Fedora is now up and running on the computer. Turns out a lot of those applications were already included (that explains the 4 CDs). Overall, it was a much better experience than the last time I tried to use Linux (a certain LiveCD distro overheated a laptop, killed it, and cracked the table beneath it… but that’s another story). Now I just have to finish configuring the system.
And black455, thank you for that chart. It’s really useful.
As for antivirus: If nothing else, Windows taught me that it’s usually better to be paranoid. I download and use a lot of apps and I don’t have the knowledge to go through source code and examine it. I just want to be sure the binaries I run aren’t talking to anything unless I want them to. I’ll see if ClamAV or the other AV programs on that chart would work.
Also posting a thank you for your replies. I got Qt installed and working today. I think tomorrow I may try to get synaptic up and running, but I swear if I run into one teensy little problem getting it to work I will put it on the back burner for now.
Ugh. That’s really badly written because I was in a rush – sorry about that. Let me try again:
If you type apt-get update && apt-get install synaptic on the command line, you’re actually specifying two commands. The system will run apt-get update (the first command) to completion. Only if that completes successfully will the system run apt-get install synaptic (the second command) , due to the && (logical and).
There, that’s better. You probably didn’t need it, but I hate it when I give confusing explanations.
Having done it myself, it does take care of all the dependencies. It (Synaptic) really is a lovely little front end for apt, and makes installing programs so easy.
