[ccoss] Re: woohoo! first post!


Christopher Paulin wrote:

> 
> Pete Santoro likes XFce, http://www.xfce.org/. I use KDE.
> 

The latest version of XFce does look very nice. KDE is pretty sweet as 
well, they've done some cool stuff as of late (desktop sharing, user 
switching, desktop lockdown for kiosk-type setups).

> I see. So you can't just pick up any source package and install it with 
> the program. The people at Innovation Software Group 
> (http://www.innovationsw.com/) where the SCOSUG (http://www.scosug.org) 
> meetings are held create their own source rpms. Bill Rivet, who wasn't 
> at the last meeting, suggested changing the make file to put in some 
> uninstall code into it.
> 

Ummm, not that I could tell. Maybe Pete could shed some light on that 
when he signs up. Admittedly, I didn't use it extensively. Before long, 
Fedora was released and I installed that on my extra machine to check it 
out. Like I said at the meeting, I'm a distribution junkie, hehehe.

> 
>>Chris, do you have a separate /home partition? I've done reinstalls 
>>where I've just grabbed all of /etc (for configs) and reinstalled, being 
>>careful to NOT touch the /home partition. Once installed, I just 
>>untarred my /etc over the new one and all was well.
>>
> 
> 
> I think I have mysql files also, which aren't in /etc. I don't have a 
> separate /home partition. That limits the space in home. I could do it 
> that way or copy my data to my desktop during the upgrade. I'm not 
> working on that right now, so I'll see what happens when I do.

Oh ok, good point. Debian throws everything in /etc. So maybe /etc and 
/usr/local/etc then.

dave

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