>>I just upgraded Linux Fedora 3 to Fedora 5.
>>
>> I am so happy. Another nail in the coffin of my Windows
>> computer. My Panasonic/Leica digital camera now works
>> with Red Hat Fedora 5. No more extra steps getting pictures
>> into the newsletter files. Just plug it into the USB port.
>>
>> They also added a nice feature. You can verify the accuracy
>> of the DVD installation disks before you use it to upgrade.
>>
>> $50 bucks with a big thick book. 1060 pages of stuff
>> way more than you will ever need to know.
>>
>> Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
>
> After the copyright/sue scare the price went to over $1,000. When
> did
> the price come back down from the stratosphere?
>
> Is the $50 version supported with automatic downloads - upgrades -
> fixes? Fedora 1 wasn't and you were pretty much on your own. Some
> stuff didn't work and I was spending lots of time trying to find the
> appropriate fix, compiling, installing, etc. I don't like Windoze
> and
> Gates, especially Gates, but I want to do something besides
> software.
> I spent almost 30 years doing software and now I want to do
> something
> else.
>
> Doc Custer
> Retired software engineer and sometime Audiologist
> Building RV9-A. Fuselage
>
> I bought the book in Borders book store. Came with a DVD
> and two CD. The second CD had over 1000 programs in
> rpm format. No nothing other than a vast amount of support
> on the Internet. We have a couple of good Linux
> gurus on this list.
>
> There is always some program that does not
> work on an upgrade but they are getting better every version.
> More and more new hardware is getting direct support.
> I have been using xpaint for years and now it is
> suddenly busted but apparently I just have to recompile it.
> Blake sent me a step by step. Thanks Blake.
>
> extract the files
>    "tar -jxvf xpaint-2.7.8.1.tar.bz2"
> change into the source directory
>    "cd xpaint-2.7.8.1"
> run the configure script
>    "./configure"
> compile the code
>     "make"
> install the binaries "as the root user"
>     "make install"
> clean up the source and package
> "cd ../"
> "rm -rf xpaint-2.7.8.1*"
>
> I know how you feel. I programed in asm for about 15 years
> and got burned out.
>
> Each upgrade RH Fedora is getting more and more painless.
> I can't imagine it getting better than this.
> I have been using Linux for seven or eight years now.
>
> If you want some real hassle upgrade the hardware
> in your Windows xp computer. If you put in a larger
> HD and try to re-install from the original xp disk
> your computer will crash within 30 days unless you get
> permission from Bill Gates again. Good luck if you need a
> new mother board. When you buy xp you need to get
> permission from Bill Gates to run it. After you get
> permission he puts your exact computer configuration
> in his data base along with your name and address.
>
> Paul Lamar
>

<snip>
Which book? I searched Amazon.com and found a bunch, most with 2 CDs.
I have been burned so often by the blurbs on the cover(s) that I value
a user's input, particularly yours.

I had to replace the motherboard on one of our computers running XP.
When I called MS on the phone, they asked if it was running on another
computer. I told them no, I had to replace the motherboard. They gave
me the right code with no more hassle. Took maybe 5 or 10 minutes. I
still don't like Windoze and Gates, but in all fairness this was
relatively painless. Thanks for the long article on what is being sent
to MS, and how it is encoded.

Rhino arrived today. So the long process of learning how to use it
begins. I worked through the first section this evening. As an
ex-computer graphics programmer, I am delighted at its capabilities --
this stuff is soooo hard to do, although object oriented programming
helps enormously.

Doc Custer
Retired software engineer and sometime Audiologist
Building RV9-A. Fuselage


It is called Fedora 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
by Chris Negus  Wiley  ISBN 13-978-0-471-75491-6
Copyright 2006 $49.99 US
--
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Linux dudes,
  Linux tech books, online pdf and free: "http://www.linux-books.us/".
I have FC4 at home and the "up2date" utility is broken, but "yum"
works. "yum" is a utility that uses the same repositories that up2date
would have used, but it works.....

  Yum setup :"http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware"
That also includes instructions to set up a repository called "livna"
that has all the stuff for video and audio that fedora excludes
because of they are patent encumbered. (video codecs, audio codecs,
dvd decrypter, ...). The section "Configuring Yum" is what you need to
do.
  Livna also supports the ATI and NVidia video drivers.

  "yum update" will update all packages on your machine that are
supported by FC.
Blake