Fedora: DVD to CDs

[GNUrag]

By the way the official indian mirror at IIT Madras is slower than the mirrors in North america. We at IISc too have a local mirror for the similar reason. And ....er ......one parting thought ....er.....GENTOO RULES....

That's because IIT Madras Debian Mirror is a secondary level mirror.... Actually every institution has created mirrors now a days... but they dont open it to public. .... TIFR is coming up with second indian Debian mirror in a month....

to use .rpm in debian there is a conversion tool called "alien". This converts a .rpm to .deb which can be use in debian setup.

But debs created with alien aer most often broken. there are basic issues like debian uses /etc/rcS.d where as redhat uses /etc/init.d/rcS.d or other issues with /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin

 

[tuxfan]

Using Debian means that you are using a completely Free GNU System.... which has no Proprietary software included.... RedHat and others for example bundle Adobe's Proprietary Acrobat Reader software.....

That means I can't read PDF files in Debian!! How many other things are there which I can't do? Please enlighten me so that I can have a complete picture before I plan a switch from Fedora to Debian. BTW, now I have a FC3 DVD given by LFY. I don't know whether it contains all ISO images or is it a full bootable DVD.

that's the reason why you can see so many Live-CDs based on Debian .... and not on other distributions.... RedHat for example is very strict about its usage of RedHat logo and trademark

I agree. I think that is PCQ had to replace all instances of the word red hat from its code, thereby messing all email addresses as well :roll: BTW, there is a live distro based on RH9 called Bhavya OS. Its by an Indian company based in Hyderabad

 

[GNUrag]

That means I can't read PDF files in Debian!! How many other things are there which I can't do? Please enlighten me so that I can have a complete picture before I plan a switch from Fedora to Debian.

Adobe is not the only company which makes PDF reader software. GNU/Linux distributions in general and Debian in particular bundles numerous pdf viewers that are Free Software in true sense and way much good looking than Acrobat Reader.
xpdf - comes with X11
gv - part of GNU utils package
kghostview - comes with KDE
gpdf - comes with GNOME

gv and xpdf get installed by default in any case... so at a given time you have 3 pdf reader software installed. Couple this with the fact that GNU Utils package have native facilities of creating Postscript and PDF files.... provided that you have LaTeX installed.

want to know anything else ?

 

[curvenger]

tunxfan FC3 given by LFY is a complete one, and also it`s bootable, but the CD check will not work properly, but all the instalation will work fine, its like all the four CD are in one DVD( i dont mean their image)..[/quote]

 

[tuxfan]

want to know anything else ?

Yes. Lots.

Anyway, please tell me in short what applications will I not see in Debian which I so easily see in Fedora Core.

 

[GNUrag]

Anyway, please tell me in short what applications will I not see in Debian which I so easily see in Fedora Core.

You'll have all the application in Debian. No need to worry..... I know of only one application which is not there in Debian ports collection: mplayer ....

The Debian ports collection contains an up-to-date archive of more than 40GB of packages.... How do i know? The server which was mirroring Debian's collection at TIFR got disk full errors on its 40GB partition.... we have added a new 120 GB disk to it....

 

[tuxfan]

Thank you. Anyway, I am not a fan of mplayer. I can live without it. BTW, can I not later download and install it? .deb is not available?

 

[GNUrag]

.deb is not available. On their site they have made available only rpms for RH9 and Fedora.... so officially they suport only redhat. Others have to compile it ...

 

[tuxfan]

Others have to compile it

I know I don't have to look too far beyond you to find out someone who can either do it for me or still better teach me how to do it

 

[GNUrag]

arrey, its not a big deal....
# ./configure
# make
# make install

I'll come at ur place sometime and we shall do it all!!!!

 

[tuxfan]

Cool!! But I need to install Debian first. My PC with DVD-ROM out of order since such a long time

 

[GNUrag]

oh.... i see.. somewhere you said, you're getting a DVD writer soon.... i'll get a blank DVD also ....

 

[tuxfan]

Yes. My brother is getting a laptop with a DVD writer. So I can copy DVDs in that machine if he is present in the office when you come

If not that way, then one other friend also has a DVD writer (external ). Even he can copy it for me.