[ccoss] Re: woohoo! first post!
- From: Christopher Paulin <cpaulin@xxxxxxx>
- To: ccoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:12:57 -0500
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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