IP, Linux and Me [modified]
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Hi all, I have been using Linux again after something like a six year break, I have been doing some serious work on it for university, writing documents in OpenOffice, writing some craplets and just generally getting familar with it again for my new job, the applications I will be working on run on Linux apparently. So I am killing two birds with one stone, and I gotta say Fedora Core 6 is sweet, I am having soooo much fun. The only thing that really bugs me is that on Fedora anything that isn't strictly GPL'ed is not included, so I have had to turn on ClearType fonts, mp3 playback and Flash player myself. No great big wow, but really a non trival task that the average induhvidual would never manage. This saddened me in a way, because I really feel that this would really stiffle the take up of linux, if a newbie user found that out of the box, it looked crap on an LCD, couldn't play music and couldn't look up "you tube". That newbie users is going to go off and pull down a cracked version of Windows XP on his P2P client of choice instead of figuring out Linux, which means everyone looses. However I had to say, I have installed all of that stuff and the Desktop Effects, I haven't booted into Windows XP for the last three days of pretty intense work. It christmas all over again ... -- modified at 19:39 Thursday 28th December, 2006
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Ray Kinsella wrote:
So I am killing two birds with one stone, and I gotta say Fedora Core 6 is sweet, I am having soooo much fun. The only thing that really bugs me is that on Fedora anything that isn't strictly GPL'ed is not included, so I have had to turn on ClearType fonts, mp3 playback and Flash player myself.
If you want a distribution that gives "proprietary" stuff out of the box, take a look at Linux Mint[^]. For professional work, my choice is CentOS[^] which is practically RHEL without the RH artwork, although at work we use OpenSUSE for development.
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Hi all, I have been using Linux again after something like a six year break, I have been doing some serious work on it for university, writing documents in OpenOffice, writing some craplets and just generally getting familar with it again for my new job, the applications I will be working on run on Linux apparently. So I am killing two birds with one stone, and I gotta say Fedora Core 6 is sweet, I am having soooo much fun. The only thing that really bugs me is that on Fedora anything that isn't strictly GPL'ed is not included, so I have had to turn on ClearType fonts, mp3 playback and Flash player myself. No great big wow, but really a non trival task that the average induhvidual would never manage. This saddened me in a way, because I really feel that this would really stiffle the take up of linux, if a newbie user found that out of the box, it looked crap on an LCD, couldn't play music and couldn't look up "you tube". That newbie users is going to go off and pull down a cracked version of Windows XP on his P2P client of choice instead of figuring out Linux, which means everyone looses. However I had to say, I have installed all of that stuff and the Desktop Effects, I haven't booted into Windows XP for the last three days of pretty intense work. It christmas all over again ... -- modified at 19:39 Thursday 28th December, 2006
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
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Hi Ray, I'm planning to have a dual boot with Fedora 6 & WinXp . I'll surely be needing your help. If you have any "Note"s to say about it,please do. :)
:Gong: 歡迎光臨 吐 西批 :Gong:
Just make sure you install WinXP first, then Fed6. I just burnt my fingers trying it the other way around.
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Hi all, I have been using Linux again after something like a six year break, I have been doing some serious work on it for university, writing documents in OpenOffice, writing some craplets and just generally getting familar with it again for my new job, the applications I will be working on run on Linux apparently. So I am killing two birds with one stone, and I gotta say Fedora Core 6 is sweet, I am having soooo much fun. The only thing that really bugs me is that on Fedora anything that isn't strictly GPL'ed is not included, so I have had to turn on ClearType fonts, mp3 playback and Flash player myself. No great big wow, but really a non trival task that the average induhvidual would never manage. This saddened me in a way, because I really feel that this would really stiffle the take up of linux, if a newbie user found that out of the box, it looked crap on an LCD, couldn't play music and couldn't look up "you tube". That newbie users is going to go off and pull down a cracked version of Windows XP on his P2P client of choice instead of figuring out Linux, which means everyone looses. However I had to say, I have installed all of that stuff and the Desktop Effects, I haven't booted into Windows XP for the last three days of pretty intense work. It christmas all over again ... -- modified at 19:39 Thursday 28th December, 2006
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
Ray Kinsella wrote:
the Desktop Effects
Nice, but pretty useless...
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Just make sure you install WinXP first, then Fed6. I just burnt my fingers trying it the other way around.
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Ray Kinsella wrote:
the Desktop Effects
Nice, but pretty useless...
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And Windows Aeroglass improves productivity how ? :-D
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Hi Ray, I'm planning to have a dual boot with Fedora 6 & WinXp . I'll surely be needing your help. If you have any "Note"s to say about it,please do. :)
:Gong: 歡迎光臨 吐 西批 :Gong:
Yeah, install Windows XP first is good advice. Will put something on my blog about it soon I think.
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
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Yeah, install Windows XP first is good advice. Will put something on my blog about it soon I think.
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
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Just make sure you install WinXP first, then Fed6. I just burnt my fingers trying it the other way around.
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And Windows Aeroglass improves productivity how ? :-D
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
It's meant to help you get in "flow", apparently that is when you look at your watch and go oh Shoot I missed lunch. Linux can do shine desktops too... http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/shots.xml[^] -- modified at 5:11 Friday 29th December, 2006
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And Windows Aeroglass improves productivity how ? :-D
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Ray Kinsella wrote:
And Windows Aeroglass improves productivity how ?
I didn't say that Aero is useful. It isn't, BTW.
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Hi all, I have been using Linux again after something like a six year break, I have been doing some serious work on it for university, writing documents in OpenOffice, writing some craplets and just generally getting familar with it again for my new job, the applications I will be working on run on Linux apparently. So I am killing two birds with one stone, and I gotta say Fedora Core 6 is sweet, I am having soooo much fun. The only thing that really bugs me is that on Fedora anything that isn't strictly GPL'ed is not included, so I have had to turn on ClearType fonts, mp3 playback and Flash player myself. No great big wow, but really a non trival task that the average induhvidual would never manage. This saddened me in a way, because I really feel that this would really stiffle the take up of linux, if a newbie user found that out of the box, it looked crap on an LCD, couldn't play music and couldn't look up "you tube". That newbie users is going to go off and pull down a cracked version of Windows XP on his P2P client of choice instead of figuring out Linux, which means everyone looses. However I had to say, I have installed all of that stuff and the Desktop Effects, I haven't booted into Windows XP for the last three days of pretty intense work. It christmas all over again ... -- modified at 19:39 Thursday 28th December, 2006
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
Apparently there are tools broken on FC6 that worked on FC5 - I'm not sure which but some of the guys I work eith who are Linux gurus told me. Elaine :rose:
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Ray Kinsella wrote:
Will put something on my blog about it soon I think
Will wait for that. How about using 2 HDDs.? You did that?
:Gong: 歡迎光臨 吐 西批 :Gong:
Nope, I had an 80 gig disk split in 3, I just deleted a partition, told Fedora to use the free space on the disk .... no problems at all.
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