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  1. Sabayon Linux

    in Other Linux and Unix Distributions

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    Solaris 10 "roxxx0x0x0" as a server :thumbs:

     

    So does RHEL/Debian/FreeBSD, all the other crap can stay home on the desktop/laptop...... B)

     

    I used RR(pre-saby) like a year ago or longer, it was decent then. I just get tired of all the 500+ distros that are .000001% change from an up stream distro but eh, whatever. :P

  7. Thinking of trying Ubuntu?

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    Alright, I tried Ubuntu for about the last 3 weeks, two box's laptop and one desktop. It's ok, seems a little slower response wise that FC6. Other than the same sudo complaints others have it "would" make a nice desktop, however both of my box's programs crashed left and right, I couldn't believe how many times the bug buddy stepped up to the plate. I've ran/tested Ubuntu before, but WOW, the bugs over took me, I started filling some, but after last night when nothing but BUG BUG BUG flashed on my screen for 5 minutes with all types, I happyily went back to Fedora :)

     

    YMMV, but 2, thats 1, 2 Box's bugged all over the place, thats good enough for me to say bai bai....

  10. Fedora Core 6 (Zod)

    in Everything Linux

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    It's funny, he says you have to build it yourself, yet Mandy have one, and nobody has said anything against this. Of course, it's probably in plf-nonfree which kind of covers that area. Dag probably has a problem because he might be seen as providing it on his site.

     

     

    Right, some people care more about certain laws than others and would rather play it safe. ;)

  11. Fedora Core 6 (Zod)

    in Everything Linux

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    Using Fedora makes me realise why I like Mandriva so much. I have all I need in the repo's. Even Fedora doesn't have everything. win32-codecs for one, no rpm install, you have to use tarball. OK, no great problem.

     

    I wanted joomla the other day, nope doesn't exist in Fedora or even the livna/freshrpms repositories. Yet it exists in Mandriva's! :P

     

    Don't get me wrong, I like Fedora, but I like the availability of being able to install packages easily, regardless of whether it's urpmi/yum/pacman or whatever. I only want to go to source/tarballs when it's really necessary.

     

    For me, I think I have a good classification. Fedora for work, Mandriva for home.

     

    Sure Fedora must have a PLF source to added into the repo?

     

    http://dag.wieers.com/packages/w32codec/

     

    http://dag.wieers.com/packages/w32codec/READTHIS

  12. Fedora Core 6 (Zod)

    in Everything Linux

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    Okay, I have Fedora Core 6 running since two weeks on one of my Sempron rigs and I like the distro. FC5 was a bit of a nightmare for me with broken packages and isos that refused to install (although they worked before!) and downloads that were always corrupted (15 CDs lost). But FC6 runs smoothly, no updates that break anything and pup finally works as expected. The only thing I really miss is the new icon theme, but that still needs some work (There are some consistency and design problems. I told Diana Fong already about the isues and they work on that).

     

    New icons

     

    $ su -c "yum --enablerepo=development install echo-icon-theme"

     

    Newer artwork:

     

    $ su -c "yum --enablerepo=development update redhat-artwork fedora-logos"

  13. Why can't I perform chroot to mandriva from ubuntu

    in Other Linux and Unix Distributions

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    Hello

     

    I want to perform chroot to mandriva from ubuntu to check the wine version for this topic:

    https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=36804

     

    But I get permission denied while I'm in root:

    $ sudo su
root@nadav-desktop:/# chroot /media/hda
hda1/ hda5/ hda7/
root@nadav-desktop:/# chroot /media/hda5
chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Permission denied
root@nadav-desktop:/# ls /media/hda5/bin/bas
basename  bash	  bash3

     

    What is the problem?

     

    How It's possibility to block the root?

     

    Try this:

    $ sudo ln -sf bash /bin/sh
$ sudo chroot FOO
$ sudo ln -sf dash /bin/sh

  14. Fedora Core 6 (Zod)

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    My point is one of principle. (as usual) I maintain that I should be able to get my laptop running via wireless. All I need is ndiswrapper on the disk. Mandriva is one that does this. That's right, Mandriva allows me to configure my wireless without being on-line. I am being harsh. But, I find this rather fundamental. I do not think that Mandriva is the only distro that I can get working without a net connection.

     

    Now one could complain that any wireless device using ndiswrapper should be shunned. On principle I might agree. But I already own my laptop and do not have the funds to toss it and get another.

     

    This basically sums up what I said already

     

     

    http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/62413.html

  16. Fedora Core 6 (Zod)

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    Well, neither BCMWXX would work, nor ndiswrapper. (I found every Fedora howto on the net for both.) I actually got a signal working with the newer driver, after using wfcutter, but it still would not connect to my router. Extremely sad. A laptop without wireless is really not a good thing.

     

    You might try atrpms

     

    http://atrpms.net/dist/fc6/

     

    # vi /etc/yum.repos.d/.atrpms.repo

     

    [atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0

     

    # yum --enablerepo=atrpms install ndiswrapper

     

    That should get the bits you need. Keep in mind I don't use ndiswrapper, but I use 3945 from atrpms and keep in disabled by default and just grab the wireless stuff.

  19. Fedora Core 6 (Zod)

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    My point is one of principle. (as usual) I maintain that I should be able to get my laptop running via wireless. All I need is ndiswrapper on the disk. Mandriva is one that does this. That's right, Mandriva allows me to configure my wireless without being on-line. I am being harsh. But, I find this rather fundamental. I do not think that Mandriva is the only distro that I can get working without a net connection.

     

    Now one could complain that any wireless device using ndiswrapper should be shunned. On principle I might agree. But I already own my laptop and do not have the funds to toss it and get another.

     

    In the same token, Fedora's point is one of principle. If its closed, you wont find it in Fedora. Simple eh?

     

    If your principle and Fedora's principle don't meet, then you simply use another distro :)

  21. Review: Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft

    in Other Linux and Unix Distributions

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    Eft seemed it bit slow on two box's I installed it on. The part about Security bothers me too. I think artics point about firewall/iptables is FC for example during firstboot lets you set things.

     

    e.g.

    # cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables
# Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel
# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0]
-A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
COMMIT

     

    Ubuntu, nothing is set, heck openssh isn't even installed......

     

    No SELinux, I like that too :)

    Xen is a pita to install on Ubuntu.

    No multilib for x64 users.

     

    Speaking of x64 users, Ubuntu 64 doesn't even boot on my Core 2 Duo so um.... negitve points for that one.

  22. Fedora Core 6 (Zod)

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    Fedora is still a semi-flop!

    In order to get my laptop working, I must hook up via ethernet to get ndiswrapper. But this time, the default kernel is i386, and yum wishes to use i686 rpm's, as well it should. And my box won't let got of the i386 kernel! What a joke!!! :wall:

     

     

    Yup, there was a kernel bug in the install were you could end up with i3/586 instead of 686. Easy fix.

     

    # rpm -e kernel && yum install kernel

     

    If the ndiswarppr might have already d/l the kernel. You can check here:

    /var/cache/yum/core/packages/

     

    Then just run:

     

    # rpm -Uhv --replacepkgs --replacefiles kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686.rpm

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