I’m thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. He needs are small. She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, so equivalents there are not a problem. She needs grip and lame, for her mp3s – again no problem. In fact the only problem I can see [...]
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Network guru please help: baffled by missing file
The mirrorlist entry in my Fedora-11 /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-update.reporeads:mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch As far as I can see, this means that yum is looking forthe file metalink at mirrors.fedoraproject.org ? If I try "sudo yum update" I get:—[tim at elizabeth ~]$ sudo yum updateLoaded plugins: aliases, allowdowngrade, auto-update-debuginfo, basearchonly, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, filter- : data, keys, list-data, merge-conf, post-transaction-actions, presto, [...]
Auto-installing security updates?
I’ve been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently-widowed man. His needs are small – mail, Internet, on-line banking, basically – but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure. It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the [...]
