Usability Pondering- Yum
by Ashok Gautham
When I use yum and install software, N is the default choice.
I feel that from usability perspective, yes should be the default
value. I wanted to know if there was any motive behind this
strange choice. Or was it that the developers of yum felt people
would use install instead of info or deplist?
(However, I do feel that no must the be default as it is for
removal of packages)
Also, I feel that for a system, one version of a package that has
been downloaded should be kept on the hard disk and could
be overwritten by the next release of the package. If a user
installs a package and then uninstalls it and finally reinstalls it,
he should not be redownloading the package. I find that only
the downloaded and yet-to-be-installed packages are present
in /var/cache/yum/*. The manpage of yum tells me that they are
not automatically removed. But I found them to be automatically
deleted after they have been installed(Fedora11)
On further probing, I found keepcache to be set to 0 in
/etc/yum.conf. This contradicts with the manpage.
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Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham
14 years, 10 months
Leonidas
by Kishore Bhargava
Hi! All,
Am surprised that the community is so quiet on the launch of a new
release. Fedora 11 is supposed to be great, I have not seen it yet and
am waiting to get hold of the media, but really guys, there should be
some fanfare at each release. The ambassadors need to ensure that some
noise is made in each city and that the media is made available. At
least IMHO. Whats the point of a thriving community if this is not done.
Cheers...Kishore
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14 years, 10 months
Re: [fedora-india] Leonidas
by Gaurav Prabhu
It would be good if you can collect them personally. Please quote how many you need, so I can tell you whether I can fulfil your request or not.
--- On Thu, 11/6/09, dilip khanolkar <dilipkhanolkar(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
From: dilip khanolkar <dilipkhanolkar(a)fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: [fedora-india] Leonidas
To: fedora-india(a)redhat.com
Date: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 7:08 AM
>Gaurav,
>i am too an ambassador for india/mumbai if you can please send in
>some medias would be really easy for me to distribute.
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Fedora 11 in VirtualBox
by Sameep
Hi ,
I tried installing F11 in VirtualBox [v 2.2] . Can't seem to install Guest
Additions. Has anyone else faced a similar problem. I checked on Google as
well , but I didn't anything that worked.
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Regards,
Sameep
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14 years, 10 months
Fedora 11 (Leonidas) Reigns
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
Fedora 11, the latest and greatest version is now available. New
features include,
* Ext4 as the default filesystem for better performance and scalability
* yum-presto plugin for downloading binary deltas reducing download
sizes by over 80% typically
* Smoother and flicker free graphical boot using Plymouth and kernel
mode setting
* Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3.0 pre-releases
* 20 second startup time
* Openchange for interoperability with Microsoft Exchange servers
* Desktop integration of multimedia codecs, fonts and more with
PackageKit, the graphical package manager in Fedora
* Nouveau as default Nvidia driver
* Better Fingerprint and Bluetooth support
* Several virtualization improvements including the latest KVM
* GNOME 2.26, KDE 4.2.3, Xfce 4.6, Linux Kernel 2.6.29
.. and more
Get it at http://get.fedoraproject.org
More details at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_tour
Rahul
14 years, 10 months
Re: [fedora-india] Leonidas
by Gaurav Prabhu
Hello,
How many media you require?I too am from Mumbai. I can only provide you with CD's only.Regards,Gaurav Prabhu__________________________________________________Website : http://www.linux.gauravlive.comFedora India Ambassador
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Sameep<sameepk(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>> I am planning to distribute medias in Mumbai but i just dont have any
>> media or the bandwidth to download FC11. If anyone can spare any
>> medias would be really better. For me to distribute them & get as many
>> systems upgraded as much as possible.
>>
>
>
> I have downloaded the both the Gnome and KDE versions. What do you need?
>
>
> Regards.
>
> Sameep
> [tuxwire.com]
>
>
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Re: [fedora-india] Leonidas
by Gaurav Prabhu
Hello,Who said the community is quiet. The members in person do contribute from their personal blogs, by mouth publicity etc. Also there are a number of meetings held during Launch known as Launch Parties in regions of the world.
Regards,Gaurav Prabhu_____________________Website : http://www.linux.gauravlive.comFedora India Ambassador--- On Thu, 11/6/09, Kishore Bhargava <kishore(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>>i! All,
>Am surprised that the community is so quiet on the launch of a new release.. Fedora >11 is supposed to be great, I have not seen it yet and am waiting to get hold of the >media, but really guys, there should be some fanfare at each release. The >ambassadors need to ensure that some noise is made in each city and that the media >is made available. At least IMHO. Whats the point of a thriving community if this is not >done.
Cheers...Kishore
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