On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Brian van den Broek <[email protected]> wrote: [...]
> So far, yum, I like a great deal. It somehow "fits" my mind better > than apt-get. (I never really used aptitude.) The GUI > wrapper/front-end that ships with Fedora 17 LXDE is mighty awful, > though. I did like synaptic for discoverability, but the current GUI > is too painful for that. Finding out about alternatives is on the > list. Do you mean you've started using synaptic on Fedora as well? It should be available, and work relatively as well as for deb packages. If you've got issues with the UI, please let me know off-list; maybe there are things I can do to help. As for aptitude... Well, using aptitude is dangerous at this point anyway. On Debian systems, aptitude doesn't know about multiarch (or at least, didn't last time I checked), so it's not recommended to use it for things like installing flash and whatnot. And once you've installed flash on your system at all, then all bets are off with what might happen on future package installs or upgrades. [...] >> 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. > > `"waste"' time learning? I don't understand! ;-) *re-* learning ;) > In seriousness, I've lived in Debian and derivative land since I > started with ubuntu and thought if I was changing I might as well see > how things look outside my comfort zone. I wanted to be positioned so > that in 6 months or so, I can make an informed choice between deb and > rpm based distros. (And, it seemed easier than switching teams to see > what this vi thing I hear so much about is like.) With a few weeks to > go until the teaching term starts, reinstalling anyway to take Totally agree. Not sure what you meant by "teaching term" here; but regardless, knowing more than one distro means getting into a good position if your plan is to work in systems administration :) > > So far, so good, but I'd love to know what was wrong with automounting > to /media/drivelabel that automounting to > /run/media/mountingusername/drivelabel fixes. That change is global on all distros -- meaning by this that it comes from "upstream", the udisks2 project. See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51709 , and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680403 . There are theoretically two wins from this: 1) You no longer need to clean up "stale" directories from mount points that may have gone wrong, that's done for you every reboot. 2) Per-user directories (though it's in reality a different change altogether) shield users from others' mounted devices. With some losses: - Directories manually created in /run/media won't stay. - The change technically violates the FHS. I'll leave you to make your own conclusions from the bug reports ;) 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
