Gnome 3.0 ARRRH!#"§$#!!!

Rant and perhaps solution

I finallly reinstalled fedora. So now I have a completely new Fedora version and I am not amused. Really not amused. First I had trouble with Grub, then I had trouble with the DNS and finally I had to curse against gnome 3.0. Or is it only unity... I am not sure. I do not rant. But this time, I am more than annoyed. I would not say I am pissed off. But nearly. I keep asking myself: why? Why? Why?

First of all Grub... Actually I did not want to reinstall the boot directory from Grub. I wanted to be able to use my old fedora if I needed it. But that did not really work. So I let the new fedora (or I should say anaconda, overwrite the boot loader).

Then, for some reason the DNS was not configured and I had to reconfigure it per hand. Why ?

Finally, how is gnome 3.0 supposed to be used. Why can't I create my desktop icons ? Why can't I add launchers to the panel or the desktop. My computer is supposed to be used. I do not care really how it looks.

I just found the solution in this post for at least some of my problems

Ubuntu Installation

Yesterday, I installed a Ubuntu system on the laptop of a friend of mine, whose windows got bugged by a virus and who could not boot any more.

The laptop of my friend is a Acer Travelmate 2420. There seems to be a number of good experiences with this laptop under linux so I went ahead and tried the installation.

Moving ext3 impossible

The installation went without real problems, apart that as I tried to update ubuntu there was enough place on the hard disk (well there may have been in the end if I had cleaned the cache of the previous updates. I will have to take a look at this). Once I noticed that I tried to resize the root partition. To do this, I resized the home partition. This was no problem. But as I tried to move the ext3 partition, I noticed that it did not work. So I had to reinstall the system another time.

Printer

The other problem I had was installing the printer. She has a Canon PIXMAP IP 1700 and there is no direct driver for this printer. It seems that another driver works: the IP2200 driver. Yet I haven't tried whether it works yet. I wanted to make sure that it does not ruin her printer.

DVD Burner

I will also have to make sure her DVD burner works without problem.

Antivirus

She also asked me to install an antivirus which updates itself. I used for this the antivirus which is accessible from ubuntu (I think it is the clamav). And she tried to install another one from the internet antivir, but I do not know if that works.

Reinstalling Fedora 8

After having Ubuntu on my disk for something like a week. I wanted to try reinstalling Fedora 8 from scratch, in order to notice the differences better. After having created a new fedora live CD, I installed fedora.

1. back up from the data I had from the debian.
2. Partitioning
1. create a boot partition
2. create LVM partition
3. create some useful partitions in the LVM partition
1. root partition
2. home partition
4. let anaconda install every thing
5. reboot
6. complete the necessary information after first boot