Installation options
by Paul Lemmons
I have been reading this list and there seems to be a number of options
for installing Fedora 7 (boy it is hard not to type FC7). I see the
normal boot from DVD and upgrade option with several variants. What I am
not seeing and really thought I would is the ability to upgrade via yum.
I went from FC5 to FC6 via yum on a number of machines and even though
it was not officially supported it still worked wonderfully. Just
curious, is this an option with F7?
17 years
Please help me choose one version of Fedora for my computer
by Qiang
Few days ago, I got one new computer.
Next, it is the specs of the machine:
*--------------------------------------------------*
CPU: Intel Core(TM)2 Duo Processor
Mainboard: ASUS P5GZ-MX
Memory: Kingston DDR2 SDRAM 1024MB
Harddisk: Seagate SATA 250GB
*--------------------------------------------------*
I wonder which version of Fedora is suitable to my machine,
i386 version, or x86_64 version.
I am not clear about the cpu.
Is it 64-bit cpu or 32-bit cpu?
Well,
please help me choose one version between i386 version and x86_64 version.
17 years
Better window management strategies?
by Joe Smith
How do you folks manage your working windows? I find that working on a
standard WIMP desktop is a distracting battle of locating and arranging
in the needed windows. The current tools, specifically in the default
Fedora Gnome desktop are not working well for me, but maybe I've missed
something.
Here's what I've tried:
* Focus follows mouse
I can't stand "click to focus", primarily because it's disruptive to
move a window to the top for something simple and then to restore the
z-order I had before.
Using "focus follows mouse" solves that problem, but I'm left with the
converse problem: I often have problems finding the window I need and
bringing it to the top when necessary.
Here's what I've tried for that:
1. Alt-tab to cyle through windows. This is the exact functionality I
need, but having to access it through the keyboard, with a rather
awkward key chord is not convenient enough. I want something that will
work with the mouse.
2. The window-selector panel menu. Better, but it's distracting to use
the panel here: it's too far from my working windows and it's
complicated to locate the correct button on the panel and select the
right window given only their titles.
3. Application window menus: these would be ok, except they don't work
with Nautilus under "focus follows mouse" (Mozilla Seamonkey and
OpenOffice are the two big ones I use, that don't work).
What might help:
* a window menu built-in to the title bar
* a method to "restore the previous order", or at least to send the
top window down.
Other suggestions? What obvious solution have I missed?
<Joe
17 years
Re: F7 Mirrors Open?
by qrscy1985
Fedora 7 DVD ISO
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/fedora...7-i386-DVD.iso
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/fedora...86/iso/SHA1SUM
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Hash: SHA1
96b13dbbc9f3bc569ddad9745f64b9cdb43ea9ae F-7-i386-DVD.iso
fc2e7ab25550afb78608c7f432d0af6c6a7b2105 F-7-i386-rescuecd.iso
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Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)
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qrscy1985
2007-05-31
17 years
Re: I love IP Tables....
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
Ric Moore <wayward4now(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 20:10 -0700, jdow wrote:
>> Another subject schools seem not to touch is "scam" education. Teach the
>> > kids how pyramid, pigeon drop, and other scams work so that when they
>> > see it they are innoculated against it.
>>
>
> I'd give anything to remember the author of the SciFi short story "The
> Primary Education of the Carmaloi<sp?>" Same thing, teach 'em young the
> basic tricks of grifting at an early age, plus running for public office
> (smear campaigns, stealing ballots, etc), along with advanced calculus,
> astral navigation and primary construction technique using local at hand
> materials ...all by the 2nd grade. I'd give anything to find that one
> again!! Ric
Google is good for looking up things besides obscure Linux technical trivia!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22The+Primary+Education+of+the+Cami...
No idea whether that particular story is included in any of his books:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index%3Dbooks-uk%26...
(you're welcome)
As for the thread, I think we've beat that dead horse long enough.
Cheers,
Dave
--
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-- Ambrose Bierce
17 years
udev/hotplug?
by Ashley M. Kirchner
If I don't have anything that's either hotpluggable, or going to be
hotplugged on a machine, is there any reason why I should have udev
running? How can I shut it off? (I can't remove it because of all the
dependencies with other stuff.)
--
W | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature.
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17 years
Fedora core archive search with google?
by Paul Erickson
Sometime back someone posted a method for searching the archives with
google, but I have
not been able to find it. Can someone help me out with the syntax?
Thanks in advance.
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"Those who hear not the music, think the dancers mad."
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” - Thomas Mann
"That state which separates it's warriors from it's scholars will have it's thinking done by cowards and fighting done by fools" - Thucydides - The Pelopenisia
"The Malice of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous." - Churchill
17 years
From Rawhide to Moonshine
by Oliver Ruebenacker
Dear friends,
I am sure some one has asked this before, but I can not find it: If
I am on F6.93 Rawhide with regular updates and want to shift to F7
Moonshine, what do I need to do? Will it update automatically into the
release version, or will I continue on Rawhide if I do not interfere
with the updates? If I want to end up with the F7 Moonshine release
version, do I need to: (a) do nothing, let the updater do its job (b)
modify the updater (c) boot from an install disk (d) take some other
action. Thanks!
Take care
Oliver
--
Oliver Ruebenacker, Post-Doc Researcher
Theoretical Biological Physics and Soft Statistical Mechanics
Cell Biology at UConn Health Center and Physics at Harvard
http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~oliver/
17 years
CD's?
by Brian Millett
So, where are the CD's?
--
Brian Millett - [ Sheridan, "A Spider in the Web"]
"For the past six years, there have been rumors about a...rogue agency
operating deep inside Earth Gov. A dirty tricks squad dealing in black
projects and Star Chamber justice. It took me over three years just to
get the name: Bureau 13. And the man who gave me that name died soon
after. I am convinced they exist and that they are behind this
incident."
17 years