On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Brian van den Broek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This morning, I've installed Fedora 17 (LXDE edition) on my desktop. > I've run only debian derivatives (mostly ubuntu and crunchbang). I've > been running linux exclusively since 2005. > > The ways of those who talk of yum and rpms are strange and unfamiliar > to me. As I suspect other MLUG'ers have gone from ubuntu (or at least > debian-based) to Fedora, I am hopeful that some wisdom can be shared > to help me avoid the painful bits of the process. Anything I can watch > out for that folks with my transition tend to stumble over?
Granted my experience with RPM distros is a little far behind, but be mindful of how you install packages. Make sure you use yum, and avoid installing rpms directly as much as possible. Most of the issues I remember having had directly to do with the way dependencies are resolved by yum and rpm, but that remains, by and large, the same kind of thing as with debian-based distros: if you install packages manually, you'll have to deal with installing the dependencies manually too. I seem to recall having to be a bit more careful about this with yum as well. mainly to be careful about not interrupting installations of packages. Again, nothing new there. The other main difference is that if you've been configuring network interfaces manually, the methods to use are very different than editing just /etc/network/interfaces (and instead you have a file per interface, and a key-value pair syntax); but for most intents and purposes, NetworkManager should do the job quite well. If I may ask though, why switch distro "bases" entirely? There's a big world between Ubuntu and Debian already; and in all cases (rpm or deb distros) you're able to install your own custom environment as you see fit. I know of people who use ratpoison (or awesomewm) as a tiling desktop manager rather than anything else on Ubuntu, with great results. If you're familiar with a particular type of distro, I'd encourage you to stick with it when possible rather than "waste" time relearning things. In all cases you'll be customizing your environment anyway, so might as well not change the underlying foundation if you're already okay with it, and just need to change the graphical UI. Personally I'd be happy with just a VT most of the time, if I could get away with it ;) Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <[email protected]> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: [email protected] 4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93 _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
