On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 03/08/2012 02:44 AM, Jonathan Allen wrote:
>>
>>
>> a. F16 without Gnome 3
>
I use ndiswrapper to make Windows XP RTL(not sure the version??) USB
wireless adapter driver work under Linux (on lubuntu).
Here the ubuntu version steps, hope off
On 03/08/2012 02:44 AM, Jonathan Allen wrote:
a. F16 without Gnome 3
My pick. You don't have to use Gnome to use Fedora and many of us
don't. I use XFCE, many others use KDE and there are lots of other
choices out there.
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Dear Dale (and others who helped),
> I'd recommend F16 with XFCE.
>
> Install XFCE and then change or create /etc/sysconfig/desktop to:
>
> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
> PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startxfce4
>
> Or just re-install the system from the F16 Live XFCE CD,
> which is what I did.
>
> I've
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Jonathan Allen
wrote:
> I have an old laptop that got upgraded this week from WinXP to F14 after a
> massive virus/trojan hit :-(
>
> The laptop has the Realtek RTL8178 wireless chipset and did wireless fine in
> WinXP. Although it can see the wireless network fine
On 08.03.2012, Jonathan Allen wrote:
> So, as a novice, how do I switch the default desktop on F16 to the old Gnome
> that was used in F14?
This is no longer possible, Fedora decided to go on with Gnome 3. So
the choice is Gnome 3, or one of the other fine desktop environments
as e.g. KDE or XFC
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:23, Jonathan Allen
wrote:
>> F14 is out of support so security holes in thr browser etc are not being
>> fixed. I'd suggest F16 with another desktop.
>
> So, as a novice, how do I switch the default desktop on F16 to the old Gnome
> that was used in F14?
Another desktop
Alan,
> > a. F16 without Gnome 3
> >
> > b. back-fitting the working RTL8178 stuff into the (otherwise fine)
> > F14 installation
> >
> > Recommendations or instructions?
>
> F14 is out of support so security holes in thr browser etc are not being
> fixed. I'd suggest F16 with a
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:44:54 +
Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have an old laptop that got upgraded this week from WinXP to F14 after a
> massive virus/trojan hit :-(
>
> The laptop has the Realtek RTL8178 wireless chipset and did wireless fine in
> WinXP. Although it can see the w
Hi All,
I have an old laptop that got upgraded this week from WinXP to F14 after a
massive virus/trojan hit :-(
The laptop has the Realtek RTL8178 wireless chipset and did wireless fine in
WinXP. Although it can see the wireless network fine, it won't connect in F14.
I downloaded the F16 L
