[ccoss] Re: woohoo! first post!

It looks like I have some choices to make about installing and upgrading 
software. There are some choices of window managers and distributions. I 
took a look at the Fedora project. Right now I'm reading about encrypted 
email.

dave wrote:

>Christopher Paulin wrote:
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>>Pete Santoro likes XFce, http://www.xfce.org/. I use KDE.
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>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).
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>>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.
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>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.
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>Oh ok, good point. Debian throws everything in /etc. So maybe /etc and 
>/usr/local/etc then.
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>dave
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