Re: [LUAU] Dealing with the Bleeding Edge
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 16:38 -1000, Peter Besenbruch wrote: Fedora's desktop is a lot prettier, though. If they would only use APT for RPM, I would be quite satisfied. ;) Would this work? :P $ yum info apt Loading installonlyn plugin Available Packages Name : apt Arch : i386 Version: 0.5.15lorg3.2 Release: 10.fc7 Size : 980 k Repo : updates Summary: Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool with RPM support Description: APT-RPM is a port of Debian's apt tools for RPM based distributions. It provides the apt-get utility that provides a simple, safe way to install and upgrade packages. APT features complete installation ordering, multiple source capability and several other useful features. ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [LUAU] Dealing with the Bleeding Edge
Julian Yap wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 16:38 -1000, Peter Besenbruch wrote: Fedora's desktop is a lot prettier, though. If they would only use APT for RPM, I would be quite satisfied. ;) Would this work? :P $ yum info apt Unfortunately, they don't seem to emphasize it. Does APT even work with the official repositories? -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [LUAU] Dealing with the Bleeding Edge
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 22:22 -1000, Peter Besenbruch wrote: Julian Yap wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 16:38 -1000, Peter Besenbruch wrote: Fedora's desktop is a lot prettier, though. If they would only use APT for RPM, I would be quite satisfied. ;) Would this work? :P $ yum info apt Unfortunately, they don't seem to emphasize it. Does APT even work with the official repositories? apt == yum deb == rpm $ sudo yum install apt ... Installed: apt.i386 0:0.5.15lorg3.2-10.fc7 $ sudo apt-get update You don't seem to have one or more of the needed GPG keys in your RPM database. Importing them now... Error importing GPG keys Get:1 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/updates/7/i386/ repomd.xml [1953B] Get:2 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/ repomd.xml [2145B] Get:3 http://rpm.livna.org 7/i386/ repomd.xml [2142B] Fetched 6240B in 1s (5052B/s) Get:1 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/updates/7/i386/ primary.xml [620kB] Get:2 http://rpm.livna.org 7/i386/ primary.xml [82.0kB] Get:3 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/updates/7/i386/ filelists.xml [2466kB] Get:4 http://rpm.livna.org 7/i386/ filelists.xml [63.3kB] Get:5 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/ primary.xml [2670kB] Get:6 http://download.fedora.redhat.com fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/ filelists.xml [6462kB] Fetched 12.4MB in 27s (444kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [LUAU] Dealing with the Bleeding Edge
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 22:22 -1000, Peter Besenbruch wrote: Unfortunately, they don't seem to emphasize it. Does APT even work with the official repositories? Julian Yap wrote: apt == yum deb == rpm $ sudo yum install apt ... Installed: apt.i386 0:0.5.15lorg3.2-10.fc7 $ sudo apt-get update I will give it a whirl tomorrow. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
[LUAU] Dealing with the Bleeding Edge
I made a mistake the other day by purchasing a motherboard with a brand new chipset (released in June). It is a Biostar TForce TF7025-M2. It is a socket AM2 board with an Nvidia 630a chipset, and integrated Nvidia 7025 graphics. It cames with Realtek NIC and some generic, built in sound. I like it for its support for 4 SATA devices, lots of USB ports, along with PS2 keyboard and mouse ports. It also accepts 4 gig. of RAM in 4 slots. I already had Debian installed, running a 2.6.21 kernel and Nvidia graphics, and decided to let it handle things. It didn't. It could only see one hard drive. The nv graphics driver wouldn't work, either. Networking worked, but streaming from the machine was erratic - lots of dropouts, regardless of the machine connecting to it. Grabbing a 2.6.22 kernel from sidux.com brought the second hard drive back, but network performance remained bad. For fun, I tried booting other distros. Ubuntu Feisty and PCLOS 2007 would boot, but failed to mount the very conventional, PATA DVD burner. Both dropped into a busybox shell within seconds of booting. Fedora 7's installer actually saw all the drives, so I decided, what the heck, and tried it. Everything worked, except the networking. It still had the same trouble. LSPCI has more occurrences of the word unknown than I would like (but that was true of Debian, as well). Eventually, I stuck in a Linksys NIC, and my problems went away. The last Fedora I had dealt with was version 5. 7 looks a lot prettier. Debian works better with a Sidux kernel than Fedora; Samba appears to work with fewer issues. Fedora's desktop is a lot prettier, though. If they would only use APT for RPM, I would be quite satisfied. ;) I suspect that six months from now Linux support will be a lot better. -- Hawaiian Astronomical Society: http://www.hawastsoc.org HAS Deepsky Atlas: http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
