the main external software repository for Fedora, i suggest reading this page on using YumEx in CentOS 4 which at the moment rappresents the state of the art of the YumEx documentation.

On other things now.

PUP the new package updater (replacing up2date) seem to work charmly, it works and now i am searchig an eventual applet to have in background working for me.

PIRUT, the new tool for managing graphically the packages which replaces the old system-config-packages, now works using yum repos list. Unfortunately i witness some delay during it’s use, like little freezes on the input window, and then it finally starts. I think that it is somewhat a consequence of the huge server overload by people downloading the new iso. We are lucky enough to have a tool born to take advantage of the exitence of mirror which resolves the situation in few minutes … thinking to have to manage a situation like that on a SUSE (yast) repository make me whine like a schoolgirl …

That’s all for now, more to come !

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