Repo for Fedora?

[Pupalaikis]

Seeing that there are repositories for Ubuntu, Mandriva, and openSuse, is one available for Fedora as well?

David Pupalaikis

[bleucanard]

Sorry about the delay, we're very busy at the moment !

We have not been looking at Fedora, because we tend to go for more "stable" distributions (I mean distributions that do not have as many frequent updates as Fedora, I do not mean that Fedora is unstable !). Which version are you currently using, 10 or 11 ?

[Pupalaikis]

Actually, I was just curious. (I dual boot between Linux and Vista on my classroom computer.)

I have tried out Ubuntu 9.04 & 8.10. However, Ubuntu does not play too well with dual monitor setups.

Mandriva was okay, but trying to get the PLF repositories working was not possible due to the filters my school district uses.

OpenSuse had the same issue concerning repositories as Mandriva.

After all of these, I thought about giving Fedora 11 a shot. Except that Fedora 11, the G31T motherboard, and the GeForce 9800GT of my home computer did not exactly work right. And if it won't work for the home, I'm not going to try it on a computer that is critical for daily use.

What I think I will do is keep my fingers crossed for the first two weeks of November, when Fedora 12, Mandriva 2010, OpenSuse 11.2, and Ubuntu 9.10 are slated to be released... ...if the release schedules don't change. Then I will give each of them a shot.

[bleucanard]

> I have tried out Ubuntu 9.04 & 8.10. However, Ubuntu does not play too well with dual monitor setu
Do you mean with a projector or in general ?

Here at Promethean, we are running a mixture of Ubuntu, Debian and Mandriva, and we find that with a projector, mirroring the desktop with a projector is problematic with all distributions, or at least with Gnome: the dual monitor setup tries to be "clever" (dangerous things when computer programs do that !): it clamps the minimum resolution to the lowest of the two, so say you have a netbook that can do 1024 x 576, it won't let you mirror it on the projector at 800x600, even though it is capable of doing it. There are ways to override the Gnome setup, so if it is the problem you have, let me know, I may be able to help.

Have you tried Debian ?

[mintslice]

Seeing that there are repositories for Ubuntu, Mandriva, and openSuse, is one available for Fedora as well?

I'm using f11, but I also use centos (which is of course rhel).

It should be possible to provide a repo like adobe does for flash and acrobat which just works for all rpm based distros.

If this isn't possible a tar ball would be great, or even better a SRPM would be nice (since it's not usually hard to build these for distro x).

And yes, the best solution would be a yum repo for Fedora, Centos and RHEL (which are all as common as any of the distro's above).


mintslice

[bleucanard]

It should be possible to provide a repo like adobe does for flash and acrobat which just works for all rpm based distros.Not as easy when you're dealing with kernel modules. They have to be recompiled for your specific kernel / architecture.

If this isn't possible a tar ball would be great, or even better a SRPM would be nice (since it's not usually hard to build these for distro x).There is a tar.gz for ActivInspire, check this forum for instructions.

[Pupalaikis]

> I have tried out Ubuntu 9.04 & 8.10. However, Ubuntu does not play too well with dual monitor setu
Do you mean with a projector or in general ?

Here at Promethean, we are running a mixture of Ubuntu, Debian and Mandriva, and we find that with a projector, mirroring the desktop with a projector is problematic with all distributions, or at least with Gnome: the dual monitor setup tries to be "clever" (dangerous things when computer programs do that !): it clamps the minimum resolution to the lowest of the two, so say you have a netbook that can do 1024 x 576, it won't let you mirror it on the projector at 800x600, even though it is capable of doing it. There are ways to override the Gnome setup, so if it is the problem you have, let me know, I may be able to help.

Have you tried Debian ?
Well, I've swapped out the Nvidia card that I was using for my work computer with a Radeon 4850, so I'll try Ubuntu. However, your notes about how Gnome is currently playing with an extended desktop and mirroring are not very encouraging. (Desktop monitor is 1920x1200 connected to the HDMI out, the projector connected to the VGA out) Still, I will definitely give it a shot this week and get back on the results.

[mintslice]

Not as easy when you're dealing with kernel modules. They have to be recompiled for your specific kernel / architecture.

Ah, there's kernel modules involved.

You should have a look at akmods (for example in the rpmfusion repo - http://rpmfusion.org/ (or http://download1.rpmfusion.org/ for the files).

For example, akmod-<driver>, would look for the driver for the kernel when the system starts and if it can't find it then it builds it for the current kernel, loads it as part of the boot and the user isn't really aware that this happened.

This might be a elegant solution which saves you having to build new drivers for each released kernel.

[bleucanard]

For example, akmod-<driver>, would look for the driver for the kernel when the system starts and if it can't find it then it builds it for the current kernel, loads it as part of the boot and the user isn't really aware that this happened.

That's already what we are doing [clap]
On startup, the driver gets recompiled if it fails to load (as long as you have the right packages to recompile a driver, which are part of the dependencies of the driver package).