Migrating from SuSE to Fedora

From: Al Bogner (root.forward.dev.null_at_n04c-nospam.pinguin.uni.cc)
Date: 02/26/05

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    I am "not a newbie" with SuSE and would like to compare FC3 with
    SuSE 9.2 and Sarge with an old pc:

    Pentium III (Katmai), 450 MHz
    ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse
    EIZO Monitor F35
    ATI MACH64 MACH64VT
    Digital DECchip 21041 [Tulip Pass 3]
    QUANTUM FIREBALLlct08 26 (broken, DMA doesn't work)
    128 MB ROM

    So I partitoned the hd in 3x8GB für FC, SuSE and Sarge + 128MB swap

    I installed FC3 with the option "linux xfs ide=nodma".

    The 1st surprise was the NIC. The Digital DECchip 21041 [Tulip
    Pass 3) worked fine with SuSE, but not with FC, which could be
    installed neverthelesse, and the Sarge install didn't continue with
    this NIC. I wonder why there are troubles with this very old card.
    I decided to exchange it with a Realtek-NIC.

    Does an url exist, which explains the differences between SuSE and
    FC?

    Does the kernel, which is included in FC3, support utf-8? What is
    the default-system-character-set with FC3? Where can I change this
    with FC?

    Is there a similar tool like yast for FC3? I found a configuration
    tool with KDE. What should I use via ssh? Ok, I could do it manually
    with vi, but I would like to know, if there is a tool, which makes
    it easier.

    How do I update the packages? Is there also a kernel update, without
    building the kernel similar to SuSE?

    I would like to have XFCE as default-wm. Where can I change this?

    Is there a tool to setup a nfs-client?

    Any hints for the migration are appreciated.

    Al

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