Intrigues

Yesterday on freenode, I heard something about fedora that shocked me. I know that fedora is an rpm based system, what I didn't know was that it is supposedly bad to install from source. I may not be into fedora as much as many other people are. But I've been using it as my only operating system for over a year and have learned my way around it quite well. I have never come across something that said installing from source was bad and that it could ruin your system.

True, it could erase dependencies, but couldn't that be easily fixed by using rpm -q on the affected areas and then reinstalling the deleted packages with whatever package manager? Seems like it to me. So thats what I need to learn next. RPM versus source.

Another thing that troubles me in gnome is the lack to override particular parts of an icon theme with ease.. For instance, I know this is rather small, but I would like to change the default html page icon from whatever gnome uses, to the firefox document icon. Most windows programs do this automatically when they set themselves as the default program for the filetype. Its nothing big, as icon themes are easy to comeby, but you shouldn't have to know how to make your own icon theme just to do a simple override.

The main thing I am currently concerned about is getting ati-fglrx drivers to work with my system so I can actually play some decent games like nexiuz, wolfenstein, or americas army. And since the *.2111 kernel came out ndiswrapper has yet to be recompiled for it and I cant find an RPM for the *.2080 kernel. So essentially, I can have one but not the other running at a time because they dont support each other.