Few days ago, Blair Mathis has written a post about eight rocking Linux Distros, I think is a great post, and covers almost all categories (If we can use that word) of Linux Distros.

The post has:

Full Desktops, like:

Ubuntu, based on Debian
Sabayon, based on Gentoo
PCLinuxOS, based on Mandriva

You may have been using useradd or adduser to add new users or create new accounts in your Linux powered PC.

And sometimes you may have wonder about the difference between the two of them, well, the difference is also different depending on what version you are using.

Debian / Ubuntu

There are six different runlevels in Linux, there could be more than six, but for compatibility reasons six are the default.

I have used RedHat and Debian based Linux, more specifically Fedora and Ubuntu and Debian itself, I have noticed that there is a difference in the runlevels on this different Linux distributions.

Well but first let's define the runlevels:

Runlevels in Linux are seven and they are:

- 0 = halt
- 1 = single user
- 2 = CLI, multi-user, no net
- 3 = CLI, multi-user, networked
- 4 = open
- 5 = GUI, multi-user, networked
- 6 = reboot

Just like The light weight Debian we can do the same with Fedora, I will use Fedora 8 and Fluxbox to install a light Desktop Linux.

First start the installation CD, I have chosen the text environment as, this is supposed to be a light installation, I am doing this on VMware with 128 Kbytes of memory assigned.

I always prefer to use the package manager instead of compiling from sources, mmh maybe compiling is more creates more efficient programs, than using binaries, but in that case, we better use Gentoo or Sabayon, but if we are using Debian/Ubuntu, or Centos/Fedora, I still think is better to use binaries.

Hi,

I finally finish installing KDE 4 on a Fedora, I used F7 for this, I am still trying to install it on CentOS, but in F7 it is installed.

check the threads on the forum, I am using the forum, to make it easier for you, to post your problems and interact if you are having problems installing or compiling KDE 4 on CentOS, Fedora, Debian or Ubuntu, I will later post the same how-to install KDE 4 on Debian and Ubuntu.

How to install KDE4 on Fedora

We the Linux users, are always interacting with Windows users, and one of the most difficult part of that interaction is the exchange of documents, that they create and edit mostly with Microsoft Office, and we use Open Office, and I think that even if they use OpenOffice, they will have access to the system's fonts, so, we need MS fonts installed in our Linux Operating System, in order to look at the documents in the same way they are looking at it.

Yesterday, The Fedora Project has released F8 (code name "Werewolf").