[Nottingham] New Fedora install

[Darren Fuller]

Written using Thunderbird on Fedore Core 2.
Free from additives, preservatives, "e" numbers and annoying
little people who insist on buggering up perfectly good
computers with MS Windows.

Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/



lists at voila.fr wrote:

>All,
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>Just got Fedora Core 2 up and running. Only had to configure the monitor by hand so I'm impressed with the install. I like the default Desktop Environment as well, clean, fast and easy to use.
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>But I've some questions for those Fedora experts on the list - I shall RTFMs but wanted advice first.
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>Can one mix using yum and apt? Or should I just stick with yum?
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>In yum.conf I've only got one server :
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>http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
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I'd stick with yum personally, but that's my preference.  With regards 
to your config file you can always try out the Fedora Tracker project 
(http://www.fedoratracker.org/), there is even one there for Mozilla :)

>How do I get others to choose from? (is there netselect for yum like there is for apt)
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>up2date has found several packages that need updating - can this be trusted? Should I do one at a time?
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I found it took several attempts to get all the updates installed after 
a clean install but it's worth it to keep on top of security issues, 
eventually I broke the downloads into smaller groups of files at any one 
time.

>Installing new software (like Firefox or OpenOffice) thats in testing - any experiences? Does one have to do the equivalent to a dist-upgrade?
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I installed firefox and thunderbird before anything else and have had no 
problems with either of them.

>Finally up2date recommends a newer kernel. I've had troubles in the past with NVidia and installing another kernel - recommendations / nightmares / results.
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The newer 2.6.8-1 kernel has a couple of bugs in it, one of which will 
prevent you from burning CD's as a normal user but you can still run it 
as root which I'm not keen on doing.  There is also a problem with 
Kudzu, there should be an update to download with all the others but in 
my experience if I need to use my scanner I need to unplug the USB cable 
and then put it back in again before it will enable me to scan as a 
normal user.

Other than that I've found Fedora to be a very stable and usable distro, 
I was using Mandrake before and it is really a shock the amount of 
things is just does for you.  One such thing was my USB flash drive, I 
use to just plug it in and use it, with Fedora I had to write the entry 
into the /etc/fstab file myself, which personally I think is great as 
I'm getting to find out more about Linux without throwing myself in at 
the deep end with a distro like Debian.

Have fun

>Regards,
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>Matt
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