Clean installing Fedora 41 on a Dell Latitude 7450

2024-12-07 Thread Ranjan Maitra via users
Hi, I finally was getting around to installing Fedora on my wife's new Dell Latitude 7450 but am unclear about the security settings in the BIOS Setup and was wondering what advice anyone could offer. This machine will only run Fedora and Windoze will be wiped out (the sooner the better). So,

Re: DNF Upgrade Cleanup Dangling Symlinks

2024-12-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Dec 6, 2024, at 22:14, Stephen Morris wrote: > What determines that the lock file is valid? In the case of Thunderbird where > it creates a lock file in folder for my profile and the folder where > Thunderbird is installed to, the symlinks are dangling while Thunderbird is > running, if fire

Re: Upgrade time again - in-place or fresh install? - Postgresql and Podman DBs?

2024-12-07 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Barry, On 2024-12-08 00:57, Barry wrote: On 7 Dec 2024, at 04:14, Philip Rhoades via users wrote: Does an in-place upgrade handle major changes in Postgresql and, more importantly, Podman now? - if so, how does it do it? Podman implements the container standard. As such I would not expect

Re: Upgrade time again - in-place or fresh install? - Postgresql and Podman DBs?

2024-12-07 Thread Barry
> On 7 Dec 2024, at 04:14, Philip Rhoades via users > wrote: > > Does an in-place upgrade handle major changes in Postgresql and, more > importantly, Podman now? - if so, how does it do it? Podman implements the container standard. As such I would not expect that an update of podman could br

Re: Non-sensical DNF Functionality

2024-12-07 Thread Barry
> On 7 Dec 2024, at 01:54, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Yes, but this still highlights the final question as "sudo dnf download > symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" does the download but as shown above "sudo dnf > install symlinks-1.7-11.fc41.src" won't do the install. Use rpm -i src-rpm to install the

F40 -> F41: no wakeup from hibernate after dnf upgrade

2024-12-07 Thread Ranjan Maitra via users
Hi, I upgraded my six-year old 2018 Dell XPS 13 laptop from F40 to F41 last night using: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/ I followed all the instructions there and did not notice any warnings, much less errors. Indeed, I was thinking that how smooth thi

Re: How to change root "/" partition?

2024-12-07 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 2:44 PM George N. White III wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 2:06 AM Robin Laing wrote: >> >> >> Just about all the sites have pointed to running scrub under a cron >> script on a regular basis to help minimize issues and ensure integrity >> of the drive. I don't know wha

Re: Adobe Digital Editions v 4.5 and Wine on Fedora?

2024-12-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2024-12-07 at 00:16 +, Will McDonald wrote: > I can't speak to Fedora's ability to update Kindles I'm afraid. I've > reverted to paper books on the whole. Works perfectly with my Kindle, as it always has done. poc -- ___ users mailing list