Fedora on a Dell XPS 15?
by CS DBA
Hi All;
I'm looking for a replacement for my 15" macbook pro retina, I tried to
switch to mac but Linux is just too good.
Thinking of buying a Dell XPS 15 (specs below), anyone have any thoughts
on if Fedora will run on this machine?
Thanks in advance
Specs:
Note that this laptop has ONLY a Mini DisplayPort for an external monitor
*
Processor*
4th Generation Intel® Core^(TM) i7-4702HQ processor (6M Cache, up to 3.2
GHz)
*Memory*
16GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600MHz (8GBx2)
*Hard Drive**s*
1TB 5400 rpm SATA Hard Drive + 32GB mSATA Solid State Drive
*
Video Card*
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 750M 2GB GDDR5
*Display*
15.6 inch LED Backlit Touch Display with Truelife and QHD+ resolution
(3200 x 1800)
*Wireless*
Intel® Centrino® Wireless-AC 7260 + Bluetooth 4.0
*External Chassis Connections*
USB 3.0 w/PowerShare (3), USB 2.0 with PowerShare (1), mini DisplayPort
(1), HDMI (1), 3-in-1 media card reader supporting SD, SDIO, SDXC,
headset jack (1), Noble lock
*Keyboard*
Full size, backlit chiclet keyboard
*Touchpad*
Glass integrated button touchpad
10 years, 5 months
f20 - gedit
by Robert Moskowitz
Well here comes the questions on 'where is it now'. Of course since I
skipped f18 & f19, these may be 'old' issues....
So with gedit, where 'preferences'? I need to turn off line wrap so I
can use it to edit various config files. Meanwhile, back to vi.
10 years, 5 months
yum question
by bruce
hey guys.
i can do a yum list installed
and i get a list of the installed packages for the local system.
However, I have no idea where this data is coming from!!!
is it coming from the
/var/lib/rpm ,
/var//lib/yum/yumdb
or perhaps somewhere else??
is there a switch I could use to change the db, or to point to a
different yumdb/dir?
IE, I've got a drive from a separate/older system that I'd like to
mount/examine to see what packages where installed with yum on that
drive...
the "installroot" switch appears to be used to chroot into a separate
location for the yum.repos.d" - but I could be wrong..
thanks
10 years, 5 months
GNOME Screencast & Audio
by Jorge Fábregas
Hi,
Fedora 20 here. Is there a way to record audio with GNOME's embedded
screencast tool?
Thanks,
Jorge
10 years, 5 months
Different actions on different passwords?
by William Oliver
I guess this is more of a general linux question than a fedora one, but since I use fedora...
A friend of mine (a Windows afficionado, but not experienced with linux), and I were talking about recent examples where folk were required by the court to provide the password for their laptop. That lead to a beer-induced thought problem:
In linux, is it possible to dictate two different actions upon login with different passwords? For instance, given an encrypted file dat.txt, could one have a login such that:
login: billo
Password: Password1
Action: bring up shell
login: billo
Password: Password2
Action: delete dat.txt, then bring up shell
Assume some arbitrary level of encryption. I guess with just file encryption (e.g. dat.gpg) it's not a loging problem. So assume there's encryption of the home directory or of the /home partition.
I couldn't think of any. There are a thousand ways to delete a file on login, of course, but I couldn't think of a way to accept two different passwords. The closest I could come up with was to have two different accounts with the same userid but different usernames in /etc/password, with a different initial startup for each. But that would provide two different usernames...
billo
10 years, 5 months
no video after upgrade to fedora 20 (from fedora 19)
by Rafnews
Hi,
i finally upgrade fedora 19 to fedora 20 using fedora-upgrade (fedup had
issues)
System boot normally. Displaying grub, the fedora logo filling from
black to white ...and colorized finally.
And just after black screen (like no video signal) in my virtual machine
(where fedora is installed).
I don't understand where is the problem.
Do you have an idea where could issue be located ?
thx.
10 years, 5 months
Fedup Failure
by Mark Bidewell
I tried upgrading from Fedora 19 to 20. When the System Upgrade task
starts I get a failure around /run/initramfs (it moves fast). Then it
boots back to Fedora 19. Any thoughts on how to debug?
--
Mark Bidewell
http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell
10 years, 5 months
is cronie-anacron a package requirement for cronie or not?
by Robert P. J. Day
slowly getting back to speed on my fedora stuff and i'm a bit
puzzled about the dependency relationship between the packages cronie
and cronie-anacron.
predictably, cronie-anacron requires cronie, that part's easy.
however, if i check to see what "requires" cronie-anacron on my fedora
20 system, i see:
# rpm -q --whatrequires cronie-anacron
no package requires cronie-anacron
#
normally, i'd interpret that to mean that i can remove that package
independently of anything else. but if i try, i get a list of 35
packages that would be removed due to dependencies, including cronie
itself.
why is that? what command do i run to see that obvious dependency?
thanks.
rday
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10 years, 5 months
Re: Fedora's Equivallent to Wubi?
by SternData
On 01/02/2014 12:52 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> Hey folks,
> Does Fedora have an equivallent to Wubi? My laptop doesn't have the
> horsepower to run it yet, and I don't really want to fiddle with
> partitioning yet.
> Thanks,
> Hunter
Live CD?
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-- Steve
10 years, 5 months
F20 weirdness while tweaking new install
by Tom Horsley
I can't reproduce any of these, but I thought I'd go ahead
and report them just in case they can be correlated with
other reports:
1. I copied all my virtual machine config files from
the old /etc/libvirt/qemu to the new /etc/libvirt/qemu,
then did a "systemctl restart libvirtd.service" and
the gnome 3 shell immediately stopped talking, waited
a few minutes, then died with "something has gone wrong"
2. I was running various config tools to make changes
and at some point tried to run system-config-users.
It sat there like a lump and timed out trying to
talk to polkit. systemctl status said polkit was
Inactive (dead), but gave no reason for it to be dead.
There was nothing I could find in any log. I tried
to start it again, but that command hung forever
as well, so I eventually rebooted and everything was
working fine again when it came back up.
3. When I started virt-manager the first couple of times
I got popups saying "bluez" or "python" required
some collection of qemu and libvirt software and asking
if I should install it. When I clicked yes, it said
"Oh, that's already installed." Huh? Anyway, that
seems to have stopped happening.
Those are the ones I remember. There might have been
others.
10 years, 5 months
