I have always had ifconfig with fedora... by default /sbin and /usr/sbin
are not in anyones path, so you have to use absolute pathnames.

Instead of using apt-get, try using yum.  I liked yum better.  The thing
I didn't like about either, was that the packages were not really up to
date... i.e. gaim was at 0.68 (its now at 0.74), and a couple of other
things.  That could be fixed by adding repositories to either apt-get or
yum.  For gui frontends to apt-get, synaptic is quite nice.

but you know, I run gentoo now :)

--mat

On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 17:27, David Jackson wrote:
> Final Review of Fedora Core 1
> 
> There's not much left to say, so I will keep it brief.  
> 
> The Fedora Core 1 package manager is broke, on many, many levels.  It
> was broke in Redhat 8, Redhat 9, and now it's broke in Fedora Core.
> 
> The first thing that you need to do after installing Fedora Core 1 is
> install apt-get, and then do a "apt-get upgrade".  I found that I also
> had to add the DAG repository to the list of repositories that apt-get
> uses.  
> 
> But, on the flip side, it runs beautifully.  A basic default
> installation is pretty much everything you will install anyhow
> (although, I was disappointed that it didn't install a DVD player).  
> 
> I will note, however, that it does install a lot of things that you
> never know are there, and doesn't install some things that you expect to
> be there.  Ifconfig from net-tools is one of them; I was quite unsure
> how to get my local IP without it.  It's absence puzzles me.
> 
> That's pretty much it.  I am interested to see how Fedora Core 2 works
> out.  If they fix the package manager, it will certainly be an distro
> "for the rest of us".
> 
> David Jackson
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> General mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
> 

Reply via email to