package management
by Glen Wagley
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!
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20 years, 6 months
CNET News Article
by Don R Maxwell
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?
20 years, 6 months
iTunes inside of VMWare inside of Windows
by Roberto J. Dohnert
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
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20 years, 6 months
netpbm
by Chris
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
20 years, 6 months
Up2date hangs
by Philip Balister
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
20 years, 6 months
fedora 0.95 and mozilla firebird
by Rafael Ferreira
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
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Trans-Soft, Inc.
20 years, 6 months
SATA question
by Jason Tesser
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
20 years, 6 months
I845 video chipset
by Desquerre Yohann
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
20 years, 6 months
