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I did a quick search and found this: https://www.jwz.org/webcollage...

Tried to backup to the directory and see if there was more, but, I didn't find a path back to a download or code, just talk of it working as a screensaver.

Also found this just great discussion of people quite disturbed by the output it came up with and wanting to see it removed: http://www.fedoraforum.org/for...

Which, I've noticed, is still how people handle common applications, with "copy it to the taskbar" a close second and the two "pin" options vying for a distant third.

I run Linux, Fedora 22 using the XFCE desktop. My "panel", which I call the "taskbar" is at the bottom, as the Goddess intended. On that taskbar just to the left of the buttons showing my running applications/windows, are 4 quick launch buttons for my most commonly used applications, in the usual place for quick launch buttons. At the far right of the taskbar is the clock, the notification area is to the left of the clock. I use a specific theme for window decorations where the window title bars are blue and the close button is red.

Why yes it DOES resemble WinXP, why do you ask?

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/...

Strangely I was exposed to KDE and FVWM BEFORE I ever used WinXP. And I had used WinNT4 before I used Win95.

Those folks who came up with the CDE that inspired em all knew what they were doing...designing a GUI that WORKED.

Installed since Alpha, using full time since Beta. No major issues - just lxdm user switch doesn't work. Hope it is fixed in final release.

Switched to lightdm, so not checked lxdm issue yet.

As said documents contain much personal information that isn't necessarily my own, I'm afraid I can't do that.

That's fine, I understand that, but can you do some kind of mockup we can use as an actual test?

and I'm surprised you would need to see proof of it.

I need to see proof of it because of:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/...

How LO lays things out varies depending on the version installed and the typefaces you have installed. Some of the formatting issues are simply typeface issues. (but not all, of course)

Something like a flyer or pamphlet can be especially problematic. Of course, one might suggest that one ouoght to be using a better tool, such as Scribus for something like that,

You should be using Scribus....or Print Shop for something like that. Word is not the right tool for that job.

but the reason people distribute files in Office format is because of its near ubiquity./quote

If people need documents to appear the exact same way on every platform they should be using PDF.

All popular package managers, including APT, RPM and the FreeBSD Ports Collection, suffer from the problem of destructive upgrades. When you perform an upgrade -- whether for a single application or your entire operating system -- the package manager will overwrite the files that are currently on your system with newer versions. As long as packages are always perfectly backward-compatible, this is not a problem, but in the real world, packages are anything but perfectly backward-compatible.

(from http://archive09.linux.com/feature/155922)

We have all been bitten by this. It is not that prevalent on servers (what I use Linux for), but desktop distros definately suffers from this.

also:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/dependency-hell-233892/

http://fixunix.com/suse/265243-dependency-hell.html

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=289520&goto=nextnewest

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/52282.aspx

Dependency hell is real. Package managers help mitigate the problem locally, but software repositories are distro and version specific. Once you step outside of the official repository you risk stepping into dependency hell, as many of the above experienced. I fully concede that it *shoudn't* be a problem if every piece of software author did what they were supposed to do. It is the OSs job to provide a service and guidance so that authors do the right thing. Linux is not quite there yet, unfortunately. That's why you see the typical advice to install from the "official" distro and version specific repository. But that model is flawed.

I have a recovery question. It is all my fault , but how do you suggest I ask for help? I asked it at the FedoraForums, but not much help. thanks

Is your issue Fedora or KDE related? If Fedora subscribe here or if KDE related subscribe here . Personally I have not had many problems with Fedora (I have 18) and even less with KDE although I did switch to Gnome for a few months when KDE 4.0 came out.

Hopefully something with better quality that supports hardware decoding and doesn't require me to install HAL.

Oh, the token I mentioned was the EAPOL replay counter. (What ever the hell that is).

See this thread http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=177798 where the resolution (near the bottom) was as I mentioned, connecting to any unsecured router than connecting back again.

If you're already familiar with Fedora, might I recommend installing MATE on Fedora (I used the instructions from here)? I've found it to work quite nicely (Like you, I was stuck in the "modern desktops in Linux suck" boat until MATE and Trinity Desktop Environment (KDE 3.5)).

I had to work my way through all that pulse bullshit in combination with HDMI over a year ago. Tested a new release last week and it still does not work.

Using Pulse with HDMI audio right now. One of the tricks is to tell Pulse to use the "right" hw numbers.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=261378

Yes, I have used that in the past... that's what I tried using.

But from the Fedora forum itself

Re: f16 cant use nvidia drivers
You cannot use the the old legacy 173.xx.xx Nvidia drivers in F16. It is not compatible with the current version Xorg.

What would happen is that some bit of the kernel grabbed up the PCI interrupt/memory map and allocated it to the nouveau driver. The NVidia driver installer would complain about not finding some interrupt or other. If the nouveau driver wasn't there in .ko form, X-windows wouldn't start.

I couldn't even use the package installer to remove the nouveau driver without it wanting to take out the entire X-windows/Xorg system. The Grub boot system had also changed rather substantially. Even using "dracut" wouldn't help.

The funny thing is, over on the Fedora Forum, Gnome dev Rahul Sundaram is adamant that Gnome 3 was not tablet/iOS inspired

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1487668

This post was a drastically condensed version of my full review from http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=263609 The first problem is that I don't like requiring people remember keyboard shortcuts in order to have a functional desktop. I like my mouse, it's already in my hand, and I don't want to be required to reach for the keyboard, and that's my right to have such a preference, thanks. Second, your solution adds an extra motion before I can even see my app list, then the same number of subsequent motions and clicks to switch. With Gnome 2, I can be reading the list of apps on the taskbar looking for the one I want, all while my mouse is en-route to that area of the desktop, so by the time I get down there, my eyes have zero'd in on exactly where I need to click. With your suggestion, I still have to mouse left and wait for the popout before my brain can even begin processing where I need to click. So, not only are we adding more mouse motions, but were are increasing the time my brain requires between those motions to perform the required actions. This is does NOT constitute an *improvement* to me.

Have they already made the switch?

I'm referring to http://forums.fedoraforum.org.../

The Thunderbird problem is a known bug. Things have bugs sometimes. At least you were able to work around it, on Windows or OSX you might not have had so many options.

Google Earth is a proprietary application, it's up to Google to make it work, and they should have set up their own symlink properly. Here's a possible fix for the font problem: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204513

Next you have issues configuring video editing software. No decent video editing software is simple and easy to set up to do everything, only simple toys like WMM and iMovie that have very limited functionality are.

Are you sure the muted sound in Kubuntu isn't specific to your sound card? I've seen reports of sound working out of the box so the sound doesn't seem to actually be muted.

And finally your proprietary, intentionally locked down digital audio player doesn't work. What more needs to be said about that?

What's FC14? If you mean Fedora 14 (the "Core" was dropped after FC6), try the instructions in the fourth post here. It worked for me.

symlink the LSO folder to /dev/null

leigh123linux fixed it.

Fedora 12 driving eight displays

No, you did not.

Through the miracles of emulation, a U3 device (such as the Sandisk drives being discussed here) presents itself as two physically separate USB peripherals, along with a virtualized USB hub to connect them to the host. One of them is a USB CD-ROM, and the other is a USB storage device.

The emulated storage device only has one partition on it, which fills the entire available area of the disk (as limited by hardware). Read more about it at Wikipedia.

This is a special function of the hardware, not just a partition table trick. You can write zeros over the entire accessible thing, and U3 will survive.

It takes magic to turn this function off. GParted does not include such magic.

This is what startup scripts are for: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1047697#post1047697

Try this forum, I followed the configuration method as detailed in by the person in the forum for pulseaudio and it worked on my machine. Baring that try a search on "pulseaudio howto". Ok I am repeating myself in this discussion but the configuration as detailed (it is very quick and simple) actually worked for me. It could also work for you so at least give it a try.

Pulseaudio has never worked OK for me.

Pulseaudio has never quite worked right for me, either, and I use Fedora. In my case, audio either works or it doesn't, and I haven't quite been able to nail down a consistent pattern.

Try this forum . Pulseaudio is now working fine for me.

The most annoying issue with Fedora 11 was KDE 4 which IMHO should have been a beta or even an alpha. I did persevere for a short while but I had to revert my family to Gnome until KDE 4.3 came out. Yes KDE is different to KDE 3 but I rather like KDE 4.3 now.

Another issue I found was pulseaudio (we have discussed this recently) and found it annoying to the point were I actually removed it. Only yesterday I was doing a search on pulseaudio and I noticed the following and followed the procedure. It only took a few minutes and now my pulseaudio actually works.

Basically the above were the only issues I had with Fedora 11 and I have installed it as the primary OS on my company laptop with WinXP Sp2 under virtualisation (I am allowed to do this although MS Windows with company bits was an absolute PITA) so I am looking forward to Fedora 12 which I will install on my home PC first.

I use Fedora, and am a regular reader and poster on FedoraForum.org. In the several years I've been following it, I've never seen a question answered with RTFM. I have, however, seen newcomers told that their question has been asked and answered a number of times, and that a simple search of the forum would have found the answer, sometimes with a link to an example. I've also seen links posted to the appropriate faq, with the implied offer to explain anything that still isn't clear. I've also had occasion to surf both the Ubuntu and Puppy Linux forums and never seen anything like that in either of those.

The MS license that accompanies Dell Mini 9s is $50 (the linux Mini 9 is $50 cheaper). I started with Windows and ended up with Ubuntu Linux. I disagree with the idea that Windows XP may be more suitable for a netbook than Linux. Try installing XP, setting up your hardware, load a few applications, and then load office. It will take a fair amount of your day. Then do the same with Ubuntu (a common choice for netbooks). I spent an hour and everything worked: hibernate, wireless, compiz for fancy window effects, and even printing to a wireless printer. If you haven't tried Linux in a while, then you should revisit soon. You will find installation, maintenance, security, and usability are all better than XP.

My netbook shipped with Windows XP. If I need to reinstall and don't want to use the recovery media for some reason, the drivers are all provided on a CD. Office 2007 takes less than 10 minutes to install from a USB drive.

I considered installing Ubuntu, but it doesn't support full-disk encryption (from the GUI installer) - it's only possible if you use the text-mode installer or mess around with the command line. This is much more difficult than installing TrueCrypt for Windows. Yes, I could spend a fair amount of my day getting full disk encryption to work, and I even tried the text-mode installer CD... but it failed.

The only distribution I'm aware of that sets up full-disk encryption from the GUI installer is Fedora, and it installed without issue - but the X server shipped in Fedora 10 performs poorly with Intel graphics. Yes, I could spend a fair amount of my day getting X working properly...

I ended up installing Vista and TrueCrypt. I spent less time doing that than I did messing around with Linux...

The 965 chipset's MTRRs are still broken, after a dozen firmware revisions, but nobody at Intel cares because it only breaks 64-bit Linux with >=4gb of RAM.

People usually don't sign up for Open Source or Free Software. They just do stuff, put it out there and let other people use it. To quote one Mr. Torvalds, real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.

I have customer service skills godddammnit! Anyway, I'd hope to be able to help. Like I said, where do I sign up? Is it with Canonical, or is there a generic "Linux" marketing effort someplace?

Have you thought about starting a blog?

How about taking an active part in one or more major distribution's forum?

• http://fedoraforum.org/
• http://forums.opensuse.org/
• http://ubuntuforums.org/
• http://forums.gentoo.org/

Just publishing (in a reusable format under a nice CC License)

• market research
• technical business direction
• explainations of what is possible to the business types
• what you (as a marketing professional) learn from techies

If your work is of high quality, it would make an impact.

I am using Fedora Core 8 on a laptop with a Atheros AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor. The drivers wrk perfectly.

First of all, the broadband router was not configured to enable wifi - that required some grokking of the installation manual to get the IP address, username and password to access the configuration menu, all on the same channel/frequency.

Then there was the configuration to follow various Security Tips.
Regardless of my location, six or seven different wi-fi networks will show up on the configuration manager.

The default setting for the wifi configuration menu was "ad-hoc", but nothing would happen until "managed" mode was selected.

Ad-hoc vs Managed mode

Then there was the problem of getting the wifi driver to be automatically seleted upon startup (there are two possible communications modes: Ethernet RJ45 vs. wi-fi).

Until thes security key was set using iwconfig, nothing would work.

Setting up a WPA pass phrase

And cracking a WPA passphrase, which makes the above seem a bit pointless.

In all probability, the need for all of this has probably gone away with more recent distro's - I had similar problems in the past with various other drivers.

this is what the red hat bugzilla is for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ bugs. or perhaps the fedora forums http://fedoraforum.org/ or perhaps #fedora on freenode.

Not a windows story on slashdot, because posting about it here is not really going to get it fixed...

We only failed with KDE 4.0 if we measure the work based on others' criteria, not our clearly stated goals.

This particular line is especially pathetic — even if truthful. Yes, according to others, we royally screwed up, but, fortunately, we had our own definitions of the goals.

To see this guys try to wriggle out of this shame is as unpleasant as trying to use their software. They've "redefined" an alpha pre-release as a "4.0". They've followed up with several minor post-releases (it is at 4.0.4 right now, is not it?) — which continue to be both feature-incomplete and buggy. But, I guess, if none of that was among their "clearly stated goals", things are dandy...

To call release of Plasma — the "new development from the ground up" — a "success" by any definition is a bad joke. The software screws itself up every once in a while so badly, the Internet-forums are already full of of advises, like this "just delete .kde/share/config/plasmarc".

KDE appears to have grown a serious marketing department some time ago — I noticed this during their pre-release "tension build-up", which was not unlike that of a new X-Box or iPhone. Heck, their "release party" was Google-sponsored! Except the new X-Box and iPhone work (save, maybe, for a few glitches). KDE4, on the other hand, does not — by anybody's definition, except, maybe, their own.

This most recent "gracious" response is just another marketing spin-attempt...

For nvidia, downgrade xorg.

Apparently it is possible, you just need to downgrade XOrg-server and downgrade mesa-libGL for now. Seems a bit of a shame when "new XOrg" is one of the features, but I've set the DVD downloading at work overnight tonight, so I'll see if it downloaded in the morning and then take the dive soon :) IIRC there was a similar situation with fgrlx drivers and AIGLX at one point where the only way to fix gtk-window-decorator in Compiz was with the F7 version of XOrg.

ATi seem to have been releasing drivers mid-month or earlier more recently, so hopefully it won't be too long until new drivers are out and hopefully they'll support the new XOrg server.

Apparently it is possible, you just need to downgrade XOrg-server and downgrade mesa-libGL for now. Seems a bit of a shame when "new XOrg" is one of the features, but I've set the DVD downloading at work overnight tonight, so I'll see if it downloaded in the morning and then take the dive soon :) IIRC there was a similar situation with fgrlx drivers and AIGLX at one point where the only way to fix gtk-window-decorator in Compiz was with the F7 version of XOrg.

ATi seem to have been releasing drivers mid-month or earlier more recently, so hopefully it won't be too long until new drivers are out and hopefully they'll support the new XOrg server.

light gray on black a shot of my desk top http://www.fedoraforum.org/gallery/file_4gallery/4/3/2/0/2/jvv1_original.png or http://img241.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=13374_4321_122_507lo.jpg

Here's some folks discussing the idea in 1994 (the year prior to the application) - and even then talking about it as if it was already a common thing.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-29630.html

I hate it when I get to a story late. Been using Fedora for a couple of weeks now. The thing that almost killed me was finding out that it does not allow you to use a static IP address.

Lots of info available on this via google. The best fix I found was to revert the Network Manager to the one from F7.

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=172205&highlight=networkmanager

You gotta admit that's pretty lame.

Tony

I recently purchased an X61 and I've been happy running Linux on it. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody who isn't very familiar with Linux already.

First of all, Thinkpads don't come with install media. You can make your own, but that's sort of hard if you bought a slimline model like the X61 without a CD drive. The tech support people were ultimately not helpful. They were willing to waive the $40 media fee (Lenovo, WTF?) because my computer doesn't have a disk drive, but it was "too new" for my warranty to be in their database (WTF?) and they couldn't send me the disks.

Still, as long as I didn't touch their initial partition, I reasoned, I could still get back to a factory install. Windows was only a last resort if I couldn't get Linux on there anyway.

The SATA controller had to be put in compatibility mode, unsurprisingly. The wireless worked in Ubuntu when I backported the Gutsy kernel, but the screen brightness control stoped working with the Gutsy kernel. So I tried Fedora 7.

In Fedora 7 (32 bit version), wireless worked out of the box once all the kernel updates were installed (mostly worked that is -- reboot and "modprobe -r iwl4965; modprobe iwl4965" often).

I can't get sound working even with the CVS copy of the "patch_analog.c" from alsa cvs copied into the alsa driver source. Others have had more success with this.

Suspend (often) works after following the instructions for a T61 linked from here. Of course, 50% of the time the machine will crash coming out of suspend, so I'm going to try the instructions here and see how it goes.

I haven't even tried to get all the keyboard function buttons working.

Wow, conspiracy theory, flamebait, and outright lies. Impressive.

Show me the original post then. Prove to me that the pagination of the output of slashcode is not broken. Prove to me the original post was not deleted. You cannot.

I learned Linux on Fedora

Fedora is NOT Linux, it is some sick abomination of it. You did not learn Linux, you learned Redhat.

I spent lots of time in the user groups and searching Google, and never heard of anything like what you report

Right...:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html
Hit #2 on a Google search for "constant disk activity Fedora Core 2", and its not my post.

Here's another:
http://mailman.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/ 2004-May/011211.html

Another:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t- 100719.html

Searching the FedoraForum.org forums directly for "disk activity" yeilds plenty of hits, some of them are linked below:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3007 1&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6335 8&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5843 9&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1007 19&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7799 5&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1472 88&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1460 01&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1467 44&highlight=disk+activity

it goes on and on... FUD? I think not. Many of these complaints are like mine, nothing running, yet constant disk activity.

I'll dig a bit and see if I can find my original post on the Fedora support forums, though it has probably been pruned by now, as most forums cannot retain their full database and perform at a reasonable speed (though I can manage it on a fully functioning OS). In that original thread, seasoned RedHat users informed me that RedHat/Fedora is nothing like a genuine standard linux, I concluded much the same after testing a few more distributions, hell, even the BSDs are more Linux standards adherent than Fedora.

It looks like the original forums there are gone, and a new version is there since I posted about FC2.

How about over at linuxforums.org:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html?h ighlight=disk+acti

Wow, conspiracy theory, flamebait, and outright lies. Impressive.

Show me the original post then. Prove to me that the pagination of the output of slashcode is not broken. Prove to me the original post was not deleted. You cannot.

I learned Linux on Fedora

Fedora is NOT Linux, it is some sick abomination of it. You did not learn Linux, you learned Redhat.

I spent lots of time in the user groups and searching Google, and never heard of anything like what you report

Right...:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html
Hit #2 on a Google search for "constant disk activity Fedora Core 2", and its not my post.

Here's another:
http://mailman.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/ 2004-May/011211.html

Another:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t- 100719.html

Searching the FedoraForum.org forums directly for "disk activity" yeilds plenty of hits, some of them are linked below:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3007 1&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6335 8&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5843 9&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1007 19&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7799 5&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1472 88&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1460 01&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1467 44&highlight=disk+activity

it goes on and on... FUD? I think not. Many of these complaints are like mine, nothing running, yet constant disk activity.

I'll dig a bit and see if I can find my original post on the Fedora support forums, though it has probably been pruned by now, as most forums cannot retain their full database and perform at a reasonable speed (though I can manage it on a fully functioning OS). In that original thread, seasoned RedHat users informed me that RedHat/Fedora is nothing like a genuine standard linux, I concluded much the same after testing a few more distributions, hell, even the BSDs are more Linux standards adherent than Fedora.

It looks like the original forums there are gone, and a new version is there since I posted about FC2.

How about over at linuxforums.org:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html?h ighlight=disk+acti

Wow, conspiracy theory, flamebait, and outright lies. Impressive.

Show me the original post then. Prove to me that the pagination of the output of slashcode is not broken. Prove to me the original post was not deleted. You cannot.

I learned Linux on Fedora

Fedora is NOT Linux, it is some sick abomination of it. You did not learn Linux, you learned Redhat.

I spent lots of time in the user groups and searching Google, and never heard of anything like what you report

Right...:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html
Hit #2 on a Google search for "constant disk activity Fedora Core 2", and its not my post.

Here's another:
http://mailman.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/ 2004-May/011211.html

Another:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t- 100719.html

Searching the FedoraForum.org forums directly for "disk activity" yeilds plenty of hits, some of them are linked below:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3007 1&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6335 8&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5843 9&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1007 19&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7799 5&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1472 88&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1460 01&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1467 44&highlight=disk+activity

it goes on and on... FUD? I think not. Many of these complaints are like mine, nothing running, yet constant disk activity.

I'll dig a bit and see if I can find my original post on the Fedora support forums, though it has probably been pruned by now, as most forums cannot retain their full database and perform at a reasonable speed (though I can manage it on a fully functioning OS). In that original thread, seasoned RedHat users informed me that RedHat/Fedora is nothing like a genuine standard linux, I concluded much the same after testing a few more distributions, hell, even the BSDs are more Linux standards adherent than Fedora.

It looks like the original forums there are gone, and a new version is there since I posted about FC2.

How about over at linuxforums.org:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html?h ighlight=disk+acti

Wow, conspiracy theory, flamebait, and outright lies. Impressive.

Show me the original post then. Prove to me that the pagination of the output of slashcode is not broken. Prove to me the original post was not deleted. You cannot.

I learned Linux on Fedora

Fedora is NOT Linux, it is some sick abomination of it. You did not learn Linux, you learned Redhat.

I spent lots of time in the user groups and searching Google, and never heard of anything like what you report

Right...:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html
Hit #2 on a Google search for "constant disk activity Fedora Core 2", and its not my post.

Here's another:
http://mailman.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/ 2004-May/011211.html

Another:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t- 100719.html

Searching the FedoraForum.org forums directly for "disk activity" yeilds plenty of hits, some of them are linked below:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3007 1&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6335 8&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5843 9&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1007 19&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7799 5&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1472 88&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1460 01&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1467 44&highlight=disk+activity

it goes on and on... FUD? I think not. Many of these complaints are like mine, nothing running, yet constant disk activity.

I'll dig a bit and see if I can find my original post on the Fedora support forums, though it has probably been pruned by now, as most forums cannot retain their full database and perform at a reasonable speed (though I can manage it on a fully functioning OS). In that original thread, seasoned RedHat users informed me that RedHat/Fedora is nothing like a genuine standard linux, I concluded much the same after testing a few more distributions, hell, even the BSDs are more Linux standards adherent than Fedora.

It looks like the original forums there are gone, and a new version is there since I posted about FC2.

How about over at linuxforums.org:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html?h ighlight=disk+acti

Wow, conspiracy theory, flamebait, and outright lies. Impressive.

Show me the original post then. Prove to me that the pagination of the output of slashcode is not broken. Prove to me the original post was not deleted. You cannot.

I learned Linux on Fedora

Fedora is NOT Linux, it is some sick abomination of it. You did not learn Linux, you learned Redhat.

I spent lots of time in the user groups and searching Google, and never heard of anything like what you report

Right...:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html
Hit #2 on a Google search for "constant disk activity Fedora Core 2", and its not my post.

Here's another:
http://mailman.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/ 2004-May/011211.html

Another:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t- 100719.html

Searching the FedoraForum.org forums directly for "disk activity" yeilds plenty of hits, some of them are linked below:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3007 1&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6335 8&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5843 9&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1007 19&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7799 5&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1472 88&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1460 01&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1467 44&highlight=disk+activity

it goes on and on... FUD? I think not. Many of these complaints are like mine, nothing running, yet constant disk activity.

I'll dig a bit and see if I can find my original post on the Fedora support forums, though it has probably been pruned by now, as most forums cannot retain their full database and perform at a reasonable speed (though I can manage it on a fully functioning OS). In that original thread, seasoned RedHat users informed me that RedHat/Fedora is nothing like a genuine standard linux, I concluded much the same after testing a few more distributions, hell, even the BSDs are more Linux standards adherent than Fedora.

It looks like the original forums there are gone, and a new version is there since I posted about FC2.

How about over at linuxforums.org:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html?h ighlight=disk+acti

Wow, conspiracy theory, flamebait, and outright lies. Impressive.

Show me the original post then. Prove to me that the pagination of the output of slashcode is not broken. Prove to me the original post was not deleted. You cannot.

I learned Linux on Fedora

Fedora is NOT Linux, it is some sick abomination of it. You did not learn Linux, you learned Redhat.

I spent lots of time in the user groups and searching Google, and never heard of anything like what you report

Right...:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html
Hit #2 on a Google search for "constant disk activity Fedora Core 2", and its not my post.

Here's another:
http://mailman.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/ 2004-May/011211.html

Another:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t- 100719.html

Searching the FedoraForum.org forums directly for "disk activity" yeilds plenty of hits, some of them are linked below:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3007 1&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6335 8&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5843 9&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1007 19&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7799 5&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1472 88&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1460 01&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1467 44&highlight=disk+activity

it goes on and on... FUD? I think not. Many of these complaints are like mine, nothing running, yet constant disk activity.

I'll dig a bit and see if I can find my original post on the Fedora support forums, though it has probably been pruned by now, as most forums cannot retain their full database and perform at a reasonable speed (though I can manage it on a fully functioning OS). In that original thread, seasoned RedHat users informed me that RedHat/Fedora is nothing like a genuine standard linux, I concluded much the same after testing a few more distributions, hell, even the BSDs are more Linux standards adherent than Fedora.

It looks like the original forums there are gone, and a new version is there since I posted about FC2.

How about over at linuxforums.org:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html?h ighlight=disk+acti

Wow, conspiracy theory, flamebait, and outright lies. Impressive.

Show me the original post then. Prove to me that the pagination of the output of slashcode is not broken. Prove to me the original post was not deleted. You cannot.

I learned Linux on Fedora

Fedora is NOT Linux, it is some sick abomination of it. You did not learn Linux, you learned Redhat.

I spent lots of time in the user groups and searching Google, and never heard of anything like what you report

Right...:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html
Hit #2 on a Google search for "constant disk activity Fedora Core 2", and its not my post.

Here's another:
http://mailman.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/ 2004-May/011211.html

Another:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t- 100719.html

Searching the FedoraForum.org forums directly for "disk activity" yeilds plenty of hits, some of them are linked below:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3007 1&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6335 8&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5843 9&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1007 19&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7799 5&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1472 88&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1460 01&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1467 44&highlight=disk+activity

it goes on and on... FUD? I think not. Many of these complaints are like mine, nothing running, yet constant disk activity.

I'll dig a bit and see if I can find my original post on the Fedora support forums, though it has probably been pruned by now, as most forums cannot retain their full database and perform at a reasonable speed (though I can manage it on a fully functioning OS). In that original thread, seasoned RedHat users informed me that RedHat/Fedora is nothing like a genuine standard linux, I concluded much the same after testing a few more distributions, hell, even the BSDs are more Linux standards adherent than Fedora.

It looks like the original forums there are gone, and a new version is there since I posted about FC2.

How about over at linuxforums.org:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html?h ighlight=disk+acti

Wow, conspiracy theory, flamebait, and outright lies. Impressive.

Show me the original post then. Prove to me that the pagination of the output of slashcode is not broken. Prove to me the original post was not deleted. You cannot.

I learned Linux on Fedora

Fedora is NOT Linux, it is some sick abomination of it. You did not learn Linux, you learned Redhat.

I spent lots of time in the user groups and searching Google, and never heard of anything like what you report

Right...:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html
Hit #2 on a Google search for "constant disk activity Fedora Core 2", and its not my post.

Here's another:
http://mailman.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/ 2004-May/011211.html

Another:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t- 100719.html

Searching the FedoraForum.org forums directly for "disk activity" yeilds plenty of hits, some of them are linked below:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3007 1&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6335 8&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5843 9&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1007 19&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7799 5&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1472 88&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1460 01&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1467 44&highlight=disk+activity

it goes on and on... FUD? I think not. Many of these complaints are like mine, nothing running, yet constant disk activity.

I'll dig a bit and see if I can find my original post on the Fedora support forums, though it has probably been pruned by now, as most forums cannot retain their full database and perform at a reasonable speed (though I can manage it on a fully functioning OS). In that original thread, seasoned RedHat users informed me that RedHat/Fedora is nothing like a genuine standard linux, I concluded much the same after testing a few more distributions, hell, even the BSDs are more Linux standards adherent than Fedora.

It looks like the original forums there are gone, and a new version is there since I posted about FC2.

How about over at linuxforums.org:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html?h ighlight=disk+acti

Wow, conspiracy theory, flamebait, and outright lies. Impressive.

Show me the original post then. Prove to me that the pagination of the output of slashcode is not broken. Prove to me the original post was not deleted. You cannot.

I learned Linux on Fedora

Fedora is NOT Linux, it is some sick abomination of it. You did not learn Linux, you learned Redhat.

I spent lots of time in the user groups and searching Google, and never heard of anything like what you report

Right...:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html
Hit #2 on a Google search for "constant disk activity Fedora Core 2", and its not my post.

Here's another:
http://mailman.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/ 2004-May/011211.html

Another:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t- 100719.html

Searching the FedoraForum.org forums directly for "disk activity" yeilds plenty of hits, some of them are linked below:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3007 1&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6335 8&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5843 9&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1007 19&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7799 5&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1472 88&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1460 01&highlight=disk+activity
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1467 44&highlight=disk+activity

it goes on and on... FUD? I think not. Many of these complaints are like mine, nothing running, yet constant disk activity.

I'll dig a bit and see if I can find my original post on the Fedora support forums, though it has probably been pruned by now, as most forums cannot retain their full database and perform at a reasonable speed (though I can manage it on a fully functioning OS). In that original thread, seasoned RedHat users informed me that RedHat/Fedora is nothing like a genuine standard linux, I concluded much the same after testing a few more distributions, hell, even the BSDs are more Linux standards adherent than Fedora.

It looks like the original forums there are gone, and a new version is there since I posted about FC2.

How about over at linuxforums.org:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-lin ux-help/43558-constant-disk-activity-x86_64.html?h ighlight=disk+acti

For me, the trick for getting FC6 going on a pavillion was to toggle the plug and play bios setting http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php? t=139555&highlight=a1612n and after that things went pretty smoothly. A have not heard back on my question about why power saving for the screen makes the mouse disappear. But, for the most part linux does well on this machine.
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They have been doing this for some time. I have heard that Linux is known to port badly to these machines.

I am currently in the process of doing this with Acer in the UK. It has taken about six weeks but I will be getting my refund, about £40. Since all communication with Acer has been done by email I have documented the steps on the Fedora Forums (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=13 9627).

The good thing about what I have done is that I have made Acer create a brand new policy. If someone buys a computer or laptop from Acer and they do not agree to the Windows EULA they can contact Acer and ask for a refund. They should be sent a form and will be required to despatch their machine to Acer for them to remove it.

Once I officially obtain the refund I will try and ensure that their policy is mentioned on their website.