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philo wrote:
> After a ton of experimenting I got a sytem working to my liking

What is the hardware?

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philo wrote:
> "Mike Easter"
>> philo wrote:
>>> After a ton of experimenting I got a sytem working to my liking
>>
>> What is the hardware?
>>
>
> My card is a geForce 8400gs.

As an example of Ubuntu as a distribution, here are the nvidia cards
recognized by Ub 8.04 (2008 April)

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree8...E/appendix-a.h
tml Appendix A. Supported NVIDIA GPU Products -

NVIDIA GPU product Device -- PCI ID
GeForce 8400 GS -- 0x0422


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philo illuminated 24hoursupport.helpdesk by typing:
> <snip>
> What's really nice about Fedora Core is Yum

It's come on leaps and bounds. However, yum is a still a very poor
relation to apt and synaptic on Debian based distros.

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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:35:11 +0000, Moog wrote:

> philo illuminated 24hoursupport.helpdesk by typing:
>> <snip>
>> What's really nice about Fedora Core is Yum
>
> It's come on leaps and bounds. However, yum is a still a very poor
> relation to apt and synaptic on Debian based distros.

Yes, I much prefer apt or synaptic. When I moved from SuSE a few years ago,
I found them *very* easy to use.

philo illuminated 24hoursupport.helpdesk by typing:
>
> "Moog" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> philo illuminated 24hoursupport.helpdesk by typing:
>>> <snip>
>>> What's really nice about Fedora Core is Yum
>>
>> It's come on leaps and bounds. However, yum is a still a very poor
>> relation to apt and synaptic on Debian based distros.
>>
>
>
> Well, here is the deal...
>
> when I first started out with Linux I used MC (Midnight Commander)
> for my cli manager.
> For those who have not used Linux but are familiar with dos...it's like
> "dosshell"
>
> With Fedora, I put it in as simple as yum mc
>
> Though I really liked Debian apt-get mc had no results.

Eh? Works perfectly in both Ubuntu and Debian here!

> sure I could have installed it manually...or searched for other repositories
> but thus far "yum" has worked well for me

You didn't need to.

A simple
# apt-get install mc
would have done it.

Oh. I see. You did "apt-get mc" You didn't tell apt what to do.
First port of call would be
man apt

In fact, I'm surprised
# yum mc
did anything too.

The correct syntax would be
# yum install mc

HTH.

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philo wrote:

> NVidia is quite good on writing Linux drivers...
> and they even have a script for compling a new kernel.
>
"It's not compiling a kernel, just preparing the headers" as DKMS tells.
Actually does a
- make mrpoper (clean),
- make oldconfig (to fetch current .config from /proc/config.gz or /boot)
- make prepare (to generate headers)
- make mrproper once more

Of course, it needs a configured kernel-source or -devel package.

> Good for them
>
> and good for Fedora!

Still with Mandriva (@home and also @w0rkplace)

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:08:04 -0600, philo wrote:

> What's really nice about Fedora Core is Yum
>

And urpmi in Mandriva and apt-get in Ubuntu.

> Whatever I've needed was as simple as just entering Yum wine
>
> for example
>
> and within a few minutes wine was installed

A few minutes? that's slow.

urpmi wine in Mdv and apt-get wine work just as well.



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