Re: [LUG] Fedora

[Kelly Jones <kellyjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am running VMWare 4.5.2 under FC3 but read the release notes (as if you wouldn't!) as there are some changes that have to be made.



On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 10:04 +0000, Rob Beard wrote:
> Quoting Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Hi Guys
> > 
> > Having obtained a new computer I now want to use it to backup files 
> > downloaded from the net (i.e. web pages) and also to backup OS X files. 
> > I am used to building RH 9.0 servers and that was what I was going to 
> > turn to.... but of course it is old and RH are no longer issuing 
> > updates. So is it worth going down the Fedora road and installing that? 
> > Is it very like RH in its use?
> > 
> > Or is there a different distro worth using? My difficulty is that I 
> > would like to get this up and running quickly and not have to have to 
> > steep a learning curve. i.e. at this point I want to avoid Debian but 
> > there again, I might not!
> > 
> > Any advice gladly accepted. Thanks.
> > 
>
> My experience of Fedora was a positive one.  The interface seems to be the 
> same (although it is a while since I used RH9) and from what I can tell it 
> seems to be supported better than a couple of distros I have tried recently.
>
> I'm going to have a play with Fedora later on this evening, I'm still trying 
> to get vmware working, I've tried Suse 9.1 (didn't work particually well), 
> CentOS 3.3 x86_64 version and I couldn't get the libraries, so I'm hoping 
> Fedora will do the job.
>
> I think tho there are some more people in the group who have better experience 
> of it than I have.
>
> Rob
>
>
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Kelly Jones

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