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2006/10/24

The Fedora Core 6 (Zod) freshrpms packages website has been put online at the same time the distribution has been released. All of the i386, x86_64 and ppc packages are immediately available. Packages now include some dkms-enabled kernel modules (madwifi, lirc, ntfs...), a fully working ipw3945 set of packages and Nvidia binary drivers.

2006/03/20

The Fedora Core 5 (Bordeaux) freshrpms packages website has been put online at the same time the distribution has been released. Only i386 and x86_64 packages are available today, the ppc ones will follow in a day or two.

2005/06/28

The Fedora Core 4 (Stentz) freshrpms packages website has been put online at last, although the packages had been available since the official Fedora Core 4 release.

2005/04/04

The freshrpms.net website has been updated here and there, and got imported into the rpmforge.net subversion repository for easier maintenance.

2004/07/23

Starting today, nearly all packages for Fedora Core 2 are also available for x86_64. Lucky AMD64 owners, rejoice!

2004/05/21

Nearly all packages have been rebuilt for Fedora Core 2. Quite a few have been omitted since they are now part of the core set of packages (flac, libdv, alsa, speex...), which is great since it means more "stuff out of the box". The last few packages will be coming shortly.

2003/11/04

Some alarming news about Red Hat and its Linux products have been posted all over the web during the past day or so. I'm receiving way too many direct questions to be able to answer them all, so here are a few links : The Fedora Project (please read the "About"!) and The Fedora Legacy mailing-list. Red Hat is opening more its core distribution to the community, with the goal of making it more complete and incorporating new technologies earlier. Official updates will be released during a shorter period than currently, but Red Hat has explicitely left a vacant space for a "Fedora Legacy" community project which will produce updates for end-of-life'd releases. I really can't think of this as a bad decision. Oh, and yes, you will continue to find all the add-on software you're used to on freshrpms.net, how can anyone even doubt that? :-)

2003/07/01

I just found a wonderful quote today : The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless. - Hugh Downs. Learn to live freely, learn GNU/Linux! :-)

2003/05/21

Because of bandwidth and hosting limitations, freshrpms.net is probably going to be changing location in the near future. To allow such a migration, hardware donations would be very useful, and could include : A rackable dual P3 server with as many 3-1/2 drive bays as possible, 3ware PCI IDE controllers, 120GB or greater IDE hard drives. If you can provide any of these, please contact me.

2003/05/04

Thanks a lot to Ayo73 for the new freshrpms.net colors, logo, button and web design, and also to Chris and Patrick for the CSS suggestions. Everything is valid XHTML 1.0 strict, valid CSS (CSS1 with only z-index which is CSS2), and renders fine with a recent mozilla or konqueror. Please report any display issues you might have.

2003/03/31

Red Hat Linux 9 has been released to Red Hat Network subscribers today. And new freshrpms.net packages for it are here, available through apt and yum, and include all the usual multimedia applications: xine, mplayer, ogle, xmms-mp3...

2003/02/26

The new freshrpms.net website is finally here. The look has completely changed, and the entire content has been moved around and updated.