November 16, 2003
Thing One and Thing Two
Still playing with Fedora. A couple of things have bugged me about it since getting it up and running.
Firstly, after seemingly figuring out the network card, things went a bit awry (network not found when I switched to the home wifi connection; kernel panics etc). It turns out the best way to get the network up and running is to use the Internet Configuration Wizard in System Tools, rather than Network in System Settings. Don't ask me why.
Secondly, the package management system was a bit broken - it wouldn't let me install samba, and up2date had incorrect urls. All sorted now, but niggling. Having said that, the package manager looks so much better than many of the Debian equivalents. Redhat's commercial nature really had some benefits:
One last thing that's bugging me: constant disk whirring/clunking. I assume this is Nautilus keeping an eye out for media changes or something, but still ... grrr!
Posted by savs at November 16, 2003 1:38 AM