Originally posted by: Robor
I'm not doing it for work but there are several developers and engineers who use Fedora Core 4 there. Ubuntu was pretty straight forward to install and it launched the update on the initial bootup so I'm all updated (or at least Ubuntu told me I was).
Ubuntu came with Firefox 1.07 installed and I wanted to install 1.5 so I looked for it in the Synaptic Package Manager. I couldn't find it in there (only 1.07 and earlier) so I went to GetFirefox.com. I found it there and downloaded/extracted it but that's where I got stuck. What do I do to start the install process? I tried 'opening' a few of the files that were identified as "executable" but none of them performed like a Windows .exe or .msi file. It was late so I put it away for the night. I just got a point in the right direction from another AnandTech member. He said I have to compile it. I'll give that a try later tonight.
Some other things I want to figure out... How to put shortcuts on the desktop to commonly used things. How to show the Trash bin on the desktop. How to play a wmv, avi, etc. I tried and got a codec error.
as for me when it came to firefox on Fedora COre 4 I just went
here
and clicked that link that says
firefox-1.5-0.fc4.i386.rpm FC4 automatically asked me if I wanted to install it, I said yes and voila I got the newest version of forefox up and running, the major advantage of FC4 IMHO is that you don't have to compile things from source, you don't have to always rely on a package manager, you can grab an RPM file off an app such as firefox (since it comes with all the files that it needs bundled with it) and install it on the spot without waiting for a certain repo to have it available so you can get ti theought APT or whatever else you might be using. Also in FC4 or any other distro you most probably want to run Adobe reader so you go
here for instance and get it installed immediatly, or maybe if your thinkpad is like mine and it comes with mostly intel hardware, then you would for example go to the intel
Linux drivers site and maybe install drivers for your 2200BG, now alot will argue that most of the stuff that I mentioned could be available in a repo for ubuntu or something like that, but that's ok, the problem is that when something isn't available in a certain repo and you have it on a media of some type or you downloaded it from some site then it's nice to be able to install it independantley that's all.
Also FC4 is so much easier to maintain for the person new to Linxu has a nice big support base and has a nice package installer with plenty of repos , also has a nice company pushing iot forward (Redhat, though no official support from them but they are financing it from under and supplying programmers that work for them)
And if you find those differences enough for you to switch to Fedora Core 4 then here is the link to it :
Link
ot if your happy with what you have then enjoy Ubuntu :beer:
Just me 2 cents
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