[TriLUG] fedora 2 core or wait on fedora 3

Ralph Blach rcblach at blach.dnsalias.org
Sun Sep 26 12:06:08 EDT 2004


Jason,

Thanks, then its not reliable enough for me.

I just stick with redhat 9.0 or redhat fedora 3

Chip

Jason White wrote:

>* Gregory Woodbury (ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us) [040923 02:35]:
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>>On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:28:16PM -0400, Ralph Blach wrote:
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>>>What about a usb keyboard and mouse?
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>>>Chip
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>>Right now I don't recall to clearly, but there were some problems with
>>installing with USB mice.  If you can temporarily use ps/2 devices for
>>the install and get all the updates, they should work thereafter.
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>I use a external USB mouse/keyboard with my thinkpad, and they
>generally work fine.  Every third reboot or so, the USB keyboard
>doesn't work, but if I unplug it for a few seconds, and then plug it
>back in, it's fine.  
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>The biggest problem I have with FC2 is nautilus getting in the way of
>SMB and NFS mounts, and locking the machine hard.  There is a
>workaround by using "killall -STOP nautilus; <mount your drive>;
>killall -CONT nautilus", but it doesn't always work.  The better
>workaround is to use a different window manager, like I'm doing with
>enlightenment.  :)
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>(FC2 running 2.6.8-1.521)
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>Jason
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