Comments on: More on Fedora http://www.gadgetwisdom.com/2009/03/02/more-on-fedora/ Guide to a Tech-Savvy Lifestyle without Emptying Your Wallet Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:39:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Getting a Copy of Fedora | Gadget Wisdom http://www.gadgetwisdom.com/2009/03/02/more-on-fedora/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Getting a Copy of Fedora | Gadget Wisdom Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:00:54 +0000 http://www.gadgetwisdom.com/?p=274#comment-165 [...] our own blog posts, but we continue to admit it when we’ve learned something new. But another comment from the head of the Fedora Project prompted us to write this post, on how to get a copy of Fedora [...] [...] our own blog posts, but we continue to admit it when we’ve learned something new. But another comment from the head of the Fedora Project prompted us to write this post, on how to get a copy of Fedora [...]

]]> By: Paul W. Frields http://www.gadgetwisdom.com/2009/03/02/more-on-fedora/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Paul W. Frields Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:28:04 +0000 http://www.gadgetwisdom.com/?p=274#comment-164 Jeroen van Meeuwen from our Spins SIG was kind enough to send me this information on Jigdo: "The jigdo method of distribution basically works as follows: for every file in a .iso that you tell jigdo is available from somewhere else, it strips the file (or slice, or piece of the .iso jigsaw) from the .iso leaving you with a relatively small .iso.template (only the parts of the .iso that are not available from somewhere else) and a list of files you can get from somewhere else. "Now, with installation media, this means there's a small part of the .iso you need to download in the form of a .iso.template, while the rest (install.img, and all RPMs) is available from any mirror (and you are going to use the closest and fastest one). "With Live media however, the contents of the .iso is just a few files. Some of them are really small (vmlinuz0, initrd0.img), while others are very large and make up 99% of the size of the .iso (osmin.img and squashfs.img). Splitting those slices from the .iso isn't very useful, because you would end up downloading a small .iso.template, several very small files, and then one single beast of a file (squashfs.img)." Hopefully this helps clarify our jigdo availability. Thanks for the question! Jeroen van Meeuwen from our Spins SIG was kind enough to send me this information on Jigdo:

“The jigdo method of distribution basically works as follows: for every file in a .iso that you tell jigdo is available from somewhere else, it strips the file (or slice, or piece of the .iso jigsaw) from the .iso leaving you with a relatively small .iso.template (only the parts of the .iso that are not available from somewhere else) and a list of files you can get from somewhere else.

“Now, with installation media, this means there’s a small part of the .iso you need to download in the form of a .iso.template, while the rest (install.img, and all RPMs) is available from any mirror (and you are going to use the closest and fastest one).

“With Live media however, the contents of the .iso is just a few files. Some of them are really small (vmlinuz0, initrd0.img), while others are very large and make up 99% of the size of the .iso (osmin.img and squashfs.img). Splitting those slices from the .iso isn’t very useful, because you would end up downloading a small .iso.template, several very small files, and then one single beast of a file (squashfs.img).”

Hopefully this helps clarify our jigdo availability. Thanks for the question!

]]> By: guru http://www.gadgetwisdom.com/2009/03/02/more-on-fedora/comment-page-1/#comment-153 guru Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:49:22 +0000 http://www.gadgetwisdom.com/?p=274#comment-153 Well, you did inspire us. We've bounced around a bit on what to talk about on this blog and hope our choices cause people to follow. Talking about Fedora is certainly something we can do. If you hunt back in our posts, when we talk software, we prefer items that are available for Linux, but have tried to remain distribution neutral. But, we've been with one Red Hat distribution or another since we bought Red Hat 7 at the store, back in the days where one did that. We rsynced the Fedora 10 prerelease repository starting a few weeks in advance so we could use Jigdo to get a copy of the DVD when it was released without contributing to the bandwidth issues. We emailed around to ask why a Jigdo release for the specialty Fedora spins, ie the XFCE spin was not offered and who to talk to about that(No response from anyone, as we recall). We run a local repository to maintain updates to four separate machines and eagerly await the addition of Presto to that to save bandwidth. We read the Fedora News every week. We walk the Open Source Walk and we talk the Open Source Talk. We should write more about it. Well, you did inspire us. We’ve bounced around a bit on what to talk about on this blog and hope our choices cause people to follow. Talking about Fedora is certainly something we can do. If you hunt back in our posts, when we talk software, we prefer items that are available for Linux, but have tried to remain distribution neutral. But, we’ve been with one Red Hat distribution or another since we bought Red Hat 7 at the store, back in the days where one did that. We rsynced the Fedora 10 prerelease repository starting a few weeks in advance so we could use Jigdo to get a copy of the DVD when it was released without contributing to the bandwidth issues. We emailed around to ask why a Jigdo release for the specialty Fedora spins, ie the XFCE spin was not offered and who to talk to about that(No response from anyone, as we recall). We run a local repository to maintain updates to four separate machines and eagerly await the addition of Presto to that to save bandwidth. We read the Fedora News every week.

We walk the Open Source Walk and we talk the Open Source Talk. We should write more about it.

]]> By: Paul W. Frields http://www.gadgetwisdom.com/2009/03/02/more-on-fedora/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Paul W. Frields Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:13:56 +0000 http://www.gadgetwisdom.com/?p=274#comment-152 Wow, I didn't expect to generate a whole separate story! :-) In case you're interested, you can read more about the "Four Foundations" -- which are essentially a statement of Fedora Project's core values, as well as part of our overall brand message -- here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations The draft article you quote was written by someone very new to Fedora and thus not all the comments in that article are necessarily on point. We encourage all our contributors to learn more about Fedora from our extensive wiki, and to ask questions about any part of the project in which they're interested. Thanks for the clarification and cheers! Wow, I didn’t expect to generate a whole separate story! :-) In case you’re interested, you can read more about the “Four Foundations” — which are essentially a statement of Fedora Project’s core values, as well as part of our overall brand message — here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations

The draft article you quote was written by someone very new to Fedora and thus not all the comments in that article are necessarily on point. We encourage all our contributors to learn more about Fedora from our extensive wiki, and to ask questions about any part of the project in which they’re interested. Thanks for the clarification and cheers!

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