[vox-tech] Installing a desktop upon my laptop

[Jonathan Stickel]

Jay Strauss wrote:
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>>
>>Other than an unusual bug when trying to dual boot winXP, I've been
>>impressed with Fedora Core 2.  Use apt-rpm type tools to maintain it,
>>and you should be happy.
> 
> 
> I'll download Fedora Core 2 tonight and try it.  When you say "apt-rpm
> type tools" do you mean tools that are like apt-rpm or the tools that
> come with apt-rpm?
> 

There are a couple variants, apt and yum to be specific.  I've only used 
apt-rpm, specifically the download from http://apt.freshrpms.net/, just 
because that was the first I tried, and it worked.  You'll want to 
expand your repository list, too.  A google search will bring up a 
number of them, but read their docs about which repositories are safe to 
mix so you don't end up with a broken system.  Also, I've read you can 
specify a repository list to use with up2date, should you choose to use 
that tool.  Lastly, check out synaptic as a gui rpm tool.

I actually use Gentoo myself, but I do a lot of Fedora installs for 
friends and at Installfests.

Jonathan