Over the last week I have done two clean installs of FC3 on my hush (Epia M10000).
The first time round I did an "everything" install just to check out what is new and the apps which I don't normally use. It took 70+ minutes and went smoothly.
Second time after breaking the system* I did my normal Gnome workstation install with a few development tools.
The machine is faster - boot time is shorter. Most stuff works really well.
*I broke the system trying to install lirc and DVB into udev. Hey this is the 21st century - what is a computer without a digital satellite card and remote. Especially in a living room home office.
Another problem is getting my Evolution 1.4 mail archives back into Evolution 2. There must be an easier way than one at a time from the old inbox.
I plugged my Logitec Pocket digital in and, although I get the camera dialogue box, can not import the photos on it to my HD. I knew that this was because it is an experimental driver.
To get VMware installed I had to jump through hoops to install the kernel source. OK this won't bug the average Joe but there are people who have been using a Linux desktop since 1997... Read: some of us have legacy apps...
I plugged a firewire DVD-R in and it just worked. No luck with a USB key on the other hand.
I still don't like Bluecurve and will have to grab some themes.
This one is a 8/10 (FC1 was 7/10) so things are moving along nicely. The devil is in the details. Rather than great swooping changes most apps seem to be at the stage of need a final polish.
Cheers
Tony Grant
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 07:55:46 +0100, tony tony@tgds.net wrote:
To get VMware installed I had to jump through hoops to install the kernel source. OK this won't bug the average Joe but there are people who have been using a Linux desktop since 1997... Read: some of us have legacy apps...
If you're running VMware 4.5.2 (which you should be on recent versions of Fedora with 2.6.x kernels) you do not need the kernel source to either install VMware or compile the VMware modules after installation. You *do* need to satisfy some extra steps for Fedora Core 3 because the VMware installer doesn't understand udev, which I hear will be addressed in VMware 5 (currently in beta).
-- jeremy
Le lundi 22 novembre 2004 à 01:48 -0600, Jeremy Rosengren a écrit :
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 07:55:46 +0100, tony tony@tgds.net wrote:
To get VMware installed I had to jump through hoops to install the kernel source. OK this won't bug the average Joe but there are people who have been using a Linux desktop since 1997... Read: some of us have legacy apps...
If you're running VMware 4.5.2 (which you should be on recent versions of Fedora with 2.6.x kernels) you do not need the kernel source to either install VMware or compile the VMware modules after installation. You *do* need to satisfy some extra steps for Fedora Core 3 because the VMware installer doesn't understand udev, which I hear will be addressed in VMware 5 (currently in beta).
In my post I said that I was running an Epia M10000. This is an unsupported CPU for VMware so I am stuck with 3.2.1. This is not really an issue - I use vmaware-any-any and VMware runs just fine.
Redhat has always had a thing with kernels, I don't know why. When I need to I will go back to running a kernel built from kernel.org source. Having a kernel source tree on hand is, well, handy...
Cheers
Tony Grant
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