To: Pearls Before Swine
I did a full install of Ubuntu (the windows on my laptop was worthless)...
how is Fedora in comparison for a Linux Newbie.??
3 posted on
11/27/2009 4:28:33 PM PST by
gwilhelm56
(Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his office. ")
To: gwilhelm56
Have you checked out Puppy Linux? I loaded it on an old P2 laptop. Incredibly easy load and setup. Great for us newbies.
4 posted on
11/27/2009 5:28:11 PM PST by
bleach
(Sarah, Wake me in 2012)
To: gwilhelm56
Fedora uses the Red Hat Package or RPM system also found in Mandriva. "Dependency hell" is probably the great drawback which is why newbies are better off using APT. Fedora's package manager is YUM represented by Gnomepackagekit's GUI. You can also install Synaptic and APT if you want a more familiar Debian-based package management tool, although PCLOS through Synaptic is the best way to run RPM if you're a Linux newbie.
30 posted on
12/07/2009 2:26:45 PM PST by
goldstategop
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