SRPMS or i386

[bfcx]

I'm wanta try out fedora and i notice they have SourceRPM's and i386 binaries. If i download the SRPMS does it have the same installer and everything, but just compiles everything while installing? or is it just the source and no installer? Thanx.

[pbharris]

hello,
no - SRPMS are sourc code, so unless you plan on doing mucho compliling i would get teh i386

[Dbest]

Yep what PB said, Fedora is an rpm distro which means it's a little easier to keep track of apps that you have intalled, and also it makes it easier to install/uninstall applications. Compiling code would give you a more optimized application for your machine... just download the i386 binaries .

[nukes]

OR if they have an i586 (pentium) version, I'd download that, but it wouldn't make much of a difference.