Re: Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!
by Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm proud to be announce the availability of our Fedora Sugar Spin,
> which incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment on a Fedora Live CD.
>
> So, what is this in specific? With this spin, you'll be able to run
> Sugar, which is developed by Sugarlabs and the desktop environment used
> on the OLPC, directly from a Live CD! You'll find several activities on
> the image including most notably...
>
> * sugar-browse - a web browsing activity based on xulrunner
> * sugar-write - a word processor based on abiword
>
> ...among with several other applications introducing e.g. chat support.
>
> We, the OLPC SIG, will be importing further activities into Fedora,
> which might be installed using 'yum install sugar-*' at a later time.
>
> Where can you get it? Easily, here:
>
> http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/sugar-spin.iso
Okay, this link is now highly obsolete!
Please don't use it or link to it anymore. The image there has been
removed, since it has a new home. You'll find it at it's new location,
which is here:
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/olpc/0.82/i686/sugar-spin.iso
> Here's the SHA1 checksum, just if you're interested:
>
> f032ab45aa116c2728dcd2d676e29a5ee114fd1d sugar-spin.iso
>
> And what if you wanted to put it quickly onto your USB Key? Even easier!
> You'll just need to grab Luke Macken's liveusb-creator, which already
> includes support for the Sugar Spin. Here's the link:
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liveusb-creator/liveusb-creator-3.0...
The liveusb-creator link to the Sugar Spin is still the old one, so
you'll need to download the image manually from the new location above,
until this gets fixed. We're working on it!
> Thank you everybody, who made this possible!
>
> --Sebastian
Again, thanks!
--Sebastian
15 years, 5 months
Is there a 32-bit compat yum group for X11?
by Neal Becker
I noticed (when trying to install codeweavers crossover office) that 1 machine was missing all the 32-bit compat X11 libs (this is on x86_64) and wouldn't install. Is there a yum group to install all these (and, how would I find out?)
15 years, 5 months
Fedora vs RedHat
by Kevin Kempter
Hi All;
What's the real differences between Fedora and say RHEL Desktop ?
Specifically I'm considering buying one of the following for my new
dual core laptop w 12G of memory:
Workstation with Standard Subscription
or
Workstation and Multi-OS with Basic Subscription
Thanks in advance...
15 years, 5 months
[OT] Max Spevack in Linux Format interview
by lostson
Well got my new Linux Format the other day and on the bottom here is a
little blurb about an interview with Max talking about freedom and
fedora. I have briefly scanned the article and looks to be a good read.
Fedora has been getting alot of coverage in Llinux Format this year much
more than previous years anyway. So things must be getting better right.
Well if your not a subscriber like me I'm sure you can pick up a copy up
at your local book stand or news store. Enjoy.
--
LostSon
http://lostsonsvault.org
15 years, 5 months
Old Fedora or Redhat Updates.
by Reg Clemens
I have some current kernel code that I would like to compare to an
implementation of several years ago.
When I try to compile the old kernel, I get an error message telling
me that my C compiler is too new (!).
So, I have some old CDs, and can install an old Redhat (v9) or Fedora
(v1 or v2) but I realize that there were many updates to all of these.
Needless to say, I dont find any updates left on the WEB for these
old distributions.
I havent followed what people selling CDs have. Does anyone sell
OLD distributions including the updates?
Im sure I can get along without the updates (unless they turn out to
be to something significant) as this will all be done behind a good
firewall, but Im interested in knowing whats available. Perhaps in
the future I should copy all the updates to a DVD before they go
away,-- just in case.
--
Reg.Clemens
reg(a)dwf.com
15 years, 5 months
FC9 login without password
by Edward S.P. Leong
Dear All,
Mine is FC9...
So, how to config the user profile, then the user login without password
( disable password ) ?
Thanks !
Edward.
15 years, 5 months
the proposed super-duper new f10 laptop
by Robert P. J. Day
is there anything i should know about linux compatibility with
the following:
* dell studio 15 laptop
* intel core 2 duo T8100 CPU (2.1GHz/800MHz FSB)
* WUXGA display
* 4GB shared dual channel DDR2 RAM @ 667MHz
* 320GB SATA HD
* 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon 3450 video
* Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy
is there anything on that list that should give me pause
regarding running fedora (or linux in general)? thanks.
rday
15 years, 5 months
best fedora-out-of-the-box pcmcia wifi?
by Matthew Miller
Does anyone have a recommendation for a modern PCMCIA/PC Card wifi card
which just works out of the box with recent Fedora? I can download a
firmware blob if I have to, but extra points for not having to. These days
all new laptops have wireless built in so all the current info I can find
seems focused on that.
--
Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org>
15 years, 5 months
VLC QT4 interface?
by David Hláčik
Hello guys,
I have just installed VLC 0.9.5 from rpmfusion to my Fedora 10 Rawhide. I am
a gnome desktop user, but also have qt4 installed - because of Skype.
What surprised me, that this version of VLC opened for me under QT4
Interface. Is there a way to have it under GTK as previous versions?
Thanks!
David
15 years, 5 months
