have everything working except 3D compositing. I even fixed the messed up
partition table (using System Rescue CD). I am quite proud of myself. I had
lost hope of getting my photos back. I was very careful not to do anything
to that partition, even trying to mount it.
As for Fedora, I am having a hard time getting used to su - instead of sudo
(I should say getting re-used to it). I did install sudo so that I could
open a file manager as root without having to log out and back in. It is
working fine. I got multimedia working and have all of my main programmes. A
few are missing, but I can live without them.
KDE in Fedora isn't quite as developed. For example in Kubuntu I have the
option of installing a plasma that gives a fancy panel or fancy tasks. This
isn't in Fedora's repositories. It is nice because I don't have to run AWN
or even have compositing enabled, That is my next job.
I tried to compile the NV driver from source, but it would not compile
because my gcc is different from the one needed. However, if I change gcc it
will likely cause more problems as it is used to compile other programmes
such as vbox. So how important is compositing for new?
I am finding some peculiar problems with permissions. For example I have
downloaded several flvs for viewing off line. All were done at once using
the same programme, saved to the same folder and some will allow you to move
them and some won't. I also encountered this when trying to move jpgs off
another drive. Some will copy and some won't.
I'll keep playing with it and see if it grows on me.
Roy
Roy
2009/11/18 Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:41:54PM -0500, Roy wrote:
> > I use Ubuntu 9.10 as my main distribution. I have 6 distributions plus
> > Windows currently install spread across three drives. Obviously I
> > multi-boot. I use a separate grub for each drive. It works well unless a
> > distribution crosses me up which happened with openSuSE 11.2 recently
> which
> > did not write grub where I asked it to. Fedora at least put grub where I
> > wanted and nicely allowed me to choose boot order which impressed me.
>
> Well, slashdot readers have no doubt learned that the fellow who
> develops package kit, who I've never considered a particularly nice
> fella, nor one who cares about the users, has new thing--non-root users,
> without a password, can install software. Un freaken believable....
>
> Even Rahul and Adam don't seem that adverse to it, which is a bit of a
> shock. It's worse than Windows actually.
>
> >
> > So my verdict thus far is that Fedora is a) not as user friendly as it
> could
> > be and b) not for casual users. Both of these things are not news to me.
> I
> > had hoped they would move from backward thinking. By backward I mean
> circa
> > 1999 when I started Linux. So much has happened since then. You need to
> jump
> > through hoops to get not only the bells and whistles but to get a basic
> > operational system that plays youtube.
>
> Heh, errm, see that xkcd that I'm sure I've posted somewhere.
> Again, much of this is not Fedora's fault (but I'm in shock over this
> install package thing, especially the attitude of the folks supporting
> it.
> >
> >
> > What I am looking forward to is using Fedora and learning to like RPM.
> That
> > will be something if I can manage it.
>
> Apt is probably better, actually. :)
>
> >
> > I have not been using it. It has all of my multimedia files and and
> holiday
> > photos on it. The only one that used that drive was openSuSE which wrote
> to
> > the MBR of that drive, something that I did not ask it to do. Hmmm.
> >
>
> They, at least the desktop distributions, seem to be getting more
> Windows like all the time.
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
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>
> Spike: Whatcha doin', love?
> Drusilla: I'm naming the stars.
> Spike: You can't see the stars, love. That's the ceiling. Also
> it's day.
> Drusilla: No, I can see them. But I've named them all the same
> name, and there's terrible confusion.
>
>
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