Stefan Neufeind wrote:
Hi, I lately remembered the discussion about updated, unofficial FC4-ISOs (aka "respins") and found the URL again on the mailinglist-archive: http://fedora.isphuset.no/ Great job Hans did. I wonder if it might be possible to offer them officially? Especially with FC4 some quite important install-problems have been fixed, e.g. due to a more recent kernel. If Redhat does not want to put the burden of additional traffic and disc-space on it's servers and mirrors then maybe it would be possible to officially validate the build distributed by Torrent and offer such a torrent officially? The service Hans offers is really, really great for the community. However I see that for some people it might be a problem of trust (security) to use ISOs from _some_ source. So in case Fedora might see a chance to either bundle respins from time to time and distribute those on torrent officially or validate the integrity of Hans' current ISOs maybe they could declare them official FC4.2?
If someone is going to respin the distro, they should at least fix the bug in syslinux that causes the kernel to crash immediately on most Pentium4 and higher Intel hardware. That was probably the biggest screwup of the FC4 installer, as the 'garbage' workaround is not obvious and people think they simply can't install Fedora.
It is a different matter about making it "official". I personally think we simply don't have time to deal with that and it is the best use of Red Hat's resources to work as hard as possible on the next release. We have barely a month between Test1 and Test2 release by the schedule, which is insanely demanding on our workload.
Almost anybody can offer a respin from a bittorrent. The hard part is organizing the community so the right people work together on the right problems. Simply updating the packages should not the primary goal of a respin.
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