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This Week In Linux: Fedora 13 Alpha Gnome LiveCD First Look!
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Fedora is based on Red Hat (it uses RPMs for packages) where Ubuntu is based on Debian (it uses DEB files for packages).
Other than that there are a lot of similarities.
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I suppose RPM’s are as easy to install as DEB’s. Thanks for the response man, and I love your show. As a Linux newbie, I’m trying to learn any simple tips and tricks that I can to get a better grasp on the basics.
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RPMs are definitely just as easy to install as DEBs, it’s just a little different. if you use the terminal to install, with Ubuntu you’d type “sudo apt-get install PACKAGE”. with Fedora it’s “sudo yum install PACKAGE”. The package names are not always the same, but if nothing else you can type “yum search PACKAGE” and find it usually.
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I still back Fedora mainly because of the performance I get with Kdenlive and the lag I get on Ubuntu when I record with a USB mic.
There are definitely some bugs in the F13 alpha, like that bad sectors one. Hopefully they’ll take care of that before May.
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honestly, i really dont know why u still back fedora. if this is what the default install looks like i think i’m far far better off with ubuntu.
btw i think fedora will soon be the new 9.10, in the sense that it seems to have the same bugs. the bad sectors bug imo is a gift of the ext4 file system. never had such errors with ext3.
i think i will reinstall 10.04in ext3. frankly, i still cant spot any visible difference between ext3 and ext4.
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Do you give out “This Week In Linux” T’s? Donation?
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I actually set up a store through a 3rd party website. they print them on-demand and I can control the commission I get on them. haven’t got it quite where I want it yet though. When I do I’ll put a link on my website though.
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what fedora is a gang? jk,
yeah fedora is just a ubuntu clone
ubuntu is just a devian clone
with different wall papers and themes
common, devs consolidate and think twice!
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well, they all use Gnome. not exactly clones, just the same software. just like Kubuntu and Fedora KDE. not clones really, they just use the same desktop environments.
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loaded the live cd again, and it’s definitely Gnote. Definitely my mistake, thanks for catching that, librano!
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nitpicking FTW! haha
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The Fedora guys are very particular about what software they use… from a philosophical/ethical POV. I don’t think Chromium and its Google tracking code will make it into the default install.
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I had the same issue with the bad sectors message. I had the Windows 7 swap on that drive. Once I reinstalled both of my OS on the drive, the message went away. I don’t really believe it.
I’m actually debating over Fed 13 and U 10.04 … Fedora seems a bit quicker, but Ubuntu is more widely used … I will have some thinking to do this Spring,
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Hmm. now that I think about it, I haven’t formatted my /home partition in a while. it’s entirely possible that I do actually have that many bad sectors. I’ll have to try to load the liveCD on my desktop and see if it happens there too.
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Hmmm… Fedora is Red Hat, who was around about 10 years before Ubuntu. Are you really this stupid?
Fedora isn’t anything like Ubuntu, except that it’s Linux and uses Gnome by default. And, BTW, guess who’s doing the most development in Linux? You guessed it: Red Hat Linux, which is Fedora.
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pwd!
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pwd? /home/ThisWeekInLinux/Fedora13AlphaVideo ?
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The Fedora 13 background is very nice? Ubuntu 10.04 or Fedora 13? hmmm
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@djwela yeah, there’s definitely some neat artwork in Fedora (even in Fedora 12).
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Your pants are awesome! Keep up the epic vids pal
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@VueltaAlPasado My pants? Thanks, I think?
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@thisweekinlinux btw, look at your comment board, in your channel.
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@djwela fedora 13, yum install FTW
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arghhh fuck it…. i’m gonna try out Fedora 12…. i’ve never really given Fedora a good run before but i’ve used just about every other popular distro for quite a long period of time…. wish me luck… kaboom!
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@kaddy01980 Good luck! Fedora 12 is a great distro that I’ve been running for a few months now, and the beta for Fedora 13 comes out today!
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