Fedora Revisited, Using seven and waiting for eight.
Tuesday, 13. November 2007, 00:50:11
This past week, I have researched the reason why the poweroff commend fails to work. I replaced Sabayon with Fedora 7, then edited the
This fixed the problem with the poweroff command. At the same time, I went to OSDisc.com and ordered a copy of Fedora 8 on DVD-ROM.
I am no stranger to Fedora. I started using Linux with the Red Hat 5.0 distribution in December 1998, when I obtained an AcerFrame 500 (a 486DX-66Mhz machine with 16MB of RAM and a 2GB Micropolis SCSI hard drive), and a CD-ROM drive. To get the drive to work, I purchased a Turbo EIDE controller card.
Fedora 8 includes the Eclipse development environment, OpenOffice 2.3, Digikam 0.9.2, F-Spot 4.0, all on the DVD.
/boot/grub/menu.lstfile to insert acpi=force in the command line to start the Linux kernel.
This fixed the problem with the poweroff command. At the same time, I went to OSDisc.com and ordered a copy of Fedora 8 on DVD-ROM.
I am no stranger to Fedora. I started using Linux with the Red Hat 5.0 distribution in December 1998, when I obtained an AcerFrame 500 (a 486DX-66Mhz machine with 16MB of RAM and a 2GB Micropolis SCSI hard drive), and a CD-ROM drive. To get the drive to work, I purchased a Turbo EIDE controller card.
Fedora 8 includes the Eclipse development environment, OpenOffice 2.3, Digikam 0.9.2, F-Spot 4.0, all on the DVD.
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