[CS-FSLUG] Fedora core 1

[Chris Brault]

Well,

> 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.

Get K3B using synaptic/apt and then check out the
menu. Plus, check out "MusicMan" on freshmeat.net. 

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> I can't get RH to mount my 
> NTFS Windows partition either but I do like the more
> manual approach it has.

It isn't enabled by default. Get the 2.6 kernel then
you can compile NTFS support into it. That's what I
did.

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> 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. 

This is my favorite part too. Nice middle of the road
distro. It's not Slack, but it's not Lindows.

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> 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.

I've made more than one LFS distro. They are cool.
Just follow the directions and you'll be ok.

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> 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 :-( .

Experiment after the semester is out. 

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> 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.

Interesting, but ... interesting...

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> 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.

It is a great way to learn real life coding too.


	
		
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