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[Douglas G Mckendrick]

Evening all,
After 9 years of not using linux, I've finally come back to the fold....and
tada! I've installed fedora....23.  I've just used Yum to install GCC and a
few others, updated the system etc.

Is there any user groups in the Bedfordshire or Buckinghamshire area?

Apologies if it's off topic, but I'm a decade out of touch.

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards

Doug Mckendrick

[ToddAndMargo]

On 6/7/19 2:43 PM, Douglas G Mckendrick via users wrote:
> Evening all,
> After 9 years of not using linux, I've finally come back to the 
> fold....and tada! I've installed fedora....23.  I've just used Yum to 
> install GCC and a few others, updated the system etc.
>
> Is there any user groups in the Bedfordshire or Buckinghamshire area?
>
> Apologies if it's off topic, but I'm a decade out of touch.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Doug Mckendrick

Just being nosey, but why 23 and not 30?

[John Pilkington]

On 08/06/2019 00:43, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> On 6/7/19 2:43 PM, Douglas G Mckendrick via users wrote:
> > Evening all,
> > After 9 years of not using linux, I've finally come back to the 
> > fold....and tada! I've installed fedora....23.  I've just used Yum to 
> > install GCC and a few others, updated the system etc.
> >
> > Is there any user groups in the Bedfordshire or Buckinghamshire area?
> >
> > Apologies if it's off topic, but I'm a decade out of touch.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Doug Mckendrick
>
> Just being nosey, but why 23 and not 30?

I have preferred to run (current - 1), now 29;  that means most of the 
OS bugs have been shaken out (in part on this very active list) and bugs 
that I see are more likely to be  the result of 'improvements' in the 
cutting-edge version of my main application.

But 23 is way too far back.  Resources will be hard to find and there 
will be no security updates.

I tried a search for 'linux user groups uk,' but most of the results 
looked rather old.

Welcome back...

John P

[Douglas G Mckendrick]

Morning,
Completely agree, I updated to 30 last thing last night.  A relatively
simple, quick and easy process, I was impressed.  23 was just a copy I had
downloaded from  somewhere for the USB.  When I had it installed, it was
quite easy to find a link to download the latest version using the fedora
installer.
Initially I couldnt find a suitable download link to make a USB live CD
from windows.  It seemed alot easier when you could pick up linux format or
lud....or I'm just not very au fait.
30 is very different from 23, or the user interface.  I'll look forward to
having a play with it.  It installed gcc automatically this time, so that
was good.  I couldn't find it in the software tab.

On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, 09:08 John Pilkington,  wrote:
> On 08/06/2019 00:43, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> > On 6/7/19 2:43 PM, Douglas G Mckendrick via users wrote:
> > > Evening all,
> > > After 9 years of not using linux, I've finally come back to the
> > > fold....and tada! I've installed fedora....23.  I've just used Yum to
> > > install GCC and a few others, updated the system etc.
> > >
> > > Is there any user groups in the Bedfordshire or Buckinghamshire area?
> > >
> > > Apologies if it's off topic, but I'm a decade out of touch.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > >
> > > Doug Mckendrick
> >
> > Just being nosey, but why 23 and not 30?
>
> I have preferred to run (current - 1), now 29;  that means most of the
> OS bugs have been shaken out (in part on this very active list) and bugs
> that I see are more likely to be  the result of 'improvements' in the
> cutting-edge version of my main application.
>
> But 23 is way too far back.  Resources will be hard to find and there
> will be no security updates.
>
> I tried a search for 'linux user groups uk,' but most of the results
> looked rather old.
>
> Welcome back...
>
> John P
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[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2019-06-08 at 11:33 +0100, Douglas G Mckendrick via users
wrote:
> 30 is very different from 23, or the user interface.  I'll look forward to
> having a play with it.  It installed gcc automatically this time, so that
> was good.  I couldn't find it in the software tab.

[Please don't top-post on the list]

By "the user interface" I presume you mean Gnome. There are also
several others desktops available, notably KDE, Mate, etc. which some
find easier to use. Some of these have their own mailing-lists for
desktop-specific issues (rather than general Fedora queries).

poc

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2019-06-07 at 22:43 +0100, Douglas G Mckendrick via users
wrote:
> Evening all,
> After 9 years of not using linux, I've finally come back to the fold....and
> tada! I've installed fedora....23.  I've just used Yum to install GCC and a
> few others, updated the system etc.

Really bad idea, especially if you've been away for a while. You should
install Fedora 30. In case you're not up to speed on Fedora, it's worth
noting that new releases come every 6 months and after the release of
version N, version N-2 reaches end of life and receives no further
support, not even critical security updates. So be prepared to update
at least once a year.

poc