On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:19 PM, cybernet cyberne...@yahoo.com wrote:
centOS 5.5 is for servers not for desktops, please get use to that
use another distribution like ... a very popular one for desktops
Or just install the multimedia add-ons and use it as your desktop.
For MP3s, I just
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Johan Scheepers johans...@telkomsa.net wrote:
Good day,
Been googling about this matter.
Afraid I am now confused.
Too many options..: for/against/whatever.
Some is years ago.
Kindly please a step x step manner in which to accomplish to enable mp3
please.
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Dejan cen...@bektchiev.net wrote:
I had a similar issue with Picasa on my Fedora 14 laptop. The solution
was to download the latest Picasa version for Windows and run it under
Wine.
Stupid question (I'm guessing). I'm currently tri-booting (or would
like to be) VectorLinux 6 Deluxe, CentOS 5.5 and an evaluation copy of
Red Hat 6. I'm using CentOS's grub. VectorLinux and CentOS boot fine,
but Red Hat won't load. I think I read somewhere that CentOS's grub is
too old for ext3,
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote:
You don't need to upgrade grub, I'm quite happily dual booting rhel6 GA
on a CentOS-5 system (using C-5 GRUB).
Only thing I did differently is the rhel6 /boot partition is mounted on
an ext3 partition whereas I _think_ the
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote:
Yes, I installed rhel6's grub to the rhel6 /boot partition during the
rhel6 installation and then added a chainloader entry to the end of the
CentOS-5 /boot/grub/grub.conf to boot rhel6:
title RHEL6 Buildsys
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote:
Yes, I installed rhel6's grub to the rhel6 /boot partition during the
rhel6 installation and then added a chainloader entry to the end of the
CentOS-5 /boot/grub/grub.conf to boot rhel6:
title RHEL6 Buildsys
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net wrote:
Well this guy is obviously running Centos 5.5, and can't
wait for the upcoming 6 release.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xed9LiMf1Qgfeature=aso
Happy New Year all ;)
Happy (late) New Year. I like the video -- saw it
I'm happy to report that, as of (at least) the last Flash update, full
screen Flash (on Hulu and Youtube) is again working on my machine. I
know some folks weren't updating Flash because of this so it might be
time to update.
--
RonB -- Using CentOS 5.5
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Luigi Rosa li...@luigirosa.com wrote:
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Just one thing: THANK YOU ALL!!!
Ciao,
luigi
Seconded (or thirded, or fourthed... or...)
Update went without issue on the desktop -- currently updating the
laptop. I don't
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Ron Blizzard rb4cen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Luigi Rosa li...@luigirosa.com wrote:
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Just one thing: THANK YOU ALL!!!
Ciao,
luigi
Seconded (or thirded, or fourthed... or...)
Update
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 7:36 AM, William Warren
I think many of us would like to see releases in a timely manner.
Centos is now months behind in nearly every version with the onset of
cent6. I've started moving boxes to ubuntu due to this increasing
delay. The security of many machines is
I've been having an odd problem lately. When I drag files from the
computer to a flash drive, they appear to copy, but when I try to use
the files I find that only the name was copied (file size of 0). When
I copy the same files to the same flash drive, from the terminal,
everything seems to work.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Ryan Pugatchr...@tripadvisor.com wrote:
Ron Blizzard wrote:
I've been having an odd problem lately. When I drag files from the
computer to a flash drive, they appear to copy, but when I try to use
the files I find that only the name was copied (file size of 0
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Filipe
Brandenburgerfilbran...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 14:45, Ron Blizzardrb4cen...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been having an odd problem lately. When I drag files from the
computer to a flash drive, they appear to copy, but when I try to use
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Robert
Nicholsrnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote:
Ron Blizzard wrote:
1
Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost hald[2450]: forcibly attempting to lazy
unmount /dev/sda1 as enclosing drive was disc
That indicates that you unplugged the drive without first unmounting
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Robert
Nicholsrnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote:
Ron Blizzard wrote:
1
Jul 1 03:54:26 localhost hald[2450]: forcibly attempting to lazy
unmount /dev/sda1 as enclosing drive was disc
That indicates that you unplugged the drive without first unmounting
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:24 PM, natecen...@linuxpowered.net wrote:
You can if you want also run the 'sync' command to flush out the
write cache of the system.
I do that myself before I remove any type of disk that I have
written to, mainly out of habit, it's not a bad habit to
have.
I
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Filipe
Brandenburgerfilbran...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 16:16, Ron Blizzardrb4cen...@gmail.com wrote:
One thing that is odd -- sometimes when I unmount the flash drive, I
get a notice on the bottom of the screen that says 1) Wait until the
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Robert
Nicholsrnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote:
If there is a significant amount of data that must be written to the
device, then you get the pop ups. If the device can immediately be
made ready to remove, then there are no messages. In either case,
when the
I come to you hat in hand again. For the first time in a long while
I got a Update Notification at the bottom of my screen -- so I
decided to click on it and run the update. Unfortunately I got a
couple dependency errors and am not sure how to solve them. (Not even
sure why I got them.)
They are
I should also mention that I added (a few days ago) the M Harris
repository so that I could install Firefox 3.5.
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:12 PM, MHRmhullr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Ron Blizzardrb4cen...@gmail.com wrote:
I should also mention that I added (a few days ago) the M Harris
repository so that I could install Firefox 3.5.
I ran an update for my rpmforge stuff this
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM, MHRmhullr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Ron Blizzardrb4cen...@gmail.com wrote:
A few days ago, I think someone mentioned that they were doing
something at RPMForge. I'm guessing this is part of it -- this is is
an old Pentium III that
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Olaf Muellerdaily-pla...@istari.de wrote:
Ron Blizzard wrote:
Hello.
Missing Dependency: libavcodec.so.51 is needed by package
transcode-1.0.5-1.el5.rf.i386 (installed)
Missing Dependency: libx264.so.55 is needed by package
transcode-1.0.5-1.el5.rf.i386
I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most
part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes
that take down CentOS, not just Firefox.
It happened to me twice on eBay (on the same page) -- and now I can
replicate it as many times as I want by going to...
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Michael A. Petersmpet...@mac.com wrote:
Ron Blizzard wrote:
I'm curious to see if this is only my problem, or if other have
experienced it or can replicate it.
Confirmed - also i386 mharris packaging.
Tring x86_64 (rebuild of his src.rpm) momentarily
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Michael A. Petersmpet...@mac.com wrote:
Michael A. Peters wrote:
I'm writing for a couple reasons.
I'm curious to see if this is only my problem, or if other have
experienced it or can replicate it.
Confirmed - also i386 mharris packaging.
update - it
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:53 AM, John R Piercepie...@hogranch.com wrote:
FWIW (about $0.0002), Firefox 3.5 on Windows XP (32bit) doesn't crash on
either newsletter.
I tried it in Windows 2000 in VirtualBox and it worked fine -- I
should have mentioned that.
--
RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Mike A. Harrismhar...@mharris.ca wrote:
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Ron Blizzard wrote:
(followup on original post from previous reply)
I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most
part, have had good luck
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Ron Blizzardrb4cen...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting. I'll see what I can find in /var/log/messages and share
anything that might point to the problem. Thanks for writing.
Here's what the logs show...
Jul 17 00:31:51 localhost last message repeated 3 times
Jul
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:14 PM, John R. Dennisonj...@gerdesas.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:03:37PM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote:
I'm getting dependency issues on the python update itself:
I'm getting a missing dependency of /usr/lib64/python2.4 on the python
update. :(
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Bob Hoffmanb...@bobhoffman.com wrote:
Hate to ask, but after reading the last few months of centos history online
I am worried.
And to learn the lead guy seems to have absconded with the cash and left all
the hard working devs high and dry..well that is scary.
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Marcus Moellerm...@marcus-moeller.de wrote:
But please note: CentOS itself has a clear strategy which means
upstream compatibility. Nothing more and nothing less. No focus on
specialized systems (which does not mean you can create a custom spin
for an specific
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:45 PM, James B. Byrnebyrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote:
However, having been bitten once, I feel that I must ask this more
formal question. What steps, if any, have been taken to establish
the CentOS project as a separate legal entity distinct from any
individual
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Jake Shiptonjak...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
May also want to consider using the netinstall images if you have a
constant network connection during install. Saves downloading a whole
DVD or a bunch of CD's
;-)
Although do try the LiveCD as stated above.
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Kwan Lowekwan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all:
Does anyone know of a tool/project that will allow me to read the
battery condition (not the charge status) on a Dell laptop battery?
Under XP there is a utility that warns that the battery is still
holding a
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Kwan Lowekwan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all:
Does anyone know of a tool/project that will allow me to read the
battery condition (not the charge status) on a Dell laptop battery?
Under XP there is a utility that warns that the battery is still
holding a
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
Don't misunderstand. I think you have done and are doing a great job
but some things are out of any single person's control. All I'm
suggesting is that it would be nice if there were an easy answer to the
question of
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
That was in response to Johnny's comment about having to personally know
someone before they would be allowed to touch anything in the
repository. What if something happens to Johnny? Is there a bigger
picture?
I'm
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Ian Murraymurra...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I can't say I have been following this thread in its entirety, but the
beauty (?) of free speech is that even the ill-informed get to have a say.
:o)
Anyway, I think there is a general problem with the name Community
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Ian Murraymurra...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
There is nothing wrong with the distribution itself, long may it live. My
concern is that it is too reliant on individuals. A concern the devs raised
themselves through the open letter. I am raising the same concern about
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Ian Murraymurra...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I did understand it the first time, but thanks again for the further
clarification. This kinda illustrates my point. Couldn't you have a
different repo with these updates maintained by other community members,
under the
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Ian Murraymurra...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Well, I know I have benefited from the discussion because I understand the
challenges that face the CentOS team with regards to security updates whilst
they are rebuilding a point release. As has been pointed out to me, we're
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Bob Goodwinbobgood...@wildblue.net wrote:
Ok, I may have botched that one. I have been routinely using the fedora
Live-cd's to install from. Wildblue is a satellite system and I only
get 17 gig's/30 days and I spread that among four other members of the
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:12 PM, James B. Byrnebyrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote:
Nonetheless, it is very evident from the heated exchanges on this
mailing list that there exists a substantial divergence on which
path to take from here. It seems to me insupportable that the past
practices of a
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Filipe
Brandenburgerfilbran...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, as Johnny already said, you can use the LiveCD itself to do
a netinstall. However, in that case, you will still download the
packages from the Internet as they are installed.
I'm sorry, I should have
I set up a CentOS desktop computer for my brother and his kids. When
Firefox 3.5 came out he decided to download and install it like he
would Windows (he doesn't yet understand the repository system). He's
been telling me that it works fine, even though I was skeptical due to
my experience with
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:20 PM, John
Thomasgmane-2006-04...@jt-socal.com wrote:
Ron Blizzard wrote:
Firefox 3.5 and *some* CentOS 5.3 computers (an Xorg graphics card
incompatibility issue?) -- it goes beyond the RPM package released by
For the record, I have been using Michael Harris' 3.5
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Lanny Marcuslmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote:
Ron: My Desktop is dual boot. M$ WinXP Home and CentOS 5.3 (32 bit). I
rarely use M$ Windows, but yesterday I needed to use it, and I was
offered an Update for Mozilla Firefox. What was offered was not 3.5.
It was
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:06 PM, David G. Millerd...@davenjudy.org wrote:
I just checked the links with FF 3.5.2 under Fedora Core 11 and they open just
fine. This would seem to narrow the problem down to FF 3.5 on CentOS 5.3.
Perhaps someone with a CentOS 4.X could give it a try (assuming
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
Ian Murray wrote:
Part of my professional work is risk assessing system upgrades. I have
been doing so long now that everything I professionally do is considered
from a risk perspective. Maybe those of us that have to
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Ian Murraymurra...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I am troubled by the window of opportunity that a hacker has between RH
releasing a point release and CentOS releasing the equivalent. Every RH
published errata for that stream is a known weakness to your system and
there
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:56 AM, David G. Millerd...@davenjudy.org wrote:
SIGH. The choice is always bleeding edge (and take your lumps) or stability
but
missing the most recent versions. I'm looking at a career change (or mid-life
crisis) with the network security classes. I'm not
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Michael
Wrightmicktaywri...@bigpond.com wrote:
I CAN UNDER STAND THAT BIT BUT NOT THE GRUB
MIKE
Unless I'm misremembering, Grub finds your Windows partition and sets
itself up for you. Just hit e when CentOS starts to boot to see your
other choices.
If you
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Chaz Sligerc...@bctonline.com wrote:
I use Symantec’s Norton Partition Magic to carve up the disk, usually into 3
partitions (NTFS for windows, FAT32 for moving files between windows and
linux, and a linux partition).
You’ll need to copy the linux bootloader
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Johnny Hughesjoh...@centos.org wrote:
Now days, if the machine is fairly decent, I just install windows in a
Virtual Machine.
I like Sun's Virtual Box on CentOS to run my Windows Hosts ... others
use different things like VMWare.
You can get virtual box
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Johnny Hughesjoh...@centos.org wrote:
If so, in CentOS 5.3 that package is called pirut and the individual
file that runs is called puplet.
It seems that puplet is not working correctly after the upgrade to 5.3,
according to this bug:
VirtualBox works great but, since I only really use one Windows
program (an older, specialized word processor called Movie Magic
Screenwriter), I'm thinking of using Wine to run it in CentOS and
getting rid of the Windows virtual machine. But a couple questions:
1) If I run Wine, do I introduce
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Christopher
Chanchristopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
Security...no...performance...is that with regards to the rest of the os
or the program or in comparison with having Windows in a sandbox like
Virtualbox?
Good. I wanted to make sure I wasn't introducing
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Lanny Marcuslmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote:
FWIW, Google's Picasa for Linux runs on a Google customized version of
WINE. I haven' seen any issues with Picasa on CentOS 5.3 (32 bit).
YMMV
I've never used it, but I'm glad it works well. I haven't had time to
try
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:31 PM, David Suhendrikda...@pnyet.web.id wrote:
Dear All,
I'm newbie and i want to know Your opinion about CentOS vs Fedora, hopefully
this isn't make a flame, and just to curious..
Actucally now I'm using CentOS as some servers. ^_^'
For me CentOS is just a better
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Ron Blizzardrb4cen...@gmail.com wrote:
impressed with 10 and 11. Still, due to the nature of Fedora, you've
got a *lot* of upgrades and I think that would beat me down after a
Meant to say updates instead of upgrades.
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RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:35 AM, David Suhendrik da...@pnyet.web.id wrote:
=D, Someone make me confused, and just a make sure here...
I'm so sorry for this...
I was worried too, on the day I first saw the message. But I found (on
that day) that the worst that would have happened would have
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:23 PM, William Warren
Why do we want to know? Because of one person's disappearance the project
nearly went boom. Because by your own admission(the devs) the funds were
NOT going to further the project. If you can't get a thicker skin maybe you
need a vacation.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Neil Aggarwal n...@jammconsulting.com wrote:
It makes a difference to me. I am not going to give my hard
earned dollars to people to waste. I have to know they are going
to do something constructive with it.
Okay, I understand your sentiment, but I think
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:07 PM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote:
Money is a very corrosive material to place in the hands of people
absent public oversight. It needs to be treated with both caution
and circumspection lest it destroy that which it is intended to aid.
That is why
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote:
Does 5.3 have minimum installation RAM requirements? I had not noticed.
Does the same apply for running?
5.2 did not seem to have any issues running in 512M that I recall.
I've installed CentOS 5.3 on a Pentium III (500
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank h...@forsoft.com wrote:
Hi All:
It appears that the RPMforge.net site is down. Can someone confirm
and possibly advise when it might be expected back?
I can't get to RPMforge.net either, but Dag Wieer's site is still up.
I thought these were
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, keep in mind that it took many years for Red Hat to get it right
(or what they think is right) and when they did, they stopped
distributing the binaries for free. Ubuntu should be getting pretty
close to having
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Drew drew@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sorry but stay as far away from them as you can. AVG 7 was great,
I used to recommend it all the time, but version 8 has become really
bloated and chews through resources like no-ones business. I installed
it on a dual-booted
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:17 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
someone suggested Avira Free last time I cleaned my wife's laptop (she
got a koobface virus via facebook with about 8 trojan sidekicks and some
kinda ddnsfilter too)... seems pretty good, and it found some bits of
the
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Ron Blizzard rb4cen...@gmail.com wrote:
I like stability over cutting edge, so CentOS (with multimedia from
RPMForge)
What are the details on MM from RPMForge?
If I could get my MM
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
Fedora has the advantage to a RHEL/CentOS user of having the same
install/admin tools. But if you are turning the box over to someone
else, Ubuntu makes much more of an effort to be user friendly. And they
haven't
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Tait Clarridge t...@clarridge.ca wrote:
CentOS is great for server use and if you want to learn CentOS for use
as a server, Fedora is a great place to start because they are both
redhat based. Chances are that if you got something to work in Fedora,
you can
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
You can get asterisk packages from rpmforge on Centos...but on Ubuntu
you do not have to add an extra repository to get asterisk.
What I meant was that the pre-built Asterisks (Trixbox, AsteriskNow,
Elastix and PBX in a Flash) are all
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Joseph L. Casale
jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote:
Have a look at FreeSwitch as well:)
Thanks. I think I looked at it once, but I can't remember what it was
about it that didn't attract me at the time. I'll take another look.
--
RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
Rob Kampen wrote:
I have a dedicated * CentOS box that shows today as uptime 543 days. I
built from scratch as I needed to support a four port analog trunk card.
This does not have internet access as I'm running it
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Brian Mathis brian.mat...@gmail.com wrote:
Uptime is a red herring and is generally meaningless. You'd be better
off performing updates and reboots at least once a month, so you don't
need to worry about any big changes that might come with not updating
for
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
Ron Blizzard wrote:
Have a look at FreeSwitch as well:)
Thanks. I think I looked at it once, but I can't remember what it was
about it that didn't attract me at the time. I'll take another look.
Here's some
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
You are still exposed to anything that is on the local LAN - which could
include other machines that might have been compromised through browser
exploits, etc. unless the segment only connects to IP phones (and you
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:23 PM, rb4cen...@gmail.com wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Brian Mathis
The difference is that CentOS is a general-purpose OS that can be used
for many things, and has a much bigger installed base. That makes it
more of a target and would likely be
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Marcelo M. Garcia
The reason for Ubuntu in the laptop is simply because CentOS didn't work
very well. I followed the wiki about XPS M1530[1] and everything
almost work. At the office one of the developers uses a Dell Precision
laptop with RHEL 5.3 (it came
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Brian Mathis brian.mat...@gmail.com wrote:
Not connected to the Internet, and not connected to a LAN are very
different things. I doubt VOIP would work if the server was not
connected to a LAN. There could be quite a few things on the LAN,
depending on it's
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
But even with old-school phone switches, your support contract would
require software updates at regular intervals and unless you had
redundant hot-failover equipment, that would involve scheduled downtime.
Not with
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
Gabriel - IP Guys wrote:
When someone asked “When will **CentOS 5.4 come out??** The answer is,
“When it is good and ready”, and when they ask “Why/What does that
mean?”, ask them to Google “*open source
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
It's not fun on the other side of this fence either. Being kept in the
dark makes you imagine all sorts of scary things.
Oh give me a break. The CentOS developers have consistently released a
solid distribution. If I
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote:
It's good to have a fixed date to work towards.
Otherwise, you get feature-creep, where more and more stuff goes into
the release but never stabilizes.
I don't think feature-creep is an issue in CentOS. I think the
Interesting column at CNET...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10376762-16.html
~~
Novell has been positioning itself as the Avis of Linux, a distant
but gaining Red Hat competitor that tries harder. Like Oracle,
Novell argues that it can give customers Red Hat value at a lower
price.
There's
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Ian Blackwell i...@ikel.id.au wrote:
Ron Blizzard wrote:
I wonder if Red Hat has ever considered limited, paid support options
for CentOS?
I think that would be brand cannibalisation and self-defeating. To
charge a lower support fee for the same product
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:
again, whether people are being paid to do any of this work is not
relevant. it's important, from the perspective of reputation, that
everyone see the centos project as being efficiently and competently
run, and
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Joseph L. Casale
jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote:
which is about as useful as Microsoft Windows support... is it broken?
reinstall windows
FFS, this attitude amongst opensource guys that MS is the devil and are
trying to murder your family or sabotage your
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Joseph L. Casale
jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote:
I called them and explained to them that I couldn't get it to boot --
they gave me instructions on reinstalling
So Windows is garbage because one support tech is an idiot? There are
no idiots in the Linux world?
Just used 'yum clean all' and 'yum update.' So far no problems at all.
I had to double check to make sure that I actually updated -- no new
wallpaper or splash screen this time.
Thanks everyone.
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote:
First off, I'm glad that 5.4 is now available, and a big Thank you to
the development team for all of their hard work.
I have noticed that the docs for 5.4 appear to be accessible on the
CentOS Web site, but some of
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote:
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 00:33 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote:
I have noticed that the docs for 5.4 appear to be accessible on the
CentOS Web site, but some of them seem to have some issues. In the
Technical Notes
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Ryan Pugatch r...@tripadvisor.com wrote:
Alan McKay wrote:
In addition to frequent Firefox crashes (4 or 5 a day, zero before the
upgrade from 5.3) I'm also having Amarok crash 2 or 3 times a day.
And suddenly the bar at the bottom disappeared - with the 4
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Neil Aggarwal n...@jammconsulting.com wrote:
Hello:
Does anyone know a free or low cost online backup
system for CentOS?
I assume you mean something other than the ADrive or Rapidshare type
sites? A Google search came up with this one...
http://www.rsync.net/
2009/4/2 Ralph Angenendt ra+cen...@br-online.de ra%2bcen...@br-online.de
Why should we list rpmforge packages in the Release Notes? exclude
subversion from base if you want to use the one from rpmforge because it
is newer - and remove gstreamer-plugins-bad, because it shares some
files with
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Tim Nelson tnel...@rockbochs.com wrote:
Greetings CentOS Team-
Since the list tends to be filled with things don't work and why did you
do it this way and complaint X, I thought I'd make a small deviation...
I have a production system running on a Dell
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