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DrEntropy

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Had Ubuntu on this laptop for months, decided to allow it to "update/upgrade" to 11.04... JUNK!!!

Scraped it clean and loaded Fedora 14. Now I'm back in my comfort zone. :smile:
 
I wear a 7 1/2, myself.
 
I think he just inferred that Doc has a big head......... :devilgrin:
 
14? that is so yesterday. :wink: Gotta say I test drove Gnome 3 and didn't like the interface at all. Unless they are going to implement a multi-touch interface like Honeycomb, that would be something I'd like to get on my tablet.
 
DrEntropy said:
Had Ubuntu on this laptop for months, decided to allow it to "update/upgrade" to 11.04... JUNK!!!

Scraped it clean and loaded Fedora 14. Now I'm back in my comfort zone. :smile:
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I had endless problems with Ubuntu. Network connection, remote printing, and "not quite ready for prime time" updates.

Switched to Fedora 13 last summer; no headaches yet at all.

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Not sure I'm going to upgrade to Fedora 14. What are the advantages Doc?

T.
 
Hi Tom,
You could burn a live CD of Fedora 14 (or 15 for that matter) and give it a test spin without having to monkey with your system as it is.
 
Hi Greg. The live CD is what got me going with Ubuntu. Ran great from the CD, but had several features "missing" unless you actually installed it. The features missing were networking, IP, printing, and a few other gizmos.

I booted the Cd and liked Ubuntu at first (snappy little bongo drums at start up - priorities!), but when I actually installed it, I found out why those features were missing. A total nightmare to install and configure networking and network printing - if you don't already have networking! Use a different laptop, join a forum or two, ask questions, find out 100s of others have the same problems, finally get help and download *possible* fixes to a memory stick, then figure out how to install the bin files, etc. Lather, rinse, repeat. Turned out many common network cards were not supported, and/or the drivers weren't ready for public use yet.

Wonder if there are missing (basic) features on the Fedora 14/15 CDs?

Tom
 
NutmegCT said:
A total nightmare to install and configure networking and network printing - if you don't already have networking!
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I've been able to network with my Win7 computer. Honestly, I was about as lost on Windows as I was in Linux, but I got files to transfer after a half hour of tweaking. I haven't done any network printing yet though I could test it out. Linux says my printer is shared without any intervention from me. I'll try to print something from Win7 over to the printer on Linux later today and let you know. I have had some driver issues. Canon doesn't have any scanner drivers for Linux though I was able to find a driver on the internet that did work. It is slower than scanning in Windows using the same physical scanner and I don't think the color rendition is quite as good as windows. I haven't calibrated my monitor so I can't be too critical, unless there isn't a way for Linux to calibrate monitors. :wink:
 
I've an HP laser printer on a server, it was a no-brainer to get Fedora to access it. Google the proceedure to log on as root so ya do't have to keep puttin' passwords in. And STOP SELinux and the firewalling (as long as you've ALREADY put a ~real~ firewall appliance in place).

...And SAMBA is your friend, fellas. :wink:
 
NutmegCT said:
DrEntropy said:
Had Ubuntu on this laptop for months, decided to allow it to "update/upgrade" to 11.04... JUNK!!!

Scraped it clean and loaded Fedora 14. Now I'm back in my comfort zone. :smile:
Click to expand...

I had endless problems with Ubuntu. Network connection, remote printing, and "not quite ready for prime time" updates.

Switched to Fedora 13 last summer; no headaches yet at all.

redhat.png


Not sure I'm going to upgrade to Fedora 14. What are the advantages Doc?

T.
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Biggest advantage for me is familiarity with Red Hat's file system conventions and system management apps.

CentOS is a more "nuts 'n bolts" distro but it wants a much higher level of hardware than the Acer Travelmate I put Fedora on. IMO, Fedora is a good workstation O/S. And it literally JUMPED onto my LAN once I assigned it an IP addy and told it what the firewall IP (gateway) was. Installing apps with YUM-EX is a no-brainer, too. It has FFox loaded in the GUI (Gnome) but I prefer Thunderbird as an e-mail client, it loads quickly and I can import all the 'stuff' from the main box easily. Other apps I prefer are: GIMP for photo editing/manipulation, Xine as a movie player. I'll likely scrap OpenOffice (in the original distro) for LibreOffice, the successor to OOffice. And we're ~forced~ to install Adobe Flash after the distro is installed due to licensing issues. But that's true with all Linux distro's and easily done with YUM...

It took less time to "trim out" the install than it did to load it. Though I ~hate~ the non-option of logging into the GUI as root. I'm a big boy, if I screw it up I have to FIX it. A couple quick gedits of the /etc/pam.d/*.* files and that becomes a non-issue, tho.
 
Lost I tell you, I'm LOST!
 
'sokay, Jim. So am I. :devilgrin:
 
DrEntropy said:
Installing apps with YUM-EX is a no-brainer, too.
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Hey Doc,
I had installed Yum-ex a while ago, does it deactivate KPackageKit? (I'm using KDE). When I run KPackageKit now I get an unknown error. Also, I can't seem to install Google Earth. I'm trying to use the 64bit version and one try told me I needed to uninstall Yum. That was a weird messgae to me cuz how do you install software without the installer?
 
Well, if WikiPedia can't figure out how to pronounce it, think I'll wait.

Fedora (pronounced /fɨˈdɔːrə/)
 
The correct pronunciation is buried in the song by Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music". Something 'bout a female deer or such.
 
GregW said:
An update for you Tom if you haven't heard. Support and updates for 13 ended on June 24th.

Fedora 13 End of Life
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Yep - I moved to F14 but couldn't get it to support wireless. Maybe didn't like my wireless card (Broadcom). But I tried F15 Live CD and found wireless working fine.

Been using F15 for about a week now. Only problem is that Gnome3 isn't fully supported on my laptop's video card (Intel 855 - no 3D), so I'm using G3 fallback mode. No problems so far. Thought about KDE or xfce (?) but will likely just keep G3 as it is.

Onward through the fog.
T.
 
YUM is a Gnome Project GUI AFAIK, not likely to be fully compatable with KDE. YUM-ex wouldn't install at all, methinks. If you really-really want to beat on it, download the source code and compile it manually.

THAT'S always a "learning experience"! :jester:
 
Sorry, I should have been more specific. Yum-ex has been working fine for me. I've installed several updates that it finds for me plus some extra programs I've sought out. The problem I'm having is with Google Earth. Seems other people have had installation issues with Earth on the Fedora Forum too.
 
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