On 8/3/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, August 3, 2007 2:38 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > On 8/3/07, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> So I booted the Fedora 7 Live CD, and tried to find out what software
> >> packages were installed.
> >>
> > There may be light at the end of the tunnel. The corresponding Live
> > CD from Rawhide, which says "Fedora 8" on a splash screen, but "Fedora
> > release 7.90" when asked politely, still seems to have no .rpm files
> > but at least "rpm -qa" works the way it should.
Some second thought here. There are no .rpm packages because this is
a Live CD, and you aren't supposed to add to what is already
installed. I can live with that, but it was somewhat disconcerting
when the list of installed packages could not be generated.
> > Maybe there are updates/bug fixes on repository sites, but I haven't
> > gone looking for them because I don't yet have a real Fedora 7
> > installation to work with.
> >
>
> As a veteran of many RH releases, I have two pieces of hard-won wisdom to
> share:
>
> 1. Never be the first on your block
>
> 2. Occasionally just skip one
At the moment, I have skipped 4, 5, and 6, since I am still running
Fedora Core 3 on my main machine. I think it's time for a change.
Core 6 on the Thinkpad laptop seems OK, although I don't use it for
much besides bringing to InstallFests to have a known working computer
among all the others that turn up there.
carl
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