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package management
by Glen Wagley 26 Oct '03

26 Oct '03

I'm new to the list and I just installed fedora .95 yesterday. I noticed that yum and apt repositories are available. I'm used to apt and I have played with yum a tiny bit. I'm assuming both repositories are updated at the same time but is there an "official" package management tool? What are the advantages of each? What do yall recommend? Thanx! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Glen Wagley <glen(a)wagdog.homelinux.com> "Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible." -Alan Kay -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CNET News Article
by Don R Maxwell 26 Oct '03

26 Oct '03

This morning's lead article in CNET News.com entitled "Red Hat overhauls flagship Linux" had references to Fedora which I found to be be disappointing. They quoted from users in an email list that I believe may have been confused about Fedora. Perhaps some folks on this list can clarify a couple of points. First, there were concerns noted that Fedora will be a fast-changing distro, not conducive to a stable working environment. Granted, wholesale upgrades from one release to another might break things and could consume resources to accomplish the task. However, I am unclear as to whether the commenter's were concerned about ongoing upgrades within a release or were concerned about the need to upgrade all servers and desktops perhaps three times a year. What should a user's expectation be with respect to planned upgrades and releases? Second, one comment described Fedora as "possibly full of breakage." I think the poster may be theorizing about potential future upgrades. I certainly hope that the comment was not made on the basis of the stability of test releases! Third, (unrelated to the news article) concerns access to patches and updates. Is it expected that mirror sites will be able to provide good repositories for apt or yum once FC1 is officially released? Or will we continue to point Fedora's up2date to the redhat.com repository?

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iTunes inside of VMWare inside of Windows
by Roberto J. Dohnert 26 Oct '03

26 Oct '03

I have recieved numerous e-mails about this issue and I thought I would make it known to any and all interested parties since I am the proclaimed expert of Windows inside of VMWare. Yes, the new iTunes can be run inside of Windows inside of VMWare but, (yes you knew a but was coming) You cannot run visualizations because VMWare drivers do not support OpenGL, Do not allocate less than 256mb of RAM for the guest OS, I highly reccomend upgrading to VMWare 4.0.5 since memory management was greatly improved in that version. If you wish to use it inside of VMWare 4.0.0 or below, YOU CANNOT BE DOING ANYTHING IN LINUX. The Apple Music Store works, you can access the store and download and do what you want. If you wish to make custom CD's on an internal CD-RW you are out of luck I think, I have to do some more testing with mine, but upon inital testing it didnt work. but with External burners it works fine, unload the USB mass storage Modules in Linux before you can mount the external burner in the guest OS. If you are going to use the iPod with VMWare make sure it is not mounted in Linux otherwise VMWare refuses to see it -- ---- For information on PowerPC Linux and x86 Linux please go to my website: http://www.geocities.com/kane121975/ I have many specific SuSE Linux related how-tos and much more helpful information Yahoo IM: kane121975 AOL: Desparado166 ICQ: 119807053 MSN Messenger: latinlover209

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up to date package problem
by Desquerre Yohann 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

hello everybody !!! The rhn applet say to me there are 97 packages to update but all the repositories i use don't have this packages. Is any one may say to me how i have to configure my apt source.list file to update them or how to configure yum to manage to do that ?? for the moment i use apt (i didn't manage to use apt directy with the http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/ repository) here is the conf of my source.list : " # Fedora Linux repositories for Red Hat Linux 0.95 repository # University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii, USA rpm http://download.fedora.us/fedora redhat/0.95/i386 os updates stable rpm-src http://download.fedora.us/fedora redhat/0.95/i386 os updates stable #Livna.org pour les packages non autorisé rpm http://rpm.livna.org/ fedora/0.95/i386 stable unstable testing rpm-src http://rpm.livna.org/ fedora/0.95/i386 stable unstable testing #Fedora ayo rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/rawhide/i386 os rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/rawhide/i386 os " Thanks for help...

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netpbm
by Chris 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

I've noticed that the netpbm package that comes with fedora is only at verison 9.24 which is almost two years old. The latest version is 10.18.1, is there any reason why this package has not been updated to the latest stable release? TIA, Chris

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Up2date hangs
by Philip Balister 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

This morning up2date is reporting updates available for Fedora. So I run it and they all download. When it starts installing, it just sits there hung. Running rpm -Uvh *rpm in /var/spool/up2date gives: [root@tentacle up2date]# rpm -Uvh *rpm warning: acpid-1.0.2-5.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e418e3aa error: open of <!DOCTYPE failed: No such file or directory error: open of HTML failed: No such file or directory error: open of PUBLIC failed: No such file or directory Thoughts? Philip

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fedora 0.95 and mozilla firebird
by Rafael Ferreira 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

Does anyone knows what is the easier way to get firebird installed on core 0.95? yeah yeah I could compile it but I would rather not, I like being able to easily rpm something out of my system. Thanks! - raf -- Rafael Ferreira Systems Administrator Trans-Soft, Inc.

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by jackson 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

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SATA question
by Jason Tesser 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

I have a computer with onboard SATA. Asus P4C800 board. I have had problems installing Linux on it. Does anyone know, will Fedora install ok with SATA? It is the only harddisk in the computer Jason Tesser Web/Multimedia Programmer Northland Ministries Inc. (715)324-6900 x3050

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I845 video chipset
by Desquerre Yohann 24 Oct '03

24 Oct '03

Hi all, Speaking about the video driver, is there any one which manage to make work an i845GL chipset up to 1020*868... I would very happy to kown that !!! thanks

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