[CLUE-Tech] debian versus fedora

[Michael Riversong]

Hmmm i haven't had that problem with unmounting floppies in Fedora.  
Although in general i'm finding it easier to handle floppies from the 
KDE desktop than from Gnome, and not sure why at this point.

On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 07:50 AM, James LaRue wrote:

> I did a Knoppix install, and found it easy, powerful, and a snap to 
> upgrade. I was very impressed that after running apt-get update & 
> apt-get upgrade, just one more command -- apt-get install gnome -- was 
> enough to bring in the whole gnome environment.
>
> But despite the fact that I myself had gotten another Knoppix system to 
> sync my Palm via a USB port, I never did manage to do that in Knoppix 
> on my new Dell 450, so found myself going back to Fedora. Where, of 
> course, I now find myself unable to sync via USB. (Maybe this is 
> hardware related?)
>
> Three comments about the differences between Debian and Red Hat. First, 
> I'm finding that yum is just about as good as apt-get -- you can do 
> whole distribution upgrades with one command (although it's smart to 
> update the yum.conf file to make things faster -- see 
> fedora.artoo.net/faq/samples/yum.conf). Second, wander through a 
> bookstore and marvel at all the books on ..... Red Hat. And virtually 
> nothing else, other than the occasional FreeBSD tome. There's a wealth 
> of print support for Fedora, much less so for any other distribution. 
> Third, there are odd little idiosyncracies or weirdnesses in every 
> distribution. The Debian gnome wouldn't lock the screen; Fedora seems 
> to require being root at a terminal to unmount a floppy (which does 
> rather limit Fedora's likelihood of use in a public computing 
> environment).
>
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