Conversion to Linux - part 2

[Jeffrey Watts]

There are several key differences, but most are under the hood.  To
overgeneralize, Fedora is the more "high tech" distribution and Ubuntu is
the more "user friendly" one, but as you can see, there's a reason I say
"overgeneralize".  :)

The most noticeable visible difference is the fact that Fedora uses the
traditional Unix model of having a superuser account, whereas Ubuntu by
default has a locked superuser account and requires the use of 'sudo'.
Different philosophies, but you'll find the method Fedora uses to be far
more common in the Unix world.  I believe Ubuntu is the only major Linux
distribution to do things that way.

As far as the Fedora 10 installer, you can get a command line only installer
by typing "linux text" at the GRUB prompt.  If you don't see a prompt, hit
Esc when you see the GRUB loading screen.  Let me know if that doesn't work
and I'll check on it for you.  Been a while since I've done a text only,
non-kickstart install.

As far as the network settings go, do you have your default gateway set up
properly?  If you can provide a 'netstat -nr' it may help a bit.

I did a quick google, and came up with a good link about AD integration:
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_Active_Directory

You may want to search Red Hat's and Fedora's sites for distribution
specific instructions.  You probably want to research eventually
transitioning to LDAP instead, however I wouldn't make that move until
you're done with everything else.

Jeffrey.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Haworth, Michael A. <
Michael_Haworth at pas-technologies.com> wrote:

> OK, so I have Fedora 9 installed on a HP nc6910p laptop - installation went
> smoothly and everything seems to be working correctly - but, when I try to
> access the internet for updates, packages, or just browsing, I get no
> response from anything. I have verified that the wireless is configured
> correctly and connected. I can ping both the gateway and external (
> google.com). lack of experience is leading me to nowhere right now...
>
> On the flip side - Loving the interface (Gnome) as it is what I am used to
> - aside from the networking not working correctly there seem to be
> (outwardly) very few differences between Fedora and Ubuntu (but they are
> built from different distro's, correct?). If I were to show this to the
> powers-that-be, they would dig it just as much. I do like that on install it
> asked if I wanted to used Kerberos credentials for logins... so I am
> guessing that I can use the existing AD credentials in Server 2003 to
> authenticate sessions... might take a little work to figure out, but nothing
> that can't be solved (once it understands that there is a network to talk
> to).
>
> Tried the Fedora 10 Beta, but the GUI installer kept crashing after
> partitioning and I could seem to find a text installer at this point - so I
> will wait it out on that one...





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