280 Part III . (Web host) Choosing and Installing a
280 Part III . Choosing and Installing a Linux Distribution Growing Community Support for Fedora Despite some confusion about the future and direction of the Fedora Project, new initiatives and Web sites have popped up to support Fedora. One of best new official assets of the Fedora Project is the FedoraForum.org (http://fedoraforum.org/) site s recognition as the official end-user forum of choice. FedoraForum.org features news, galleries, and (as you might guess) forums for sharing questions and information about Fedora. As of this writing, there were about 500,000 posts to these forums and nearly 50,000 members. The forum for posting HOWTO articles has more than 5,000 posts itself. The Unofficial Fedora FAQ (www.fedorafaq.org) has become an excellent resource for getting answers to the most constant, nagging questions about Fedora. This FAQ is a good place to start for learning how to get all those things you need (MP3 players, instant messaging, video players, access to your Windows XP NTFS file system, and so on). On the whole, the total amount of software available and greater stability among software repositories (I discuss them next) has meant that it s possible to get a much better total experience with Fedora Core than was even possible with Red Hat Linux. The strange thing is that, for reasons I describe later, people seem to trust Fedora less than they did Red Hat Linux. Fedora Extras One concern with Fedora Core is that, as Red Hat adds more enterprise-class features to test for upcoming RHEL releases, more features for home, small office, and educational users will be pushed out. With Red Hat s current commitment to keeping Fedora Core to the size of four CDs, packages that have been cut from Fedora Core are finding their way into Fedora Extras. Unlike Fedora Legacy repositories, which consist of updates to software already in the Fedora distribution, the Fedora Extras Project encourages people to build their software into RPM packages that can easily be installed in Fedora Core and Red Hat Linux systems. Guidelines for becoming a Fedora Extras developer are available from the Fedora Extras wiki (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/extras). When someone builds an RPM and submits it to Fedora Extras, it is reviewed and, if approved, added to the Fedora Extras repository. This process offers several advantages to the Fedora community: . Packages that people relied on from previous Fedora releases don t just disappear. . While Fedora Extras packages are not necessarily tested as thoroughly as those in Fedora Core, being in Extras adds a level of security and stability to a package that can t be guaranteed if you grab software randomly from the Internet.
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