Yet another unofficial Fedora Core 2 Guide for Beginners has been uploaded here.
Unofficial Fedora Core 2 Guide for Beginners
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I am going to try that. I could never get mplayer to play proprietary codecs.
Well with FC1 all you had to do was install divx from yum but I don’t know if they’re in the repo’s yet for FC2. You could always go to http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ and download what you want, throw them in /usr/lib/win32/
Bitterman the bit you said “throw them in /usr/lib/win32/” never worked for me.
I have always used yum and the livna repository with FC1.
But when I put the win32codecs in the correct location they wouldn’t work.
Anyway I am hopeful that if I follow exact instruction that it will work.
First lesson!. “Don’t try to dual boot with Windows XP”!
You probably should learn to do things the “Fedora Core” way before you write a guide. Not very well laid out, information is dodgy at best! There are much better sites on the `net!
As a guide for new users what’s with doing everything as root?
Well tux2furious is doing his best.
I first found out about it here.
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=18974#pos…
What Fedora really needs is a documentation comparable to FreeBSD Handbook. 100+ unofficial guides floating around the net is unimpressive.
Handbook has sections on Flash, Java applet, MP3 encoding, MPlayer, Donkey P2P, you name it. In a much friendly language, detailing each step, not succession of random commands. Try harder, Fedora.
This is a very good guide and has helped me get FC2 up and running better than I could do on my own. Because the author is a new user like me, the information is given in an easy to understand method which I prefer. I’ve read other guides that have been writted by ‘experts’ and they are overly complicated.
Granted this is not the best guide, but from a novices point of view, it’s very good.
I installed the codecs using RPMs I got from a Linux Format cover CD. I’ve no idea where they got these from, any ideas?
Last section of the document:
How to associate “.sh” files (shell scripts), when double click will execute?
Dare to predict how soon we will see shell script worms? They are very easy to write, and they are very powerful- that’s the beauty of UNIX shells.
.rmp double click autostart is very promising, too. Just yesterday I received an email saying “Want more porn? Install this browser and get instant access to…”
Now, tell me that no people would double click on rpm and get that stuff installed.
In fact, I don’t even know if one I received was for Linux or Windows- I deleted it before I checked attachment type.
The wording was strange for Windows- worms usually do not ask to install anything when it is for Windows.
I might miss one of Linux worms. Well, no problem- not the last.
Other than that (i.e., the fact that you recommend FC users, Beginners as you say, to enable Fedora in very dangerous worm-friendly way)- the Guide is useful and I’ll keep its URL in my Favorites.
No, really: if you are saying it is for Beginners- make sure you don’t give them the rope to hang themselves.
“.rmp double click autostart is very promising” meaning “.rpm double click autostart is very promising”
What Fedora really needs is a documentation comparable to FreeBSD Handbook. 100+ unofficial guides floating around the net is unimpressive.
Handbook has sections on Flash, Java applet, MP3 encoding, MPlayer, Donkey P2P, you name it. In a much friendly language, detailing each step, not succession of random commands. Try harder, Fedora.
OK you name some specific programs. It is usually up to that project to include documention, and they usually do. As for the general process of doing something with the computer (eg. mp3 encoding), I think the internet is a far better place for documenting that. There are basically an unlimited number of things you could cover.
The thing is, most people don’t want to read any documentation. And for basic things like mp3 encoding, playing movies, filesharing, plaing movies, etc. they don’t have to.
I hate to invoke a flamewar, but FreeBSD users are on increasingly thin ice when poo pooing Linux these days.
I hate to invoke a flamewar, but FreeBSD users are on increasingly thin ice when poo pooing Linux these days.
Maybe, but not on documentation. It seems surprising that Redhat (in their unofficial support) can’t spare one person for a few months to write a good handbook. Maybe’s that’s the ‘value-add’ you get when you buy their enterprise stuff.
Anyone been able to get this to work with ms virtual pc 2004? I kept getting a fatal error (reported by virtual pc), causing the virtual machine to need to restart while anaconda loads.
“Maybe, but not on documentation. It seems surprising that Redhat (in their unofficial support) can’t spare one person for a few months to write a good handbook. Maybe’s that’s the ‘value-add’ you get when you buy their enterprise stuff. ”
as someone involved in fedora docs project i can tell you thats not the problem. fedoranews.org has very large amount of docs but documenting good things in docbook sgml format is not something easy to do. besides linking to stuff like mp3 and win32 codecs can very effectively invoke the dmca in US. its not a pretty position to be in.
there a lot of people who have volunteered to be editors and helpers but the amount of people who actually want to go thru the documentation process is pretty low. well of course you are free to help. i will be sending out mails in the mailing list as soon as i get some stuff ready. there is a recent interest in documenting stuff. time will tell
Red Hat does have people who work on doc’s try this page:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/
Lots of stuff there but it is for professionals, students, etc not a multimedia how-to.
All the info to pass an RHCE exam is on that page so It must explain a thing or two as difficult as that test is.
Suse has Yast, Fedora now Yauf.
install fedora 2…
http://dag.wieers.com
install apt
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade…
VOILA
ur system is upgraded