So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Sun Apr 27 22:49:32 UTC 2008
> * Related to the last, no simple caching software. The last I knew,
> there was no RPM analog to the Debian apt-cacher. This caches deb
RPM doesn't need a specialist tool for this thankfully. Squid and similar
generic caching setups can handle it quite nicely. It is true we don't
have a package that does that setup in one go (or I've not found it
anyway).
> * I prefer XFCE or similar lightweight desktops for these machines. I
> can get XFCE with xubuntu. I see no Fedora analog.
Fedora includes xfce packages, they just aren't burned on the standard
CDs but are in the yum repository.
> * While I am glad to see the Fedora live CDs, they are klunky compared
> to the Ubuntu/Knoppix/Finnix live CDs I have used. For one thing, on
> shutdown those live CDs will eject the CD and wait for you to remove
> them from the drive.
Useful feedback.. hope you get on well with Ubuntu
Alan
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