Hi Brian I cannot say I am a LInux GURU. I am currently programming in C via terminal mode, and teaching myself QT / C++ gui programming.
If you have questions about Fedora, send them along. If I can answer them, I will be delighted to do so. Fedora is the beta distribution for CENTOS, Scientific Linux and RedHat. and others. I use the 64bit version on my netbook, as it is a dual core Intel Atom, at 1.6 ghz speed. Not sure if that should be 1.6ghz or mhz. I mentioned livna from which I download libdvdcss and the rest from rpmfusion. the files that control the appearance in the list of download sites is stored in /etc/yum.repos.d By the way, Fedora 17 did onething that other distributions have not done. It put every system library under /usr (one location). If you look for /system/bin for example, it will be found under /usr. This change is in recognition that disks of gigabyte size are the norm, and the spreading of the files is not required. The benefit is that if you happen to install a SSD device, all the system files will be in /usr and all will be stored on the SSD. With the arrival of btfrs some time in a new release, the /usr directory will be copy on write managed, so if a newly installed feature is buggy, you will be able via btfrs to do an undo of the last update. As well, restoring /usr will work as well. For the past few years, I have never had the requirement to reinstall a Fedora release. ------------------ Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein 50 years in Information Technology and going strong. Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, and tomorrow will be even better. mailto:[email protected] alternative: [email protected] www.itbms.biz --- On Sat, 8/4/12, Brian van den Broek <[email protected]> wrote: From: Brian van den Broek <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] gotchas for refugee from ubuntu/debian-land new to Fedora? To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, August 4, 2012, 12:13 PM On 4 August 2012 11:16, Leslie S Satenstein <[email protected]> wrote: > > In Fedora 16 mount locations were the same as every other distribution > /media > > With Fedora 17, as you pointed out, it is /run/media/username/ > > I guess the change has to do with multi-user secured access. If you were > able to mount a device, then it is yours, and if someone signs on with > another logon id, it is not theirs to use. > > I did notice that if a device was present at boot time, that it appeared > as /media/device. > > Perhaps the automount feature should ask if the mount is private or > shared. Hi Leslie, Thanks for the replies. I think I would prefer it to prompt and to deal with a private mount by assigning ownership and permissions. But then, I did cross over expecting things to be different :-) > As far as Debian and UBUNTU, I like the former best because of Gnome2. I like GNOME2 far better than GNOME3 or that unity bollocks. But, I've always liked more minimal desktops. I used XFCE for a while, and for the last year I was travelling and had lsptops with crunchbang. Openbox makes XFCE feel like bloatware. > Ubuntu's favorite bar is fixed and takes up too much real-estate on the > left with the favorites bar. That favorites bar reduces the amount of space > I have for the browser on my netbook. > > Fedora's Favorites bar moves out of the way, yielding more screen area. Not nearly as much as you get back with the LXDE respin! I booted live CDs of the various spins and the standard GNOME desktop. The later I just hated. The KDE one appealed briefly until I regained my senses and realized how many clock cycles (mine for the endless tweaking and my poor aging desktops for running it all) I'd be throwing to the pretty and promptly installed the LXDE spin. > Fedora believes only in Free software, and to avoid lawsuites (Fedora is > in USA), they do not mention distributions wheren on open source stuff can > be obtained. However you will quickly discover rpmfusion, and livna from > where you can download vlc and other software. > > There is also an interesting program, yumex to list all files that are > for 32 or 64 bit Fedora versions. yumex is the yum GUI that I said I found awful. Different strokes, I guess. I think synaptic is much better than yumex. But, I am quickly coming to believe yum is better than apt-get. As the above will have suggested, better terminal tools win over better GUI tools for me, every time. > Fedora has many updates, and even with all the updates, it is a very > solid high quality distribution. > > If I was to choose my second distribution, I would be hard pressed to > decide. I like the others I mentioned as well. If you've not tried crunchbang, I recommend it highly for netbook use. Best, Brian vdB _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
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