More fun from the leading edge
More fun from the leading edge
Posted Nov 22, 2006 17:38 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1)Parent article: Notes from the leading edge
It seems somehow appropriate that, after putting LWN out for the week, I updated to current Rawhide and haven't had a working X server since. It's interesting times in that part of the world...
Posted Nov 22, 2006 18:20 UTC (Wed)
by thoffman (guest, #3063)
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I've been a happy convert since I switched from Fedora Core 5 to Dapper Drake, although I have not had opportunity to try the 64 bit versions.
As you point out in your article, package management is important, and the best thing in my experience with Ubuntu is the package management!
Synaptic and apt-get really are much, much better than Yum and rpm, in my experience. Many other things "just work" better and I spend much less time admin'ing and more time getting real work done.
Posted Nov 22, 2006 19:32 UTC (Wed)
by corbet (editor, #1)
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Posted Nov 22, 2006 21:05 UTC (Wed)
by tjc (guest, #137)
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Posted Nov 24, 2006 21:55 UTC (Fri)
by verdurin (subscriber, #36233)
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Posted Nov 25, 2006 0:16 UTC (Sat)
by corbet (editor, #1)
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Something I've wanted to do for a long time is to have an LWN "weather report" for volatile distributions and projects. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to tune in and see what storms you'll encounter before updating to the current version? Unfortunately, we don't have the time to do that now.
Posted Nov 23, 2006 11:35 UTC (Thu)
by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
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I forget what the bugzilla number is, but just install the libXfont packages from Fedora Core 6.
Forgive me for asking an obvious question, but have you considered switching to a 64-bit version of Ubuntu?More fun from the leading edge
I have Ubuntu on another system, don't worry. But, then, the edginess of early Edgy forced me into a complete reinstall there. If you play on the leading edge, these things happen.
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If you play on the leading edge, these things happen.
I hold back on updates for a few days on my Debian unstable system any time there are major changes to X or glibc, etc.. If there's a major problem, it will be noted almost immediately on the mailing list. This has saved me from major X problems on one occasion, and a few other minor things as well.
In that case, why complain so much about Rawhide?Did you forget it was the "leading edge"?
Was I complaining about Rawhide? Or remarking on the current state of the Rawhide experience? I have no complaints about my experiences with any of the development distributions I have run - or development kernels, for that matter. I know what game I'm playing. But that doesn't mean that no words can be said.
Did you forget it was the "leading edge"?
X not working in Fedora rawhide?