re: Fedora needs to go on a diet
by The DJ
I actually really like Fedora as is. I hate having to
find stuff on Fed-extras and other sites/repos,
especially when I have to figure out what the cryptic
name these packages are given, actually does. They're
ok for true extras, but for the already built-in
functions, they should remain.
Also, as was said before, as time passes hds are
bigger and bigger and it really doesn't matter
anymore. I saw a 300 GB hd the other day for only
$250. The cheapest computer at Best Buy had a 40 GB
hd. Plus, as long as we continue to give people the
ability to pick/choose applications (as is now), they
can choose more or less.
Finally, I am currently running FC3 on 2 legacy
computers and FC1 on one of them. They are 400-600Mhz
machines with 10 GB max. None of them has over 128 Mb
of ram. Doesn't matter, they all run perfectly fine!
I mean, they run at ~Win 98 speeds - Openoffice can
take on the order of two minutes to load, but once
it's running it runs great. Frankly, with how well FC
runs on these legacy machines, I can't wait to install
it on a nice new computer. (Just need some $$$ first)
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19 years, 2 months
inotify kernel for FC3
by Ben Konrath
Hi,
I just made an inotify enabled kernel for FC3. To install it, add
something like this to your /etc/yum.conf:
[inotify]
name=inotify
baseurl=http://www.bagu.org/inotify
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0
And then run:
yum --enablerepo=inotify install kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.766.inotify.0.19_FC3.i686
Enjoy, Ben
19 years, 2 months
rawhide report: 20050220 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
anaconda-10.2.0.20-1
--------------------
* Sat Feb 19 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> - 10.2.0.20-1
- Pull in translations
- s390 linuxrc silence nonexistant group warnings (karsten)
- ppc mac autopartitioning and G5 boot.iso (#121266) and (#149081)
gaim-1:1.1.3-2
--------------
* Fri Feb 18 2005 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 1:1.1.3-2
- 1.1.3 including two security fixes
CAN-2005-0472 Client freezes when receiving certain invalid messages
CAN-2005-0473 Client crashes when receiving specific malformed HTML
* Fri Jan 28 2005 Florian La Roche <laroche(a)redhat.com>
- rebuild
* Thu Jan 20 2005 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 1:1.1.2-1
- 1.1.2 with more bugfixes
kbd-1.12-4
----------
* Sat Feb 19 2005 Miloslav Trmac <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 1.12-4
- Don't ship a patch backup file
- Mention in setfont.8 that 512-glyph fonts reduce the number of available
colors (#140935, patch by Dmitry Butskoj)
- Remove "Meta_acute" from German keymaps (#143124)
- Make the %triggerun script condition more precise, ignore failure of the
script
kernel-2.6.10-1.1148_FC4
------------------------
policycoreutils-1.21.18-1
-------------------------
* Sat Feb 19 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.21.18-1
- Update to latest from NSA
* Changed load_policy to fall back to the original policy upon
an error from sepol_genusers().
* Thu Feb 17 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.21.17-2
- Only restorecon on ext[23], reiser and xfs
rpmdb-fedora-1:4-0.20050220
---------------------------
xen-2-20050219
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* Sat Feb 19 2005 Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com> 2-20050219
- fix more compile warnings
- fix the fwrite return check
* Fri Feb 18 2005 Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com> 2-20050218
- upgrade to last night's Xen snapshot
- a kernel upgrade is needed to run this Xen, the hypervisor
interface changed slightly
- comment out unused debugging function in plan9 domain builder
that was giving compile errors with -Werror
19 years, 2 months
VPN Server features
by Nick Thorley
Could I ask for or get everyones opinion that VPN features are required
in core 4. I think it is the one major function that is missing from
the software is a good vpn server that can be used as a gateway into
remote networks and although connections from linux clients would be
best - it would be possible to connect to it from windows.
19 years, 2 months
Fedora Core 4 test 1 freeze ahead
by Elliot Lee
Yes, it's that time again...
Although the FC4 schedule hasn't been finalized yet, we do need to try to
stick to the preliminary one until it's decided otherwise. Fedora Core 4
test 1 is currently slated to come out on February 21st, which means that
I would fall in love with you all over again if you did your part to make
sure the tree was installable and free of broken dependencies & conflicts
by Valentine's Day (Monday, February 14th).
The goal for FC4test1 is to "get something out there" - it may not be
fully baked, but it does need to pass basic sanity tests, be able to
install and avoid killing people's systems. One of the ways non-developers
can help is by trying to install from rawhide and yelling loudly about any
showstopper (i.e. hard disk-destroying) problems.
I'm not yet sure whether we'll have PowerPC included - it would help to
have someone from that team give a summary of the status of rawhide on
that arch.
Cheers,
-- Elliot
19 years, 2 months
rpm -i bla.i?86.rpm problems
by Erwin Rol
Hey all,
I tried rebuilding rpmdb-fedora from the source rpm and noticed a
problem (which could certainly be because i did something wrong :-). For
all rpm's in my directory of rpms (the ones i want in the db) that have
more than one arch (for example glibc , i386 and glibc i686) i get an
error like:
error: error reading from file glibc-2.3.4-10.i686.rpm
Now i changed the spec file to only include i386 and noarch rpms and it
works fine.
I tried with the following quick test to reproduce the effect:
[root@drake RPMS]# rpm -i --justdb --force glibc-2.3.4-10.i386.rpm glibc-2.3.4-10.i686.rpm
error: error reading from file glibc-2.3.4-10.i686.rpm
[root@drake RPMS]# rpm -i --justdb --force glibc-2.3.4-10.i686.rpm glibc-2.3.4-10.i386.rpm
error: error reading from file glibc-2.3.4-10.i386.rpm
As you can see it complains about the second rpm it finds that just
differs in arch. The files are all 100% correct, since i can install
them one by one, just not in one go.
This is on a chrooted minimal install with the latests (rsync'ed a few
hours ago) rpms from the development directory.
Is this expected behavior ?
- Erwin
19 years, 2 months
Hald hangs my system, totally
by Ralph Blach
I am having problems with hald hanging my system
When I run it, my system totally hangs up,
the keyboad get disconnected, the mouse wont move, and when I reboot,
there is nothing in the error logs.
I cannot ctl-alt-backspace to get out of x and I cannot ping or ssh into
the system. It seems to be totally hung. My son, who is running fedora
also is seeing the same behavior.
Here my system setup
/proc/version
Linux version 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 (bhcompile(a)bugs.build.redhat.com) (gcc
version 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)) #1 Wed Feb 2 00:14:23 EST 2005
hal-0.4.7-1.FC3
hal-cups-utils-0.5.2-8dbus-python-0.22-10.FC3.2
dbus-devel-0.22-10.FC3.2
dbus-glib-0.22-10.FC3.2
dbus-x11-0.22-10.FC3.2
dbus-0.22-10.FC3.2
Any ideas..
Chip
19 years, 2 months
shutdown items not showing
by The DJ
Hello,
I'm using FC3 and when I shut down, the screen just
goes blank until the end of the process when it comes
back on for a second right before hda is turned off.
With FC1 and 2 I used to be able to see the processes
taking place. In addition to being a good debugging
tool and a good learning experience, it also
"entertained" me. I didn't mind shutting down my
Linux computer because I could SEE what it was
actually doing. With my Windows computer, however,
it's just stuck on a shutdown screen and I don't know
if it's frozen or working.
Can you please bring this feature back in FC4?
Thanks,
Eric
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19 years, 2 months
sqlite3 in CVS ?
by Erwin Rol
Hey all,
I was wondering where I could find sqlite3 in CVS. I checked out the CVS
trees from ":pserver:anonymous@cvs.fedora.redhat.com:/cvs/dist" but it
doesn't seem to be in the "devel" directory.
Did I miss it somehow ?
TIA,
Erwin
19 years, 2 months