Episode 67 - Fedora 7

[Chess]

In this episode: a discussion of the history and background of the Fedora Project and a review of its newest release, Fedora 7, including a talk about some of its cool new technologies like Xen and Revisor; a mention of some great Fedora sites, such as the Fedora Forum, the Fedora FAQ, and third party repositories such as DAG, FreshRPMS, and Livna, and some reviews of Fedora such this; audio Listener Tip on gnome-open; audio and email listener feedback.

http://www.linuxreality.com/podcast/episode-67-fedora-7/

[adder1972]

I've tried F7 in my VirtualBox on my PC (I'm stuck with a PC while I am in Canada).  It seems really nice.  I think I will have one linux-box running F7 when I get back home.  After listening to LR ep.67, I am really looking forward to trying it on a real machine.

Thanks again for a great show, Chess.


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[Deinumite]

It always freezes when editing the bootloader on my vitural box hahaha

great show tho, i was wondering what fedora used for package managment....ive grown fond of apt-get and aptitude, because ive only used Ubuntu

i usually use command line to install over GUI, but now that i know how fedoras package managers work i might try it out instead of Ubuntu soon....

keep up the good work!

[fishfreek]

A case of dejavu for me.  I just put the Fedora 7 install DVD in the wifes computer and came down to my system to launch Itunes to get todays podcast downloads and what do I find.  A Fedora 7 episode...

HAHA..

Anyway I dont know if it was mentioned in the podcast yet but I have Fedora 6 using YUM for package management.  I have used Fedora since the first release as a webserver and have used YUM to upgrade from FC1 all the way up to FC4.  At that point I got a new server.  Upgrading like that with no access to the box if something should go wrong is quite the nerve racking experience.

Anyway I look forward to listening to this.

[Datalanche]

I used Fedora a few years ago after I got tired of Mandrake breaking just a bit too much when I was playing around. I used Fedora Core 3 and it was fairly nice. I still wasn't neck deep in Linux like I am now, but I did start using FreshRPM's and using it as an actual desktop instead of just booting in for five minutes, looking around, then going back to Windows. I'd probably still be with it if (K)Ubuntu hadn't exploded onto the scene. Still use it at work though. Our email box runs Fedora Core 2, and has never given us an ounce of trouble ever.

I'll have to check this out in a virtual machine, at least. Maybe after I am done playing with PC-BSD.

[Chad]

I don't mean to be rude, but YUM means:

Yellow Dog
Updater
Modified

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

[Chess]

yeah, I couldn't remember off the top of my head.  :-)

[Claudio]

Yeah I remember that it was Yellow Dog Linux that used yum before Red Hat did.  They then incorporated it.

Thanks again for a great episode, Chess.  I've not been a Red Hat/Fedora user for quite a while (I tried FC4 once for kicks but that was it), but I might give this one a shot.

[diazamet]

Chess, just a minor correction;

You said SELinux was created by RedHat when in fact it was a bunch of kernel patches created by the NSA.

http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/

Otherwise, great show!

[addison13248]

I installed Fedora 7 on my MacBook Pro, it runs very fast, still working on getting a rick click button mouse that works. The wireless doesn't work right out of the box, still working on that. To install use boot camp to create the partition, and then shut down the computer. Turning the computer on hold down the alt/option key until the mouse pointer appears. A cd  icon and it says windows under it. Click on that to start the installation process. You need to install the boot manager, the first time I tried, when I went to boot Fedora, it said: "missing operation system."  So if now if you want to boot in to Mac OS X, you have to hold down the alt/option key, and select the name of your hard drive, where OS X is located.

[Claudio]

I installed Fedora 7 on my MacBook Pro, it runs very fast, still working on getting a rick click button mouse that works. The wireless doesn't work right out of the box, still working on that. To install use boot camp to create the partition, and then shut down the computer. Turning the computer on hold down the alt/option key until the mouse pointer appears. A cd  icon and it says windows under it. Click on that to start the installation process. You need to install the boot manager, the first time I tried, when I went to boot Fedora, it said: "missing operation system."  So if now if you want to boot in to Mac OS X, you have to hold down the alt/option key, and select the name of your hard drive, where OS X is located.

I think you need the madwifi drivers for the wireless since it's using an Atheros chipset now.  As for the right click, if you install mouseemu from the repository you can configure your MacBook Pro to use Control-click like in OS X as opposed to the F-key (which I hate).

[thelastknowngod]

ive been pretty out of the whole mac world since getting into linux but this is just supprising. why would they be using atheros chipsets with intel? why not just use ipw?

[Claudio]

ive been pretty out of the whole mac world since getting into linux but this is just supprising. why would they be using atheros chipsets with intel? why not just use ipw?

Not sure....I remember that the pre Santa Rosa models had the Intel wireless chipset.  Don't know why they made the change.

[addison13248]

I bought this a month before they released the Santa Rose MacBook Pros. I haven't gotten the desktop effects to work yet.

[ameurux]

Great Job Chess , well done, keep up the good work.

happy to hear that Fedora Team corrected the slow install/update speed, because that was one of the things that pushed away from using Fedora ... oooh man it was so slow... Good news now.