What different between FC8 and FC9 ?

Chris Snook csnook at redhat.com
Wed Oct 1 13:50:18 UTC 2008


edwardspl at ita.org.mo wrote:
> Mike Burger wrote:
>>> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>> <edwardspl <at> ita.org.mo> writes:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>> Would you mind to help as the title ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>> A lot of things. F9 has KDE 4 (currently 4.1.1), F8 has KDE 3 (currently
>>>> 3.5.10). F9 has X.Org X11R7.4 (server 1.5.0), F8 has something inbetween
>>>> X11R7.2 and X11R7.3 (server 1.3.0 from X11R7.2). F9 has GNOME 2.22, F8
>>>> has
>>>> GNOME 2.20. F9 has TeXLive, F8 has teTeX. And so on.
>>>>
>>>> But most importantly, F8 will stop receiving updates very soon (1 month
>>>> after
>>>> the F10 release - with the F10 release scheduled for November, that will
>>>> be
>>>> December of this year).
>>>>
>>>>        Kevin Kofler
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> For FC9 ( Modules Profile )...
>>> Do you know where is it ( modprobe.conf ) ?
>>>
>>> In FC8, it is /etc/modprobe.conf...
>>>
>>> Thanks !
>>>     
>>
>> It's in the same place.
>>
>> Without wanting to sound rude, here, I have to ask...why...did you think
>> it would be some place else?
>>   
> Hello,
> 
> Sorry, don't quite understood your means....
> 
> Edward.
> 

F9 hides more of the module configuration guts by default, so it's possible to 
get away without a modprobe.conf, at least on some hardware.  If you need to 
configure things manually, just create modprobe.conf yourself and put your 
directives in there.

-- Chris




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