carl0s Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 Fedora 9 uses the latest X.org server, for which apparently there are no proprietary/binary nVidia or ATI drivers yet. Just so you know.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 Fedora 9 uses the latest X.org server, for which apparently there are no proprietary/binary nVidia or ATI drivers yet. Just so you know.. Hmmm, won't be an issue on my own laptop (runs a crap 915 chipset), but does put the stoppers on the work laptop which is an ATI.. Thanks for the head's up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 Hmmm, won't be an issue on my own laptop (runs a crap 915 chipset), but does put the stoppers on the work laptop which is an ATI.. Thanks for the head's up... No worries. Don't take my word as gospel, but that's what was said in #fedora a minute ago. Google says some people installed them by downgrading X and other stuff, but reports of broken opengl after doing so make me think it's better to wait a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted May 16, 2008 Author Share Posted May 16, 2008 I've been hearing some tales of woe even just installing Fed9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted May 16, 2008 Author Share Posted May 16, 2008 Yet another question. Updates in Linux. There's loads every day. Does Ubuntu only tell me about the ones I need or is it up to me to decide which are applicable and which aren't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 Yet another question. Updates in Linux. There's loads every day. Does Ubuntu only tell me about the ones I need or is it up to me to decide which are applicable and which aren't? There shouldn't be loads every day. There'll certainly be quite a few after first installing but I only get a handfull of updates every few days or so. Maybe there are more frequent updates for the Gnome desktop though. Just let it install all the ones it comes up with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 Fedora 9 install was rather seemless.. went straight in and everything appears to have worked (including the infamous wireless)... Fedora being a stubborn one with codecs was a slight stumble, but found a brilliant guide for those want to play with Fedora 9 http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/103/26/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 FYI (you probably already know). The nVidia drivers released on 28th May now have 'preliminary' support for X 1.4.99 (1.5 pre release that Fedora 9 has). The guys on #fedora say livna takes care of it all perfectly, and that's it's really good Now that I have made my raid5 configuration more normal (it was a bit weird/wrong), I'm gonna try the upgrade again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted June 15, 2008 Author Share Posted June 15, 2008 UPDATE: Not that anyone is interested but I've just finally gotten rid of Windows. I had a 250gb drive with Vista on it that hasn't been touched for weeks and when it was it was only to play FEAR. So, I installed the 32-bit version of Ubuntu over it. I'd heard that it was much more usable and more widely supported than the 64-bit version I initially installed. So far that seems to be the case. I can now watch videos on the Evo site which I just couldn't get Ubuntu 64 to do. Mind you, it took a few hours to get everything back to the level I had on my 64bit version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJButler Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Anybody else tried Knoppix, i think its Debian based. Worked on a CD trial run disc on my works laptop, even detected the wireless card and logged me on to the Hotel wireless networking. Ver 5.3 is around if you Google it. Will give it a proper go when i get time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBDJ Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Knoppix have always produced good Live CDs. Not really popular as a production distro tho? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Fedora 10 was released about 10 minutes ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Fedora 10 was released about 10 minutes ago. Will check it out, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Will check it out, thanks I have gone out, but it should be downloaded when I get back :)The vexs.net mirror is fast, ukms one isn't. http://mirrors.vexs.net/pub/fedora/linux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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