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Attempting to install Fedora 10 KDE 64bit version…

09 Dec

In a moment of weakness, I decided to see what distributions were out there that came with KDE 4.1.x. I’d prefer KDE 4.2, but the only distro I saw that had 4.2 was OpenSuse, and I’m not comfortable going there. After hunting around a bit, I decided to give Fedora a home on my hard drive.

My hard drive is laid out like so:

sda1: Windows Vista (NTFS)

sda2: Mepis 8 rc2 (fully updated) (ext3)

sda3: /home (ext3)

sda5: Fedora 10 (ext3)

Once Fedora was installed, I could not boot in as a normal user until I  disabled selinux.

Then there were no packages shown in KPackagekit, so to add Firefox or synaptic I had to “yum install firefox” in a terminal (after su command and password). Then I did “yum install synaptic.” Synaptic, however fails to start. Fishing around a bit told me that there were no repositories listed in /etc/apt.conf. Where am I going to find out what repositories to use? Going to have to look into that.

My next issue was that Fedora made Mepis unbootable, and I had to restore grub with Mepis 8. Once grub was restored, I could not write to Mepis 8’s /home/les, making it unusable. Then, restoring write permissions to /home/les/ in Mepis 8 with the chown and chmod commands  made Fedora 10 unbootable, due to “no write access to knotifyrc” or something like that.

I think I need to install Fedora on a partition that is big enough to contain its own /home. I’d really like to give it a chance… it looks great, but without the ability to add and remove software with either Kpackagekit or Synaptic, what good is it? I can’t get to OpenOffice (yum reports no such package: openoffice, openoffice.org, etc.)

Well, I have to work two twelve hour shifts between now and 6am Thursday. I probably won’t be playing with Fedora 10 before Thursday night.



Posted by eyemeansit on December 9, 2008 in Uncategorized

Tags: Fedora 10, grub, KDE 4.1.x, KDE 4.2, Kpackagekit, Mepis 8, selinux, Synaptic, yum

A film like no other…

07 Dec

I spend very little time and effort in keeping up with cinema, but I happened across a film recently that has really captured my attention. I am speaking of “The Fall” by director Tarsem Singh. This film is a real treat for those who are students of visual art. I must warn that there are some gruesome bloody images, particularly toward the end, which are likely the cause for the “R” rating. However, in the context of the story, and the movie as a whole, they are less disturbing than many things seen on prime time TV nightly.

There are two things I see that make this a remarkable film. First is the fantastic cinematography. Nearly every scene is a visual treat. The locations made me keep asking “are there really places in the world that look like that?” The director has a great eye for beautiful, striking landscapes and architecture, and skilfully uses them to tell his story.

The other great thing about this film is the child actress Catinca Untaru, and the director’s skilful handling of this little gem. She doesn’t appear to be acting at all, but living.

One other feature that I have appreciated is being introduced to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major, opus 92/II. Allegretto. This piece is featured in the opening train bridge/rescue scene, and also during the final credits. (It may have been used in other portions of the film, but I apparently was distracted by the visuals, the dialog and the story).

This is one film I would like to own. I expect I will be seeing it again. You can see the trailer on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_fViqt0h0A

Now, just for those who were expecting something Linux related, this DVD plays very nicely on Mepis 8. I used the ALT-F2 command and typed in “gmplayer.” It looks great in full screen on my 20″ wide screen LCD.


Posted by eyemeansit on December 7, 2008 in Uncategorized

Tags: cinema, cinematography, gmplayer, Linux, Mepis 8, Tarsem Singh, The Fall

Minimize Thunderbird to System Tray in Mepis 8


Thanks to Techthrob fo r this tip!


Posted by eyemeansit on October 22, 2008 in Uncategorized

Mepis 8 screenshot

18 Oct 


Posted by eyemeansit on October 18, 2008 in Uncategorized

Mepis 8: It’s a beautiful thing!

07 Oct

A couple of other nice things:

Stay tuned…


Posted by eyemeansit on October 7, 2008 in Uncategorized

We interrupt this program…

04 Oct


Posted by eyemeansit on October 4, 2008 in Uncategorized