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You could install or use aterm and have a terminal open all the time and set it up so it looks like it's part of you background. This is an old screenshot of mine it's Debian with fluxbox.
Not necessarily. Many Fedora users stay one release behind to get a little bit more stability. Fedora is VERY bleeding edge.
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Originally Posted by mickza
I agree with oskar - bleeding edge is not for newbies. It has turned many against Linux.
sorry, i must have said don't try fedora 7, i use fedora since core 4 and i found fedora 7 to be very buggy, when fedora 7 was the current release i switched to opensuse. fedora 8 is better. or if one doesn't like bleeding edge you could use fedora core 6.
Fedora 7 is now the current stable release and therefore suitable for use by newbies - plenty of support on the forums for most problems they may encounter.
Fedora 8 is the current development release and, as such, bleeding edge. I run it on a spare system for test purposes but will only use it on a production system when I feel it is ready - probably when fedora 9 is mooted.
I regard Fedora as one of the best distros around and feel that judging its merits on development releases is misleading to the linux newcomer.
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:5:initdefault:
change default startup run level to 3
Code:
id:3:initdefault:
When you restart the system you will boot into the traditional CLI.
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