[CS-FSLUG] Fedora core 1

[N. Thompson]

On Monday 19 April 2004 12:52, David McGlone wrote:
> On Monday 19 April 2004 02:43 pm, N. Thompson wrote:
> > On Monday 19 April 2004 08:37, David McGlone wrote:
> > > On Monday 19 April 2004 12:07 am, N. Thompson wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Nathan, I hope FC works out for you. I know how hard you been having
> > > it, trying to find the right distro.
> > >
> > > So far i've been running it for 5 days and I am liking it. I just miss
> > > mandrakes right click menu, but I can live without it.
> > >
> > > David M.
> >
> > I'm not sure what right click menu that was, except for a few missing KDE
> > apps and a sound driver I've not found much to be lacking.
>
> Mandrakes right click menu had automatic "burn to cd", "zip", "tar" and
> "gzip" along with "untar" when you right clicked on a file.

Burn to CD might be missing because there is no K3b in FC 1, I've got ark 
though and I don't have the zip, tar, gzip and untar options either.

Imo SUSE and RH are on par with each other, SUSE is a bit better in that it 
has hardware detection all the time whereas RH only runs Kudzu once when 
booting but at the same time SUSE's suseplugger tends to stall for nearly a 
full minute when I plug in my USB removable drive. I can't get RH to mount my 
NTFS Windows partition either but I do like the more manual approach it has, 
Its nice to have a distribution that has config tools for most of the stuff 
but leaves you the freedom of editing some config files by hand without 
having to worry about some tool messing it up. I think if I could get Ark 
running I would enjoy it more then FC because its based of RH, specialises on 
KDE and still doesn't overdue config tools like Mandrake does, I've also been 
looking at the LFS book online and it doesn't look that hard to build my own 
distro from scratch as long as I can also find some documentation on writing 
bootscripts.

Anyway I think I'm about ready to start playing with some more complicated 
distributions as long as it installs some sort of base system for me, I'm not 
too interested in Gentoo right now because its package management is done 
automatically by a tool, I've been considering going for a distribution that 
will leave package management all up to me although if Slackware's PKGtool 
isn't too much trouble I might try Slack. Right now I would like to find a 
light distro that comes with the essentials and from there I wand to build it 
up, unfortunately I have to have my desktop system running for school work 
now because my spring break is just about over so I won't be able to do 
anything like that :-( .

This is much more daring then I usually am, I'll have to think about it all 
for a while. If I do go ahead with the idea I know exactly what kind of 
distribution I want to make, for the time being I migth try making backups 
and updating my current FC install from source.

BTW. I've also been looking at the option of learning how to write my own 
config software, I've been talking to the folks on the Ark Linux irc channel 
and they indirectly said what sounded to me like I could contribute anything 
I wanted and after going over the code to make sure there are no bugs they 
might accept if it they like it.

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