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10th November 2004, 06:07 PM

PompeyBlue Offline

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What is a "distribution" ?

Is it simply a collection of rpm's and an installation app ?

FC3 seems radically different, but I get the impression, I could've just un-installed stuff and then built FC2 up to FC3, as they are all off the shelf components ?

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