#350 A Fedora Linux Migration Guide
Closed: published 2 months ago by rlengland. Opened 3 months ago by glb.


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3 months ago

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3 months ago

@bachenberg I've added a featured image to your article and done a few minor editing changes.
I plan to schedule this for publication 20 January so this would be a good time for you to perform a last review, if you wish. I will schedule this the evening of 19 January (PST).

Thank you for your article.

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3 months ago

@bachenberg The preference for code in the Magazine is to use "preformatted" rather than code blocks. I chose not to change them because there was a strange combination of blocks in the article that I could not seem to modified and I did not want to risk harming the content.. If you can modified the text that is code to preformatted I believe it should look better.

You might want to advise the user to wait for the akmod-nvidia package to finish rebuilding before rebooting. Unfortunately, there is no "easy" way to know if the driver has finished building in the background. You'll have to run something like top or ps -e | grep akmod. It's a very old issue with akmods:

https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?315480-nvidia-driver-query#post1794586

See also: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/32198

You might want to note that the xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda package provides the nvidia-smi command.

Thanks for the Feedback! I'll edit my article the next days. I moved the publish date to the 24.01 ( hope that's ok for you)

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3 months ago

Can we also preface the RPM Fusion section with a disclaimer? I'm thinking of something along the lines of what was done for the gaming article: https://fedoramagazine.org/gaming-on-fedora/

I’ve updated the article to reflect recent improvements, and I’d love to hear your feedback!

Just my two cents, but I would omit "... even for my parents". 🙂

One thing that trips people up sometimes is that many PCs support booting in both a legacy/BIOS mode and the more modern UEFI mode. I would suggest adding a note in the "Boot from the USB Stick" section stating that if the USB device is listed in both a legacy boot mode section and a UEFI section, it is recommended to use the newer UEFI mode.

I’ve added all the changes.

Oh, one more thing. While it is technically true that Fedora Linux will run on a system with only 2GB of memory, you won't be able to do much with it. For the typical use case (running a full GUI environment, web broswers with multiple tabs open and running JS apps, etc.) 2GB really isn't enough. Can you point at the Recommended System Configuration instead? Thanks.

Could we use '35 bucks' to represent the price of the SSD? because the price stays the same across Europe, the US, and the UK, no matter the local currency.

@bachenberg "bucks" is used in the US to indicate dollars. We can use that but it may imply something not intended, unless I'm not aware of a more wide spread meaning for the word (which is certainly possible).

I'm not clear on what you meant by "... the price stays the same ...". Do you mean that the SSDs prices are 35 Pounds, 35 Euros, and 35 Dollars? I would suspect the prices would vary by country at least due to import duties, shipping, etc.

I bought a Crucial BX500 SATA SSD 480GB for 35€ on Amazon.de. The same SSD costs 35$ at Amazon.com and 35£ at Amazon.co.uk

I have removed the dollar amount. I believe that most readers will be able to determine that the amount is relatively low regardless of the currency type. (Who knows what pricing scheme Amazon is using to make them numerically the same.)

I think we are ready to publish. I will review it one more time and schedule it.

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3 months ago

@bachenberg Your article is live. Thank you for contributing to the Fedora Magazine.

Thank you for providing me with the opportunity to contribute to Fedora Magazine.

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2 months ago

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