[K12OSN] Damn, they are moving fast
Brian Chase
networkr0 at cfl.rr.com
Wed Nov 10 06:06:21 UTC 2004
Just tried to load FC3 on laptop, it doesn't even get to the graphical
installer screen. I run Knoppix on that laptop and everything works
well also.
Dennis Daniels wrote:
> How well does it support XDMCP choosers and NFS? It might be great for
> the desktop but as a server __FC2__ is still not very well
> documented... wireless in FC2 clearly lacked basics. I'm hoping FC3
> will do better... that said I just loaded knoppix 3.6 and it picked up
> my internal wireless and had no problem with my three pcimca cards...
> I can't say that for FC2 :/
>
> Report back on your findings! I'd be interested in hearin how the
> install fairs for you.
>
> best
> Denny
>
> Brian Chase wrote:
>
>> Well, there's another Fedora Core out, FC3, featuring new Gnome and
>> KDE, and other goodies like wireless tools and SE Linux, which is a
>> major security enhancement. Any of you KDE fans that use KWallet,
>> now there's a Keyring application in Gnome which operates similarly,
>> which give some competition to KDE. I still prefer using Kget
>> integration with Konqueror for mirror downloads, but you can do that
>> fine in Gnome so it looks like I'll be sticking with Gnome for
>> awhile. Firefox and Thunderbird are also included.
>>
>> Oh, yeah, another very cool and valuable feature, the email program
>> that looks just like Outlook called Evolution now has the ability to
>> connect directly to a Microsoft Exchange server and use all the
>> groupware functions on it, not that I've been able to test it, but
>> it's got the selection in "server type". This is pretty major for
>> introducing Linux in large corporate environments and not
>> short-changing those that use Linux from participating in shared
>> tasks, calendar items, and public folders.
>>
>> Not sure what this means, but FC3 partitioning looks very different,
>> didn't get screenshot, but I think it uses LVM by default. Logical
>> Volume Management, hmmm. Just started reading about it but don't
>> know the benefits yet. Comments....?
>>
>> Just loaded the new 64-bit version on the Opteron box, pretty sweet,
>> but still has similar look and feel. Had it loaded now for just a
>> day, so I'm sure I'll find a few more things that could use improvement.
>>
>> Other than that, no major breakthrough's in my Linux work, except
>> maybe for the squirrelmail plug ins, enabling full groupware
>> functionality on my webmail pages.
>>
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