[CVALE] Fedora Core 5

[jamie.davis@comcast.net]

What I do like about FC5 is that if you tweak the xorg.conf and it craps out it will revert to the default settings so you can get back into X windows. So you don't have manually mv the old config to the current config. Pretty cool. 

The ubuntu gui package manager seems much faster at checking the repositories. It also will notify you if there are updates to packages you currently have. I am not sure if FC5 also has the feature. Not that it is neccesary but it is knob friendly which is the point with FC5 and Ubuntu. 


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "david burzota" <david_burzota at hotmail.com>
> 
> oops, I misunderstood.  The tool is called "Pup" or Package Updater, and it
> doesnt seem to have all the functionality of Yum or Up2date.
> 
> 
> >From: "Wayne Vieira" <wavieira at sbcglobal.net>
> >Reply-To: cvale at cvale.org
> >To: "'Pete Zaitcev'" <zaitcev at redhat.com>,<cvale at cvale.org>
> >Subject: Re: [CVALE] Fedora Core 5
> >Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:33:49 -0700
> >
> >Hi Pete,
> >I agree it's pretty vague; that's part of the problem.  The "update tool" 
> >(I
> >still don't know what it's called) doesn't seem to have any obvious
> >configuration component to it (up2date did, and it was easy to find on the
> >menu), and when it says the update fails, it gives no error message why, 
> >and
> >selecting the 'okay' button just makes the updater disappear.  I typically
> >like to give a few more details when asking for help, but am not certain
> >where to start.  FC5 just configured it for me, and said nothing.  Maybe I
> >can step back and ask some different questions:
> >
> >1.  What is the actual name of the tool (this would help with various 
> >system
> >and web searches on the topic; at least I could do a 'man <command>' on it.
> >
> >Actually, if someone has that info, it would probably go a long way.  Any
> >other questions I might have (config files, howto's, error messages, etc.)
> >would also be welcome, but are probably searchable, if I just new the
> >*bleeping* name.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Wayne
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Pete Zaitcev [mailto:zaitcev at redhat.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:53 AM
> >To: cvale at cvale.org
> >Cc: wavieira at sbcglobal.net; zaitcev at redhat.com
> >Subject: Re: [CVALE] Fedora Core 5
> >
> >On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:15:00 -0700, "Wayne Vieira" <wavieira at sbcglobal.net>
> >wrote:
> >
> > > The updater (don't know what it's actually called; FC2 had up2date; Suse
> >had
> > > YOU) seemed to be broken after the initial update.  When it broke, it
> >didn't
> > > tell you where to look or what to configure; it just went away.
> >
> >That's a very vague description of the problem. Everything seems to
> >work fine here.
> >
> >-- Pete
> >
> >
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