Fedora 14 Experience
I recently decided to try Fedora 14 on my laptop (Thinkpad T410). I have had some stability problems with Ubuntu on this laptop, so I thought I will try Fedora for a change.
I used the Live CD image (x86_64). Installation was smooth, but I noticed this annoying feature called "command not found". I had to remove package PackageKit-command-not-found to get rid of it.
Another surprise was that Fedora doesn't have the compiler (gcc) and OpenOffice.org in the Live CD. (Ubuntu has both). Eventually, I ended up installing all these packages:
yum install pidgin vim gcc ctags screen java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin openoffice.org
Finally, I found that Adobe has released a x64 version of flash player. I installed it and it seem to work fine.
Open Source policy : India vs USA
This is incredible. There are reports of MS software in India's UID project whereas
google is suing USA Govt for something similar:
http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/02/stories/2010110264181100.htm
NFS vs CIFS
Recently I came across this question - "What is the major difference between NFS and CIFS?".
A bit of search seem to throw some points:
- CIFS is state-full while NFS is staleless (Note however that NFSv4 seem to have added state-ness).
- CIFS handles more than files - for example, it can be used to access printers and other peripherals on remote machine
- CIFS seem to be more chatty of the two, although opinions are divided.
Is that all or there is something more fundamental that I am missing? Anyone?
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