[K12OSN] *sigh* FC2 issues

[Andrew]

I read the Jan. thread. Swtiched to fc2. not a good result. I understand 
the problem--the need for the latest and greatest, etc...
But I also get kinda peeved when my lab locks up.
Eric Harrison wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 13:25, Andrew wrote:
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>>I know redhat helped a lot with the early stages. But it seems that the 
>>fedora model just isn't right for k12ltsp. At this rate FC3 will be out 
>>by the time we have a reliable fc2.Wouldn't it make more sense to drop 
>>fedora? I did. Debian comes to mind, but for those of us living in 
>>netware systems maybe suse would be a good candidate? I don't mean to be 
>>a killjoy, but I haven't been comfortable with any of the 4.X k12ltsps, 
>>and I get the sense that the prob might be fedora itself.
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>
>To spare everyone the agony of repeating this beat-to-death thread, I'll
>just point back to the archives ;-)  January 2004 had quite a few posts
>on the subject:
>
>http://www.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/2004-January/thread.html#01337
>
>
>Here is the link to my point-of-view, which has not changed much in the 
>six months since I wrote this:
>
>http://www.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/2004-January/msg01337.html
>
>-Eric
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>>>On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 07:14, Shawn Powers wrote:
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>>>>Apparently the things I tested in beta were not the things I should have
>>>>been testing...  Because now I'm installing 4.1.0 -- and I'm running into
>>>>troublesome issues...  Anyone have suggestions:
>>>>
>>>>1) I like kdm, with the login/password dialog on the same screen.  I
>>>>always use kdm, but now, in the kdm configuration (in kcontrol) I don't
>>>>have the option to remove the sessions I don't want (ie, everything but
>>>>icewm)  Is there a new configuration place for this?  I don't even see
>>>>"Reset your Desktop" as an option in kdm.
>>>>
>>>>2) I guess that was it -- but #1 involves several issues, the "Reset
>>>>Desktop" session is gone, and I can't disable everything but IceWM.  IN
>>>>FACT, IceWM isn't even an option in kdm anymore...
>>>>
>>>>Were there drastic changes in the way kdm behaves?  I have gotten rid of
>>>>kdm and gdm, so that xdm is used -- but it doesn't have the option (of
>>>>course) to reset desktop either...
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>>>KDM did indeed make a change that none of us caught. I've fixed IceWM and
>>>will start work on "Reset Desktop". The updated IceWM has already been added
>>>to the update repository.
>>>
>>>I don't see an option to change sessions in kcontrol. You can do it the
>>>"manual" way by removing the sessions you don't want from /usr/share/xessions/
>>>
>>>-Eric
>>> 
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