November 13, 2004 1:01 PM
Fedora Core 3 + the case of the dissappearing menu, and losing services.
Well, in spite of what I've said some time ago, I have downloaded the iso's for Fedora Core 3 and installed it. I had tried getting them using 'wget', and then using 'curl', but as I was trying on the day after FC3 came out and all the servers were being hammered it was frustratingly slow. So, I stopped it and got and installed 'bittorrent', and that worked like a dream. A nice smooth, error-free, download of perfect iso's, and with no problems with the md5sums either.
So I installed FC3, without installing 'selinux' as I don't feel I need it. And, with several minor problems the resultsing OS is nice and clean, fast and with little configuration to do. Overall I like it
If you add things/items to your menu and then find that you've lost your kde menu, don't panic! This is exactly what happened to me but I was able to restore them by opening up a konsole terminal and putting;-
===========================
mkdir menu.bak
and then
mv .config/menus/* menu.bak
===========================
and the menus are restored. It worked for me but I'm not guaranteeing that it will work for you.
I've been having a look at services running, primarily ones that I don't use. So, using 'webmin' I've stopped and disabled apmd, atd, gpm, mdmonitor, netfs, nfslock, pcmcia, portmap, sshd. This should reduce the number of processes running and may also improve the security too. But, as usual, time will tell.
So I installed FC3, without installing 'selinux' as I don't feel I need it. And, with several minor problems the resultsing OS is nice and clean, fast and with little configuration to do. Overall I like it
If you add things/items to your menu and then find that you've lost your kde menu, don't panic! This is exactly what happened to me but I was able to restore them by opening up a konsole terminal and putting;-
===========================
mkdir menu.bak
and then
mv .config/menus/* menu.bak
===========================
and the menus are restored. It worked for me but I'm not guaranteeing that it will work for you.
I've been having a look at services running, primarily ones that I don't use. So, using 'webmin' I've stopped and disabled apmd, atd, gpm, mdmonitor, netfs, nfslock, pcmcia, portmap, sshd. This should reduce the number of processes running and may also improve the security too. But, as usual, time will tell.