Posts by chiphart

...if you have to run IE under Linux - and, sadly, sometimes you do - go to <a href="http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index-en.html">IEs4Linux</a>. A very nice install tool for putting IE 5.0, 5.5, or 6.5 on...

FWIW, if you want a good Fedora install checklist, this guy did a good one. It includes two nice links to the RPM repository issue. I've followed ~90% of what's in here and the instructions are both helpful and simple.

Quote: Originally Posted by seablade Personally Chipart, my experience with built in upgrades for distros like RedHat(I have not tried Fedora's so I am referring to the original RedHat distros here) or Suse and the like...

Quote: Originally Posted by mmarkin Chiphart, we're comparing apples to oranges here. With Debian and Gentoo, if you don't have the package manager, you'll never have the system itself I realize that. But...

Quote: Originally Posted by seablade Although I dont udnerstand you commenting about legal issues when dealing with RPM, maybe I missed something but that is one area that has had NO legal issues. I was...

Quote: Originally Posted by seablade Uh Chipart the RPM problems I refer to have to do with manual install of RPMs. I'm curious: to what package are you referring? WHEN was this? Obviously, you have to trust...

Quote: Originally Posted by bigtrouble77 It's hard to get to the point of installing apt when you get kernel panics during the install. What, really, makes that distro-specific? Is it the 2.4 kernel option...

Quote: Originally Posted by seablade There are more repositories out there for APT than YUM. I am not aware of a single repository-of-note that doesn't offer both (not that it matters, as the distinction...

A couple quick comments: 1) I don't understand why a bunch of Linux users can somehow be intimidated by using apt OR yum in Fedora. It takes 2 seconds to set up, there are numerous well-written tutorials, complete with repositories,...

My good ol' Sager 5600D bit the dust in a blaze of motherboard fury not too long ago and I've moved on to a 5720. However, many of the parts and pieces of this machine are still quite useable and should come in handy for...