Fedora Core 6 No More

Paul Johnson pauljohn32 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 23 03:21:01 UTC 2007


On 12/21/07, Michael Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday, December 21, 2007, at 08:45AM, "Paul Johnson" <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I've been in this same situation and lately I've grown tired of
> >constantly updating Fedora systems that, at least on the surface, seem
> >to work fine.  Especially on servers, where users are using very few
> >GUI programs, the update has no functional benefit.
> >
> >At the current time, I'm testing the longer-lived linux distributions
> >on 2 machines.  Since I like the RPM system, I stayed in that family.
> >I've installed CentOS5 and Scientific Linux 5. Both are offshoots of
> >RedHat Enterprise Linux.
> >
> >On a user workstation, I do not think I would recommend this strategy
> >because those distributions lag quite horribly in the introduction of
> >the "creature features" of the desktop. No Gnumeric, no inkscape, old
> >R, old firefox, old thunderbird, and on and on.  I started trying to
> >keep track of the applications that I needed to build and or update
> >for an SL5 system and it has been pretty time consuming.
>
> I actually have gnumeric/abiword and lots of other goodies built for CentOS -
>
> http://www.pennywasted.info/centos/yjl.php

Goddamnit.  I have been repeating your work

http://pj.freefaculty.oorg/ScientificLinux/5

Can you please share your mock confiig file to me?  I can't fiind any
docs on howto do that.

>
> That repo is primarily Fedora 8 packages rebuilt in mock for CentOS 5
>



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Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
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University of Kansas




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