linux newbie cdwriting

[Advent Systems]

Daniel,
The Up-Dater that comes with FC2 is horrible. There are systems you can 
download to get the updates that I found to work very well, one is 
apt-get, the other is Yum. The only other updaters I used before were 
SuSE's YOU, it works well but only gave me the updates that SuSE wanted 
me to have. The other was mandrake's and after freshly installing a 1 
year old distro (9.1) it told me "system was up to date and no updates 
were available". So you see why I like updating FC2 much better. You 
have to do a little extra work but it's much better and I believe that 
what linux is all about. On the other end of the scale you have 
mswindows update where you click one button and walk away, and you can 
only hope what it's actually doing is good.
As far as getting the modem to work I can say this. I tried 3 different 
distros and nothing worked. I paid Linuxant $14 10 min. latter I could 
fire up my win-modem with any of the distros. They have gotten a bad rep 
because the drivers should be free but , and I agree, but on the other 
hand someone did do some work to make the drivers available (and they 
work well) so for $14 bucks, I figured that was money well spent to fix 
a problem that was VERY vexing to me. I would still like to get the 
modem working on my own (w/0 the linuxant drivers) but at that time my 
dialup connection was my only access to the internet (i had to download 
the drivers on my win2k side).
Just somthing to think about.

Good Luck,
Bob Randal


Daniel Villarreal wrote:

>On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 17:22:18 -0500 Bob typed...
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>>DV-For CD writing I use a combination of X-CD-Roast or command-line.
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>>For DVD-Writing I would use X-CD-Roast. I don't have a DVD-equipped
>>system anymore. I have a lap top and that's it.
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>>BR-I have a laptop also and it take a lot more work to setup then most desktops but it can be done.  I'm using FC2/Gnome and thanks to the good people on this list now K3b for my CD writing.   Since you seem to like Redhat you might want to try the FC2 route.  Since you don't have a DVD drive there no point in me going into that.  
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> I liked FC2, once it got Firewire capability, but when I tried to update it, it barfed... An OS is no good to me if I can't update it. I'm interested in FC3, but since this is my only system, I need to have something I know I can work with. I figured I'd go with free Red Hat
>Enterprise Linux. Very vanilla, but I like the XWindows set up, it gives
>me 1024x768 on my Vaio laptop. Now if I could just get the built-in
>modem to work in Linux... I'm not interested in paying for commercial
>Linuxant modem drivers.
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>>DV-BTW, I do depend heavily on external Firewire/USB2 drives for 
>>storage. I never trust XP Home to not totally wipe out my laptop's hard > drive ;-)
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>>BR-Don't depend too heavily on the external USB2 drives as you only 
>>source of backup.  I re-installed (3) different distros, thinking 
>>something in that particular distro did not like my USB drive and in >the end it was the USB drive that malfunctioned.  As to XP Home, GET >RID OF IT! if you must dual boot, as I do, I highly recommend win2k.
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> I have some stuff written to DVD, and a lot is written to CD-ROM.
>I never had any problems with Win2k, but a license for XP Home came with my laptop. I don't run anything that I don't have backed up on XP :-)
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>>DV-I'd like to try and get my Palm Zire Z71 to work with Linux, I've never been able to set up a USB Palm device in Linux. I've used a serial cradle in the past with a Handspring device in Linux.
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>>BR-I'm still working on getting my palm to sync correctly, when I figure it out I'll drop you a line, and hope you do the same.
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> Palm is nice, but I wish I could run the emulators... If I get around to getting it set up in Linux, I'll write to the list.
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>>I hope I helped,
>>Bob Randal
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> been nice, Bob
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>later,
>Daniel
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