[clug-talk] Fedora 5
Mitchell Brown
mbgb14 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 12:28:50 PDT 2006
I have checked out Kororaa -- very nice. I fell in love with it :)
I was like Dude this is so cool!
How do you install it?
Dapper Drake = Unbuntu
yes?
On 4/18/06, Darren L <xlr8me at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> *laugh*
>
> Did you check out Kororaa? Live XGL! It's installable via a simple
> shell script under dapper drake, I can't imagine that someone hasn't done
> the same for FC.
>
>
>
> On 4/18/06, Mitchell Brown <mbgb14 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hehe.
> > I want XGL soo bad.
> > I wish someone would put up a walkthrough for FC5.
> >
> > On 4/18/06, Darren L <xlr8me at gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > > Heheh...
> > >
> > > That's the problem with screenshots - they never really give you much
> > > more of an impression of how the system works beyond mere eye candy and
> > > layout.
> > >
> > > Of course, you could TECHNICALLY load anything that you wanted into
> > > any distro -- I was really tempted to load XGL on my ubuntu box just for
> > > the eye candy, but decided to save the cycles for more worthy tasks.
> > >
> > > That's what my powerbook is for anyways ;)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 4/18/06, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:
> > > >
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> > > > > First, they continue to use Gnome by default. Yes, I *could* put
> > > > in KDE, but
> > > > > I found in the past they had too many things geared to the gnome
> > > > desktop that
> > > > > finding them under KDE was a pain and they had to load all the
> > > > gnome
> > > > > libraries anyways. (can you tell I don't like Gnome much? lol ).
> > > >
> > > > I hear you. Gnome gets in my way more than windows does, which I
> > > > think
> > > > was intentional :)
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Second, I don't like the way Fedora, or Suse for that matter,
> > > > manage the
> > > > > config files. This is a highly subjective point though. Gentoo
> > > > is the
> > > > > distro that 'clicked' for me, so I prefer distros that have a
> > > > similar concept
> > > > > in terms of the config files (i.e. don't add unnecessary control
> > > > layers that
> > > > > overwrite the config files on a whim). When I make a change to
> > > > the config
> > > > > files, I don't want to have to search for a distro specific way to
> > > > safely add
> > > > > an entry to my hosts file (or whatever config file I'm dealing
> > > > with), that is
> > > > > not going to get overwritten the next time I reboot or use the GUI
> > > > config
> > > > > tool.
> > > >
> > > > Thats how I feel with Debian. The GUI tools in RH and SuSe do weird
> > > > things with the configs. Something that I can manage remotely over
> > > > ssh
> > > > is far nicer. That and I don't like reinstalling my OS everytime a
> > > > new
> > > > version comes out.
> > > > >
> > > > > But that's my own personal view. I'll likely try out Fedora 5 at
> > > > some point,
> > > > > just because I know I'll have to do some support on it... :)
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thats what I like about VMware. I can try different versions with
> > > > little hassle. If I don't like it, it is easy to delete.
> > > >
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