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Just downloaded 2679 individual rpms (2598 MB) in 26:56. The small ones always slow it down, but well under 30' is surely a record for me.
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Fedora is another flavor of Linux, right? Is it directed at a specific demographic (like work, or as a Windows replacement, etc)?
Yes. Basically, Fedora is to RedHat as Firefox is to Mozilla. I run it under a Parallels VM for development that's specific to servers.
For example, I have a few "bots" (basically php scripts) that run on my server as well as the website's server to do specific things:
- One of those bots parses an RSS feed for the last 10 website posts and embeds them as bullets in an image. The image then gets tweeted to the website Twitter account 3 times a day.
- Another one of these fetches information from Google Analytics twice a day to get location-based hit information in a csv format for a tracking spreadsheet I maintain.
- There are others that I run periodically to get data from a European news aggregator to see where the site sits as far as leading stories, etc., showing trends of what headlines do well, etc. It then creates a web page (basically an log with an html header) so website staff can review the data.
GabeU wrote:Fedora is another flavor of Linux, right? Is it directed at a specific demographic (like work, or as a Windows replacement, etc)?
Mint is a lovelier flavor. ;)
Been experimenting with Cinnamon desktop. It's interesting and I'm sure it works much better on Wayland than X11, but Parallels hasn't made the leap to hooking Wayland yet. So Cinnamon works kind of sluggish in Fedora.
That said, found that Parallels' internet and filesystem interoperability kernel modules are fubar under kernel 4.12.5. So it's been a fun few days.
maratsade wrote:
GabeU wrote:Fedora is another flavor of Linux, right? Is it directed at a specific demographic (like work, or as a Windows replacement, etc)?
Mint is a lovelier flavor. ;)
Yep. LOL.
I actually downloaded Linux Mint 18.2 64 bit Cinnamon last night and I'm going to install it on a spare HDD in this desktop. I just want to play around with it some. I've done that with other versions of Linux Mint in the past, then get bored of it. Then again, I usually download and install MATE (I have that on my original desktop build (17.1)). Perhaps Cinnamon will be more interesting.
I've only ever downloaded/installed Ubuntu and Mint(Cinnamon). I think Mint is the friendliest for my level.
