On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 11:30, Cory Bertsch wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 12:07, ceri shaw wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am new to PDXLUG but not entirely new to Linux. I have been running > > Redhat 9 for about a year and there are some areas that I am fairly > > proficient in and others that I am astoundingly ignorant about. Anyway > > what I wanted to ask was, how wise is it to upgrade to Fedora Core 2 > > right now? I have read a number of reviews, some favourable, others > > not so favourable. > > I think that it's alright to upgrade to FC2. I use it on my home machine > and laptop and it's really nice. The only problem w/it is that there > aren't a lot of RPM's available for it. > > The only bug that seems to cause people headaches is that if you are > dual-booting Windows/Linux it would sometimes make Windows unable to > boot. I dual boot on the two machines I have it on and it works fine. > > If you do want to install FC2, don't do an upgrade, install it from > scratch. Then be sure to use apt for rpm (http://freshrpms.net/) on it > with synaptic. It's really nice for installing packages. >
Some nice repositories to choose from: DAG; http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ KDE: http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ GNOME: http://people.ecsc.co.uk/~matt/repository.html ..those get you the bulk of the basics... i have approx 6 or so different repositories that I use currently. If I find something that isn't in apt, then I bug the FreshRPMS mailing list and ask for it. Every once in a while they listen and add something for me. :-) (like "madman") -Robby -- Robby Russell | Owner.Developer.Geek PLANET ARGON | www.planetargon.com Portland, OR | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 503.351.4730 | blog.planetargon.com _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
