[Gllug] Fedora

[Fasih Rehman]

John Hearns wrote:
> 
> If you are already using RH 9 and have a high bandwidth connection, you
> can upgrade 'in situ'.
> 
Since I have Redhat 9 on the box I thought I would go for this option, 
only to find that the default installer + kernel setup does not support 
firewire devices. So I resorted to pulling the first 2 iso images, and 
then installing the RPMs by hand. This worked amazingly well, though did 
take some time. Once I had the core packages installed I just used yum 
as suggested by other people.

Had a few issues with X which seemed to effect MPlayer and Zapping, 
however it seems I was not the only one with these problem, came a cross 
this late last week http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/. My X and Alsa problem 
where resolved in no time.

However it would seem you have to recompile the kernel to get PPTP/VPN 
support to work correctly, I tried what was suggested at 
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-fedora.phtml

Still had some symbol errors. So for the time being I'm happy to route 
through my debian box. Not a priority as long as my debian box is there.

The repositories at livna and freshrpms have been great, pulling 
packages debian style makes Redhat good again. Will probably stick with 
debian for servers though. Fedora over time will offer a good desktop 
solution, and I do see people's point about it being a little less 
polished than RH9, but to those people I say it's called called Fedora 
1, and not Redhat 10 for this precise reason.


Fasih


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