Posted by
Zonk
on from the new-hat-for-you-sir? dept.
gmaestro writes "Fedora Core 4 Test 2 is up on the servers. New features in Fedora Core 4 test 2 include GNOME 2.10, KDE 3.4, as well as a preview of GCC 4.0 and support for the PowerPC architecture. Use a mirror or torrent and help with testing!"
comparing net-install to a cd set with all available packages is hardly meaningfull.
(and besides... booting up netinstall shouldn't take more than 2 floppies - if even that)
-- world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Re:Leave your Gentoo advocacy in another thread
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youknowmewell
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What if I want to use a GUI anyway, despite knowing how "things work"? I know how to./configure make make install, but I'd rather use rpms when I can. I know how to navigate the directory structure of a Linux box using the command line, but I'd rather use a filesystem manager like Nautilus instead. I know how to copy, move and delete files using the commandline, but I find it easier to use the GUI. I could configure my system using only text files, but I'd rather use a GUI.
Knowing how to a computer works, like knowing how a car works, is nice-to-know, but not need-to-know and I think it should stay that way. I don't want to spend my entire life just learning how things work, I'd actually like to do some work with those things.
Re:1 cd install
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Anonymous Coward
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if you want to install on one cd download the first CD and do a "minimum install" if that is not good enough for you download the tiny "boot.iso". If that is still not good enough for you download two cd's and click "desktop install" If that is still not good enough for you then the one CD is not the problem, the problem is Fedora is not the distro you're dying to advertise on this thread.
Fedora is not for people who have a 56k there is a billion updates constantly cause the distro is ever changing with new stuff. If downloading 2-4 CD's is un exceptable to you than the updates is really going to piss you off. If you don't have cable/dsl this is probably not the distro for you. You'd be better off with debian stable, suse or RHEL. Or something not so bleeding edge.
Re:Leave your Gentoo advocacy in another thread
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youknowmewell
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Good, you have the nice-to-know knowledge of commandlines. Now please, don't force the need of that knowledge on me or anybody else just to satisfy some desire for "more intelligent average users".
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comparing net-install to a cd set with all available packages is hardly meaningfull.
(and besides... booting up netinstall shouldn't take more than 2 floppies - if even that)
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
What if I want to use a GUI anyway, despite knowing how "things work"? I know how to ./configure make make install, but I'd rather use rpms when I can. I know how to navigate the directory structure of a Linux box using the command line, but I'd rather use a filesystem manager like Nautilus instead. I know how to copy, move and delete files using the commandline, but I find it easier to use the GUI. I could configure my system using only text files, but I'd rather use a GUI.
Knowing how to a computer works, like knowing how a car works, is nice-to-know, but not need-to-know and I think it should stay that way. I don't want to spend my entire life just learning how things work, I'd actually like to do some work with those things.
if you want to install on one cd download the first CD and do a "minimum install" if that is not good enough for you download the tiny "boot.iso". If that is still not good enough for you download two cd's and click "desktop install" If that is still not good enough for you then the one CD is not the problem, the problem is Fedora is not the distro you're dying to advertise on this thread.
Fedora is not for people who have a 56k there is a billion updates constantly cause the distro is ever changing with new stuff. If downloading 2-4 CD's is un exceptable to you than the updates is really going to piss you off. If you don't have cable/dsl this is probably not the distro for you. You'd be better off with debian stable, suse or RHEL. Or something not so bleeding edge.
Good, you have the nice-to-know knowledge of commandlines. Now please, don't force the need of that knowledge on me or anybody else just to satisfy some desire for "more intelligent average users".