Fedora niceties -- polish (2008)
Man, Fedora feels polished.It’s quite hard to explain it.The fonts look better.The mouse cursor has a little shadow on it.Even system updates feel.. nicer.It’s also fast as hell.I have heard that upgrading between Fedora versions is a nightmare, so we’ll see how that works for me, but certainly upgrading packages in the current version — Fedora 9 — is very easy.
Fedora problems - emacs and cvs (2008)
Part of a continuing saga of posts outlining any difficulties I have with my switch to Fedora (from a heavily broken hybrid of Ubuntu, Gobuntu, Debian and gNewSense)CVS check ins refuse to use emacs.I don’t know why.I have $EDITOR, $CVSEDITOR, $ALTERNATIVE_EDITOR all set — nothing.I want to be able to type ‘cvs ci’ and have it prompt me for a commit message in emacs.That’s all.