Fedora Core 3!

[John Seth]

Fedora Core uses "yum" rather than up2date.  I haven't tried it yet, as
I've been waiting for the official release. Currently I use
Slackware-current and Fedora Core 1 for some server stuff, and use Fedora
Core 2 for my dual boot home system.

Usually you can also use FTP to get the src.rpm files from their distro
site.  I believe UB mirrors it at ftp.cse.buffalo.edu

-- Tony


Jesse Jarzynka said:
> Anyone else installed Core 3 yet? Some things/problems I've notice out
> of the box:
>
> - Gnome is now officially Gnome. Looks like Gnome, with 2 taskbars, not
> the usual 1 toolbar with a start menu/foot anymore.
>
> - The kernel sources do not come installed. When I fire up Firefox for
> the first time I get release notes:
>
> In order to eliminate the redundancy inherent in providing a separate
> package for the kernel source code when that source code already exists
> in the kernel's .src.rpm file, Fedora Core 3 no longer includes the
> kernel-source package. Users that require access to the kernel sources
> can find them in the kernel .src.rpm file. To create an exploded source
> tree from this file, perform the following steps (note that <version>
> refers to the version specification for your currently-running kernel):
>
>      1. Obtain the kernel-<version>.src.rpm file from one of the
>         following sources:
>
>
>               * The SRPMS directory on the appropriate "SRPMS" CD iso
>                 image
>
>               * The FTP site where you got the kernel package
>
>               * By running the following command:
>
>                 up2date --get-source kernel
>
> - However, up2date doesn't work for whatever reason, probably all the
> mirrors are flooded, and I can't find the kernel source rpm anywhere.
> The purpose of this is because I want to install the NVIDIA driver and
> it won't without the kernel sources.
>
> - Picked all my hardware up right away. Sound works great. No more dual
> ALSA/OSS in the volume control.
>
> 	So, anybody else having these issues, or find a fix yet? I wish to hell
> they would include apt-get, life would be so easy, and alas the
> atrpms.net site is also down! Hopefully these should iron out over the
> next few weeks, -Jesse
>
>