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/
> 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--
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