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From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
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Of Robert Heller
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 4:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
The firmware you mention
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Of Rob Kampen
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I have installed and used CentOS on laptops just fine. The last
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Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 6:35 PM
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Ok, so what would you guys suggest using on a laptop, if CentOS
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The firmware you mention, is that used with dkms or something like that?
I'm not sure what the firmware does exactly. Look in your
/var/log/messages file. There will be some mention
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Probably not the best distro for Laptops,
but many people
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 10:56 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote:
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Probably not the best distro for Laptops,
but many people on this list are using CentOS on their laptops.
So what's considered to be the best choice for laptops? I understand
mileage may vary and so on, but I
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Of William L. Maltby
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:24 PM
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Probably not the best distro for Laptops,
but many
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The *Intel* WiFi-NIC (Intel
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 15:02 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote:
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Of William L. Maltby
snip
Not likely on this list. More likely, a preponderance, maybe even a
majority, but I wouldn't be
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Of William L. Maltby
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 3:27 PM
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Ok, so what would you guys suggest using on a laptop
Sorin Srbu wrote:
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Of William L. Maltby
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
Probably not the best
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The *Intel* WiFi-NIC (Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini
PCI Adapter) on my IBM Thinkpad X31 worked mostly out-of-the-box. I
just needed to download the firmware and I was up
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Probably not the best distro for Laptops,
but many people on this list are using CentOS on their laptops.
So what's considered to be the best choice for laptops? I understand
mileage may vary and so
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 15:02 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote:
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Of William L. Maltby
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security
, 2009 2:24 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
Probably not the best distro for Laptops,
but many people on this list are using CentOS on their laptops.
So what's considered to be the best choice for laptops? I understand
mileage may
...@centos.org] On
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Of William L. Maltby
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
Probably not the best distro for Laptops,
but many people on this list are using CentOS on their laptops.
So
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:11:35PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently-
widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking,
basically
- but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure.
pfff only for office, if you wound a multimedia sistem with the reason
mentioned in the mail before this reply centos is not for desktop, i
preferred fedora 10, fedora have only 1 lack, have the software too much
updated for my taste, but this is minor problem
2009/5/20 Ralph Angenendt
przemol...@poczta.fm wrote:
Use debian stable (currently 'lenny'). The philosophy behind stable
releases of debian is release updates for packages only if you have
security bugs. That way when you run 'apt-get update apt-get
upgrade' you download and install only those already _installed_
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 09:30 -0400, Ross Walker wrote:
On May 20, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.de
wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a
cron job. update yum and then update.
a) That manual was written
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 09:30 -0400, Ross Walker wrote:
I wonder if yum-updatesd might cache repo data separate from yum
cache, in which case some older incompatible cached data from the
previous version may still be around causing
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 21:06 -0400, Ross Walker wrote:
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 09:30 -0400, Ross Walker wrote:
I wonder if yum-updatesd might cache repo data separate from yum
cache, in which case some older incompatible cached
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From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
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Of Robert Heller
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:20 PM
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It seems to me that CentOS would
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From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
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Of Frank Cox
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:22 PM
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Cc: Anne Wilson
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect
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From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf
Of Lanny Marcus
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
Possibly the best way is for the updates to be setup
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From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
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Of John Kennedy
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:34 AM
To: centos@centos.org
Cc: Anne Wilson
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
As much as I like CentOS, I tend to agree
John Kennedy пишет:
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 16:11:35 Anne Wilson wrote:
I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently-
widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking,
basically - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels
very
Frank Cox wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2009 16:11:35 +0100
Anne Wilson wrote:
It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to
keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install
security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of
Lanny Marcus wrote:
The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a
cron job. update yum and then update.
a) That manual was written at the time of 5.0 - yum-updatesd was broken
then. b) It is broken again :/ c) yum update yum and then yum update
the rest broke things for
Frank Thommen wrote:
Hi Anne,
[...] he feels very insecure.
It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to
keep it securely patched. [...]
I'd be glad of any advice.
Like a previous poster, I'd also suggest, that you use an other
distibution in
yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time
and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to
recompile dependences i advice use slackware, is fast and desktop friendly,
similar to swiss knife.
but if you have a server, probably best
Equinox86 wrote:
yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time
and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to
recompile dependences i advice use slackware, is fast and desktop friendly,
similar to swiss knife.
I still call this
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Equinox86 wrote:
yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time
and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to
recompile dependences i advice use slackware, is fast and desktop friendly,
similar to swiss knife.
[...]
Like a previous poster, I'd also suggest, that you use an other
distibution in this case. Ubuntu might be a good choice or maybe SuSE.
Both are probably better suited for non-commandline techies :-).
That is utter bullshit. The neat thing about CentOS as a Desktop is that
the
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Equinox86 equino...@gmail.com wrote:
yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time
and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to
recompile dependences i advice use slackware, is fast and desktop
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.de wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a
cron job. update yum and then update.
a) That manual was written at the time of 5.0 - yum-updatesd was broken
then. b) It is
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.de wrote:
Equinox86 wrote:
yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time
and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to
recompile dependences i advice use slackware,
On May 20, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.de
wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a
cron job. update yum and then update.
a) That manual was written at the time of 5.0 - yum-updatesd was
broken
then. b) It is
At Wed, 20 May 2009 08:14:05 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Equinox86 equino...@gmail.com wrote:
yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time
and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time
Frank Thommen wrote:
[...]
Like a previous poster, I'd also suggest, that you use an other
distibution in this case. Ubuntu might be a good choice or maybe SuSE.
Both are probably better suited for non-commandline techies :-).
That is utter bullshit. The neat thing about CentOS
On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a
cron job. update yum and then update.
a) That manual was written at the time of 5.0 - yum-updatesd was broken
then. b) It is broken again :/ c) yum update
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Equinox86 wrote:
yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time
and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to
recompile dependences i advice use slackware, is fast and desktop friendly,
similar to swiss knife.
While I am very happy with CentOS on my servers and my office workstation, I am
using Ubuntu on my home laptop...
The main point being: with Ubuntu, everything (wireless, graphic card, etc...)
just worked straight away.
All the other distros I tried failed on one or more aspects.
And debian
On 05/20/2009 03:55 PM, John Doe wrote:
While I am very happy with CentOS on my servers and my office workstation, I
am using Ubuntu on my home laptop...
The main point being: with Ubuntu, everything (wireless, graphic card,
etc...) just worked straight away.
All the other distros I tried
on 5-20-2009 6:14 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following:
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Equinox86
equinox86-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote:
yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time
and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much
I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently-
widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, basically
- but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure.
It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for
At Tue, 19 May 2009 16:11:35 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently-
widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking,
basically
- but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop
On Tue, 19 May 2009 16:11:35 +0100
Anne Wilson wrote:
It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to
keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install
security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications
perhaps
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently-
widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking,
basically
- but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure.
It
Anne Wilson wrote:
I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently-
widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking,
basically
- but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very
insecure.
It seems to me that CentOS would be
on 5-19-2009 8:11 AM Anne Wilson spake the following:
I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently-
widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking,
basically
- but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure.
It
Hi Anne,
[...] he feels very insecure.
It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to
keep it securely patched. [...]
I'd be glad of any advice.
Like a previous poster, I'd also suggest, that you use an other
distibution in this case. Ubuntu might be a
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:22 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently-
widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking,
basically
- but his wife dealt
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 14:37 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:22 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently-
widowed man. His needs are small - mail,
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:54 PM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 14:37 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:22 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
I've been asked to think about setting up an
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 16:11:35 Anne Wilson wrote:
I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently-
widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking,
basically - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels
very insecure.
It seems
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