Vakkotaur

( More Linux stuff )

And now to get away from things for a while. A trip to Sioux Falls is in order, for comics, for supper, and to see some friends and a show. Any more computery stuff can wait til tomorrow.

Last night I finally got around to installing Fedora Core 4 on belgian. It didn't go perfectly smoothly as there was trouble early in the first attempt, but that didn't become a big hassle. Fedora Core 4 is up and running. I'm not nearly done tweaking things to be just so.

So far it's been mostly a matter of look-and-feel, but I did get Opera and NEdit installed though not nearly set up as I'd like yet. This afternoon (which I'm taking off from work, though not just for this) I'll see what I need to do to get Fedora to see the FireWire drive and then I can restore things from my backup. The trick will be to not restore some things, such as KDE settings. It shouldn't be too difficult to get that right. I also need to learn a bit more about the tool named yum which in my very limited experience so far already has impressed me far more than urpmi ever has.

I don't yet know if the version of xchat (2.4.3) supplied is stable regarding DCC after running for a few hours. I'll find out this afternoon. If it is, I see no reason try to upgrade. If not, there is an xchat 2.6.0 rpm for Fedora Core 4.

Other than the usual need to adjust colors and styles and such, there's only one real weirdness. If I move the pointer to a desktop icon, when it change from an arrow to a hand to indicate a clickable icon, the hand also appears elsewhere on the screen for a moment. That's a concern, but not a big one. I so seldom use desktop icons it might not be a real issue for me.

So far, I'm fairly impressed with Fedora.