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News, Updates & More Here you can find
news related to this site (new pages, new projects, changes, and such)
and Linux in general, as well as updated information related to my book
"Linux for Non-Geeks." Choose from the links below, or just scroll down
the page to find what you're looking for.
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| Site News |
14 April '04: GNOME Panel bug fix and one command correction from the book added to the Updates, Errata, & Bug Fixes section of this page (see section below). |
| 14 April '04:
XFCE page is temporarily down due to some sloppy uploading and
downloading on my part. Should have it back up within a week. |
| 10 April '04:
Added new page to the Apps & Projects page
telling how to install XFCE, an
alternative light-weight desktop environment. |
| 9 April '04:
Added new how-to to the How To's page telling how to get around having
to input your root password when using KPPP. Read it here, if you're interested. |
| 8 April '04:
Added two pieces to the CompuRants page - "Battle for the Linux Desktop," which is
my explanation of why I think GNOME is better than KDE, and "Which Distro is Best," which is a
comparison of some of the most popular Linux distributions. |
| Book Related Updates, Errata, & Bug Fixes |
Bug Fix - GNOME Panel Drawer Oddities: If you have a drawer on your panel, and you are using the panel's autohide feature, you will find that the drawer automatically pops open any time the panel appears. This is a bug in GNOME 2.4, which ships with Fedora Core 1. You can fix this problem, and a few other oddities, by installing the updated GNOME Panel RPM. To do this run Synaptic and type gnome-panel in Synaptic's Find box. Then click Update, Execute, and then follow the usual Synaptic procedures. If you prefer, you can instead download the RPM file directly and then install it via the usual double-click method - there are no other dependencies to install. To go that route, just click the following link to download the file: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/gnome-panel-2.4.2-3.i386.rpm Either route you take, after the new file is installed, restart your machine and your panel problems should be gone. |
| Correction - Page 135,
Project 9A-3, #5: In the very last line, rmdir
expRPMS should be rm
-r expRPMS, unless, of course, you move or dump the files inside
that folder first. The rmdir
command only removes empty directories. |
| Update - Page 140, Project
9C: Adding the Macromedia Flash Player plugin
has become a much simpler process, as the necessary file is now
available as an easy-to-use RPM and no longer requires libstdc++. The
necessary file is available from http://macromedia.mplug.org/. |
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