without (K)ubuntu. I know everything works perfectly there, but it is fun to
play with something different. I still try to login with my root password
which is the same in all distributions. My user password changes, but I am
so used to doing it with one password after years of Ubuntu practice.
There are differences. Some are subtle and others are very different.
Permissions is one. With Ubuntu I need only provide a password once each
session. It stays active if I close the file manager. In Fedora I need to
give it more thought which isn't necessarily a bad thing. It just takes
practice. I am a creature of habit. Most things are second nature and I
don't even have to think before doing them.
I'll look at SELinux later. Thanks again.
Roy
2009/11/20 Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:31:54PM -0500, Roy wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> You can certainly use sudo on Fedora if you wish, pretty much the same
> way you do on Ubuntu. Simply add the user to /etc/sudoers. for example
>
> (BE VERY CAREFUL--if you leave out one > you will lose /etc/sudoers)
>
> Assuming your user name was roy
>
> echo 'roy ALL=(ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers
>
> (Or manually add the line at the end of the file.)
>
> After that, it should work.
>
> By the way, for those who have heard about the whole can install
> packages without a password fiasco, it's been fixed. Basically, what
> happened, two developers who might be described as arrogant, decided it
> would be a good idea. What could possibly go wrong? This ONLY affected
> he GUI package manager, which is how it slipped under the radar--the
> people who might have said, errm, what are you doing? all use yum, so no
> one noticed till a bug was filed. It then made it onto slashdot and all
> fury broke loose. At any rate, it's been fixed.
>
> >
> > 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 don't use KDE, so can't be of any aid there.
>
> >
> > 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?
>
> You might want to poke around the links I gave earlier, the rpmfusion
> one for NVidia--and possibly the forum. I haven't been paying much
> attention since my one machine with an NVidia card is on CentOS.
>
> > 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.
> >
> Could this be an SELINUX issue? How do you have it set? (You can see
> by viewing the file /etc/sysconfig/selinux.)
>
>
> > I'll keep playing with it and see if it grows on me.
>
> There really isn't, in many ways, that much difference. Yes, the
> package manager is different, but the basic concept is similar--a
> desktop oriented machine that aims, at least in theory, to make things
> simpler for the user. The upside of Fedora is that it usually has newer
> versions of everything--which can also be a downside. :)
>
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
> PGP keyID EB3467D6
> ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
>
> Xander: I have my pride. Okay, so I don't have a *lot* of my pride,
> but I have enough so that I can't do this.
>
>
>
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