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The move to Linux-Things you need to know

It may not be quite as easy as you think...

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Update: yum makes life easier. To install a package, for exaple, The GIMP, you would go ito terminal and type 'yum install gimp' or for Firefox, 'yum install firefox' etc. No more web searching!!
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Reply #76 from WinCustomize Forums Top
think she's already downloading Fedora.

I don't see why anybody wouldn't like it.


Maybe because you have to configure so many things after install. I'm using Xandros. it plays MP3, Mpeg, DVD and tons of other stuff staight out of the box. Did I mention it also has Crossover so I can use Windows apps straight out of the box?
Reply #77 from WinCustomize Forums Top
amizzz has 30 gigs that she wants to put to good use.

And, amizzz, you can see why there are so many distros out there, people have different tastes.

I havent found anything I have had to configure. If you tell Helix to play an MP3, then it gives a link to RealPlayer, which has an RPM version that you click on, click Open, and bada-bing, it starts installing it.
SoundPackager - Customize the Windows sound scheme
Reply #78 from Stardock Forums Top
I've been reading up on BSD. I want to set up a FreeBSD file server next winter, if I can get hold of the hardware I need.

FWIW, a few things to keep in mind (sorry if you're already aware of these, but this might be of general interest as well)

OpenBSD -- by far the most secure general purpose O/S "out of the box" -- perfect for edge servers and high-availability services (e.g., mail, routing, etc.). Just added SMP support.

FreeBSD -- an excellent *nix for either workstations but most especially for high load servers -- unfortunately x86_64 support is still shaky and SMP/SMT architectures have lingering concurrency and lock issues.

NetBSD -- runs on almost every ISA imaginable

Gentoo Linux -- a great server distribution for x86_64 and, in general, high powered machines* -- combines many of the good ideas from the BSD world (e.g., it's ports-like portage system)

* I use it on my dual Opteron development server
Reply #79 from WinCustomize Forums Top
* I use it on my dual Opteron development server




Did you have to compile your kernel to get it to run on the dual processors?
Reply #80 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Meowy,
Here I am in Fedora/FireFox. I was away from it for a couple of days & then had assorted problems because the BIOS didn't want to boot from the USB flash. In the end I found somebody's instructions for using RawWrite to transfer the boot image to a set of floppies (remember Win 95 installs?). Speaking of Win 95, I'd say Gnome is to KDE approx as Win 95 is to XP with OD installed. Something in that range...
Reply #81 from WinCustomize Forums Top


At least you got it working.
Now you know why I love K.

I had to adjust fonts in Firefox for it to be to my liking, but the Preferences are on the Edit menu in Fedora Firefox!
Reply #82 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I could tell I need to adjust FireFox when I got to WC forum-- The fonts were strange in the strangest way. The print was uneven the way a photocopy is uneven when the toner is low. I'll mess with it more over the weekend. I'm in IE now-- in the mood for a new WB.
Reply #83 from WinCustomize Forums Top
in the mood for a new WB.


Hehe.

Gotta have your Stardock.

In FF, I was able to switch all fonts to Sans (leave the fixed one to monospace) which mad it much better. I might have changed the size too.
Reply #84 from WinCustomize Forums Top
a set of floppies (remember Win 95 installs?)


My '95 install was on a CD.
Reply #85 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Maybe I'm thinking of 3.1-- I remember wandering around work with stacks of floppies
Reply #86 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Maybe I'm thinking of 3.1-- I remember wandering around work with stacks of floppies


Windows 3.1 - Disk 11?

I think I remember that.......
Reply #87 from WinCustomize Forums Top
*shudders*
Disk 11 does have an ominous ring to it...
Fedora by floppy wasn't even close, but the bulk if it was on the HD-- only the boot image was on diskettes.

BTW, the KDE site has a later release than the version in the Fedora install. Forgetting I'm not in Kansas anymore, I did what seemed right to install it & then spent a while getting back to where I was before I started (I think ). Is it a job for yum? Where do I start?
Reply #88 from WinCustomize Forums Top
NEVER UPDATE A DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT WHILE IN X.

Hit Ctrl-Alt-F1.

Login as root.

Then do yum update

When it's done, type reboot
Reply #89 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oops-- Will let you know later
Reply #90 from WinCustomize Forums Top
One of those frustrating nights-- I logged on as root to install some cursors. In the Control Center, the button for installing cursor sets is hidden when I'm me. Installed 3 or 4 cursor sets, robooted & logged in as myself. None of the new cursor sets was visible. Sitting here writing, I just realiized there must be a setting for permissions. Will check later.

I was going to do the KDE upgrade, but was too sleepy after messing around with other stuff. I came across a Fedora how-to on using yum. It recommends not logging into root for installs & upgrades. Looks like they changed the functionality so a user gives permission to do root stuff by using root's password:

Managing Software with yum http://www.fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/
Avoid Logging in with the Root Account :
You do not need to log in with the root account in order to manage your Fedora system. All of the commands shown in this tutorial that require root access will prompt you for the root password. The example terminal commands use su -c to provide this facility.

Don't think I damaged anything yesterday.
Reply #91 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Running yum made me understand RPMs better, i think--- is it correct that just because KDE.org has links to KDE with version numbers higher than mine, the updates are not necessarily compatible wtih the type of Linux on the PC? Yum specifically checked the Fedora repositories & I got the impression from the documentation that there may be version-specific dependencies that yum accounts for before it will install files from other repositories.

Does yum run in the background all the time, or does the user have to run it periodically to check for updates?
Reply #92 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It is quite difficult to install programs from source in Fedora.

yum can do 'more' when logged in as root.