Following the opening up of CVS access to contributors, the Fedora project has announced pre-extras, a preview release of the Fedora extras repository. The distributed “global filesystem,” or GFS, acquired by Redhat and later open sourced, has been integrated into the Fedora development tree recently as well.
Fedora Project Launches Pre-Extras, Integrates GFS
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Its just amazing that RedHat continues to do this. More power to them. I just wish that fedoralegacy would, instead of the 1-2-3 approach, do a 1-2-3-4..
Apt sources?
for what?
so the repository can be used with apt-get (for rpms) & more importantly gui interfaces like synaptic which sit on top of it, perhaps.
Does yum have a gui interface like synaptic for it?
so the repository can be used with apt-get (for rpms) & more importantly gui interfaces like synaptic which sit on top of it, perhaps.
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ask your distro
Does yum have a gui interface like synaptic for it?
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yes. its called gyum. checkout fedoranews.org
I have installed and tried gyum now. It’s nowhere near as good as synaptic. Synaptic’s best feature, for me, is having all the available packages in catagories such as games, emulators etc. It’s fast to glance over and search for things you want, even if you don’t know the package name because it can search descriptions of packages and what they do, and I love it over any other install system. On memory mandrake’s system is the only other one that comes close.
That’s why I would like this repository to support the use of apt-get and (as a result) synaptic. Maybe gyum or some other gui for yum will get there but, unless yum has something special over apt-get that I haven’t seen yet, I don’t understand why redhat doesn’t go with synaptic & apt-get instead. Is it a case of NIH (not invented here) or am I missing something ?
stopped using yum. I like apt alot more.
I also stopped using the redhat repos, and now use ged, freshrpm etc. Way better; I can play mp3s now and watch dvds
> I don’t understand why redhat doesn’t go with synaptic & apt-get instead.
Apt is missing multilib support. For example, there were some problems with instaling wrong version of glibc (i386 instead of i686). Search through Bugzilla or Fedora’s mailing lists.
I don’t use apt, but if apt can handle rawhide “devel” then that is were the rpms are and you would have to start running “rawhide” or d/l all the rpms that are needed and make your own repo for apt I guess.
Why doesn’t the Fedora Core project have support for Pocket PC devices builtin to the distro ala its PalmOS support? I know that there are projects working to bring active sync to the Linux desktop but thus far Ihave yet to see any distros with these packages included in the installerscommmon desktops. Why is it that Fedora, a testbed for Red Hat’s business desktop doesn’t have any of these groundbreaking (for Linux) features in their frontliner desktop?