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Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed

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On Sun, 1 Mar 2026 01:40:58 -0500, c186282 wrote:


> AQUEMU, despite the fancy interface, does NOT seem to be able to
> recognize the wifi or even a bridge interface. Virt-manager MAYbe can if
> you set the network to, on my box, 'virbr0' which network-manager says
> is a bridge. I'll try that soon.

I've wondered about the schedule for creating isos. The B&N store is next 
to the gym and I got curious last week. Linux Magazine still exists in 
hardcopy and, blast from the past, it has DVDs for both Ubuntu and Fedora 
43.

In that model it's understandable the software will be stale, but with 
almost all isos it seems the first thing it does is look for a internet 
connection and phone home to update. 

I don't know about Xfce, but I'm running KDE which recently released 
Plasma 6. Both the Arch and Fedora boxes have been doing a lot of updates. 
The first round for Fedora was close to a GB. Yesterday's was also close 
to a GB, including the 6.18.13 kernel. The Arch box timed out but it was 
trying to get 6.18.13 too. Arch hadn't been updating the kernel as 
frequently and I believe they were waiting for 6.19. 

I used KVM and didn't have problems other than trying to use a img.zx. 
That didn't fly for some reason. I did VMs both on Fedora (Leap 16) and, 
for laughs, Ubuntu Server on the Raspberry Pi. Yeah, the Pi OS is based on 
Trixie and has KVM although some of the tests for it don't work as 
expected.

In both cases the VM created a virtual NAT, using the host's connection. 
The VMs worked fine although the IPs were something like 192.168.101.93, 
not on my subnet as you mention. Now comes the fly in the ointment. My 
whole system is wireless, not an ethernet connection in sight. Using a 
bridge supposedly allows you to get on the subnet, 192.168.1.x in this 
case -- but it doesn't work with wireless. A NIC can handle it but not 
wifi. I can ping the VMs IP from the host but that's it. No problem for 
trying various distros but if I were to serve up a webpage from the VM 
only the host would be able to see it.

The Linux users group met yesterday and the guy who had started it rolling 
(again) is a newbie (6 months) and tried the KVM route but it was too 
complex for him. He said he did get VirtualBox installed on Mint but 
didn't actually use it. 

fwiw, I think the Leap 16 VM would really like to do a bunch of updates 
but I'm not going to. I did KDE after an extremely brief GNOME install but 
with KDE on Arch and Fedora I really can't see what openSUSE has to offer 
except 'zypper' instead of apt, dnf, or pacman for updates.

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Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-03-01 01:40 -0500
  Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-03-01 18:13 +0000
    Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-03-01 22:34 -0500
      Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-03-02 06:51 +0000
        Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-03-02 03:58 -0500
          Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-03-03 19:51 +0100
            Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-03-03 19:29 -0500
            Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-03-04 03:02 +0000
              Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-03-04 00:09 -0500
                Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-03-04 19:17 +0000
              Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-03-04 13:20 +0100
                Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-03-04 19:20 +0000
                Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-03-04 20:56 +0100
      Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-03-02 12:04 -0500
        Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-03-02 18:56 +0000
          Re: Heh Heh - New Fedora, HUGE Updates Needed c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-03-02 20:11 -0500

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