Re: [VERY LONG] The fonts SIG irregular status report: Fedora 11 state

2009-06-21 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Saturday 20 June 2009, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: — FPC and FESCO were very late in reviewing and approving new packaging guidelines. Also, FPC requested last-minute changes in font package naming. That caused a lot of confusion in the first months of the Fedora 11 cycle. Packagers that

Re: Fedora 11 wireless-tools yum erase?

2009-06-21 Thread Martin Sourada
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 12:14 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: Why does yum erase wireless-tools want to: Removing for dependencies: anaconda firstboot rhpl system-config-(boot,date,date-docs,firewall, firewall-tui,keyboard,kickstart,language,lvm, network,network-tui,rootpassword,users,users-docs)

Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

2009-06-21 Thread Bharath
Hi all, Why is necessary to have a particular package tagged as fc10 or fc11?? What is the significance.? As it is, versions of the packages keep changing independent of the Fedora versions. For example : kdebase-4.2.3-1.fc10.i386 is available for fc10 and the same version

Re: Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

2009-06-21 Thread Prasad H. L.
I second this. Can't we have only one stable repository which is for Fedora, instead of one each FC10, FC11, ...? development, testing and stable three repositories for Fedora as a whole and snapshots of stable as releases? That would make definitely user's life simple and I believe would make

Re: Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

2009-06-21 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 18:22 +0530, Prasad H. L. wrote: I second this. Can't we have only one stable repository which is for Fedora, instead of one each FC10, FC11, ...? development, testing and stable three repositories for Fedora as a whole and snapshots of stable as releases? That

Re: Fedora 11 wireless-tools yum erase?

2009-06-21 Thread Martin Sourada
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:10 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: Then the description need changing: Description wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD and Windows with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i / RSN). Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client

Re: Fedora 11 wireless-tools yum erase?

2009-06-21 Thread John W. Linville
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:14:04PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: Why does yum erase wireless-tools want to: Removing for dependencies: anaconda firstboot rhpl system-config-(boot,date,date-docs,firewall, firewall-tui,keyboard,kickstart,language,lvm,

Re: Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

2009-06-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:52:18 +0200, drago01 wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Bharathajeetbhar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Why is necessary to have a particular package tagged as fc10 or fc11?? What is the significance.? As it is, versions of the packages keep changing

Re: Fedora 11 wireless-tools yum erase?

2009-06-21 Thread TK009
On 06/21/2009 07:57 AM, Michal Schmidt wrote: Dne Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:14:04 +0100 Frank Murphyfrankl...@gmail.com napsal(a): Why does yum erase wireless-tools want to: Removing for dependencies: anaconda firstboot rhpl system-config-(boot,date,date-docs,firewall,

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12 (#2)

2009-06-21 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:24:35PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote: F12 x86 will not work on i586 (or i686 without CMOV) Intel Pentium Intel Pentium Pro VIA Cyrix III VIA C3 and C3-M (Samuel 2) VIA C3 and C3-M (Ezra) VIA C3 and C3-M

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12 (#2)

2009-06-21 Thread drago01
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Glen Turnerg...@gdt.id.au wrote: On 19/06/09 00:19, Bill Nottingham wrote: No, period - I haven't seen anyone in the community say that they're testing it on i586-class hardware. Hi Bill, Your wiki page has some jargon (i586) which I'm trying to reduce to

Re: Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

2009-06-21 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 04:56:07PM -0600, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: I *wish* it made a difference. I did an upgrade am an left with a host of fc10 packages because the fc11 ones weren't considered newer. For example people with updates-testing enabled on fc10 got a non-upgraded yum

Re: F11: LVM over MD is broken. Switch back to F10?

2009-06-21 Thread Ian Pilcher
You'll also want to watch out for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506189 Good times! -- Ian Pilcher arequip...@gmail.com

Re: Why do we need FC version attached to the package name?

2009-06-21 Thread Ben Boeckel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: On 06/21/2009 09:14 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: Yes, and let me add that the .fc10 and .fc11 (the dist- tag) is part of the package Release value not just the package file name. That makes the .fc11 package newer

.spec file help - need buildrequires to depend on fedora version

2009-06-21 Thread Carl Byington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My libpst package BuildRequires boost-devel, which works on older systems (centos4 thru fedora 10), but for fedora 11 and devel, it needs BuildRequires boost-python-devel. What is the preferred .spec code to achieve that? -BEGIN PGP

Re: .spec file help - need buildrequires to depend on fedora version

2009-06-21 Thread Todd Zullinger
Carl Byington wrote: My libpst package BuildRequires boost-devel, which works on older systems (centos4 thru fedora 10), but for fedora 11 and devel, it needs BuildRequires boost-python-devel. What is the preferred .spec code to achieve that? Something like this: %if 0%{?fedora} 10

Re: rawhide report: 20090621 changes

2009-06-21 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Rawhide Report rawh...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Compose started at Sun Jun 21 06:15:09 UTC 2009 Here (x86_64) yum tries to install a raft of *.i586 packages without matching *.x86_64 (like libfprint-0.1.0-8.pre2.fc12). Almost nothing is x86_64, it seems. Not even the kernel is available. BTW,

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-21 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: [...] Gah. Allowing packages to pierce the firewall just makes the firewall redundant. Not entirely. I still think that the current firewall situation on Fedora is pretty much broken. It's a bit like SELinux: it's one of the first features

[Bug 22393] Make the font naming WWS-clean

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22393 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net changed: What|Removed |Added CC|

[Bug 22394] New: Serif condensed italic files have bad metadata

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22394 Summary: Serif condensed italic files have bad metadata Product: DejaVu Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority:

[Bug 507129] New: Please update font links and deps

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: Please update font links and deps https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507129 Summary: Please update font links and deps Product: Fedora

[Bug 507131] New: Please update font links and deps

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: Please update font links and deps https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507131 Summary: Please update font links and deps Product: Fedora

[Bug 507144] New: [RFE] repo-font-audit should handle TTC files properly

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: [RFE] repo-font-audit should handle TTC files properly https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507144 Summary: [RFE] repo-font-audit should handle TTC

[Bug 507131] Please update font links and deps

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507131 Jussi Lehtola jussi.leht...@iki.fi changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 507145] New: [RFE] repo-font-audit should check fontconfig files

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: [RFE] repo-font-audit should check fontconfig files https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507145 Summary: [RFE] repo-font-audit should check fontconfig

[Bug 507146] New: [RFE] repo-font-audit should test all the Opentype ID fields

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: [RFE] repo-font-audit should test all the Opentype ID fields https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507146 Summary: [RFE] repo-font-audit should test all

[Bug 507131] Please update font links and deps

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507131 --- Comment #2 from Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net 2009-06-21 05:48:49 EDT --- (In reply to comment #1) I

[Bug 507150] Review Request: gfs-pyrsos-fonts - GFS Pyrsos italic Greek fonts

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507150 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 507151] Review Request: gfs-decker-fonts - GFS Decker Greek fonts

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507151 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 507131] Please update font links and deps

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507131 --- Comment #3 from Fedora Update System upda...@fedoraproject.org 2009-06-21 06:57:30 EDT --- pokerth-0.7-5.fc11 has been

[Bug 495399] Review Request: NotCourier-Sans-sfd-fonts - NotCourier Sans is a re-interpretation of Nimbus Mono.

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495399 --- Comment #7 from Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net 2009-06-21 15:29:48 EDT --- (In reply to comment #6) 1.

[Bug 495399] Review Request: NotCourier-Sans-sfd-fonts - NotCourier Sans is a re-interpretation of Nimbus Mono.

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495399 --- Comment #6 from Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net 2009-06-21 15:29:14 EDT --- 1. the prefix for Open Font

[Bug 477044] [Tracker] Deploy new font packaging guidelines for Fedora 11

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477044 Bug 477044 depends on bug 477450, which changed state. Bug 477450 Summary: [rosegarden4] Please convert to new font packaging

[Bug 477450] [rosegarden4] Please convert to new font packaging guidelines

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477450 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 497646] Upgrade path is broken

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497646 --- Comment #24 from Jens Petersen peter...@redhat.com 2009-06-21 22:23:33 EDT --- (In reply to comment #22) IIRC the

[Bug 507261] New: Package building strategy is inconsistent between sazanami fonts and IPA fonts

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. Summary: Package building strategy is inconsistent between sazanami fonts and IPA fonts https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507261 Summary: Package building

[Bug 507261] Package building strategy is inconsistent between sazanami fonts and IPA fonts

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507261 Akira TAGOH ta...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 507261] Package building strategy is inconsistent between sazanami fonts and IPA fonts

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507261 --- Comment #2 from Takanori MATSUURA t.mat...@gmail.com 2009-06-21 23:56:58 EDT --- But upstream calls these four fonts

[Bug 507261] Package building strategy is inconsistent between sazanami fonts and IPA fonts

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507261 --- Comment #3 from Akira TAGOH ta...@redhat.com 2009-06-22 00:21:50 EDT --- From the definition of font family in our

[Bug 497646] Upgrade path is broken

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497646 --- Comment #25 from seth vidal svi...@redhat.com 2009-06-22 00:27:39 EDT --- 1. did the package get renamed? If so - then

[Bug 507151] Review Request: gfs-decker-fonts - GFS Decker Greek fonts

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507151 Parag AN(पराग) panem...@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 507150] Review Request: gfs-pyrsos-fonts - GFS Pyrsos italic Greek fonts

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507150 Parag AN(पराग) panem...@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added

[Bug 479521] Invalid character in ttf name table regarding copyright that crashes XML marshalling

2009-06-21 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479521 Jens Petersen peter...@redhat.com changed: What|Removed |Added

GFS Theokritos problem

2009-06-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Dear sir, As part of the automated sanity tests we run on the fonts shipped in Fedora, we've detected that the following font files do not declare any English font family name. While it's perfectly fine to declare localized names, making sure one of them is tagged as English makes font management

Travelling

2009-06-21 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
I'm going to be going to Brazil for FISL and a FUDCon this week. I'm not sure what my Internet situation is going to be but if anything comes up send me a message and I'll work on it once I get the message. -Toshio signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Travelling

2009-06-21 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Sunday 21 June 2009 11:35:24 am Toshio Kuratomi wrote: I'm going to be going to Brazil for FISL and a FUDCon this week. I'm not sure what my Internet situation is going to be but if anything comes up send me a message and I'll work on it once I get the message. -Toshio I will be there

Re: Travelling

2009-06-21 Thread Mike McGrath
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Dennis Gilmore wrote: On Sunday 21 June 2009 11:35:24 am Toshio Kuratomi wrote: I'm going to be going to Brazil for FISL and a FUDCon this week. I'm not sure what my Internet situation is going to be but if anything comes up send me a message and I'll work on it once

Re: Travelling

2009-06-21 Thread Jon Stanley
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Mike McGrathmmcgr...@redhat.com wrote: I'll be in Chicago all week this week.  I have comcast so the internet is ok, but there will likely be periods that I am disconnected :) So long as the cable goes out during Cubs games, that's all good :)

Re: Is there a way to automatically update a wiki page?

2009-06-21 Thread Jon Stanley
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:56 PM, susmit shannigrahithinklinux@gmail.com wrote: Great!!! I never knew about this :) Thanks. And it didn't work until Ricky made the mediawiki-unbroken package. Thanks again Ricky! :) ___

reinstall of fc10.

2009-06-21 Thread Reg Clemens
I am in the process of doing a reinstall of fc10, and Ive come across a problem that I know I solved when I first did the install 6mo ago. First, I use twm and xterm, not the current stuff. This may be a bug that the children have 'installed' while playing with this stuff. But: When I login (I

Re: transmission 1.71 not allowing incoming connections?

2009-06-21 Thread Partha
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 02:17:37AM -0400, Andre Robatino wrote: I'm not getting any incoming connections after the latest batch of updates including transmission 1.71, even though transmission itself says the port I'm using is open. The bittorrent-gui client does get incoming connections

Re: Hard Drives not accessible after Update to F11

2009-06-21 Thread Andreas Burget
On 20.06.2009 19:35, stan wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:35:45 +0200 Andreas Burgetandibur...@gmx.de wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:15:51 +0200 Andreas Burgetandiburget gmx de wrote: Hi there, I updated my System via Preupgrade from F10 to F11. The update went smoothly but

Re: transmission 1.71 not allowing incoming connections?

2009-06-21 Thread Andre Robatino
Partha wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 02:17:37AM -0400, Andre Robatino wrote: I'm not getting any incoming connections after the latest batch of updates including transmission 1.71, even though transmission itself says the port I'm using is open. The bittorrent-gui client does get

Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread Frank Murphy
Looking for user experiences with e-book readers. Against maybe buying a 7 netbook for same purpose. Trying to cut down on space use\Paper book purchases. Frank -- jabber | msn | skype: frankly3d (Skype will be scrapped as my im 1st July 2009) http://www.frankly3d.com -- fedora-list mailing

Re: Missing icons

2009-06-21 Thread Robin Price II
Wine does this as well. -- Robin On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Braden McDaniel bra...@endoframe.comwrote: Several packages I've installed subsequent to the initial Fedora 11 install aren't having their icons displayed (in the menu and on launchers). But this isn't the case with *all*

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread jack wallen
Frank Murphy wrote: Looking for user experiences with e-book readers. Against maybe buying a 7 netbook for same purpose. Trying to cut down on space use\Paper book purchases. Frank well, i got a kindle for father's day. it was given to me a few days ago and i LOVE it. AND it runs Linux.

Compiz/LXDE: how to move top of windows above screen?

2009-06-21 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Alt-Left-click-drag works fine for moving windows down, to the sides, but not up where the top of the window would be above the top of the screen. GConf isn't being used, so a GConf-based fix, like gconftool-2 --set /apps/compiz/plugins/move/allscreens/options/constrain_y --type bool 0)

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/21/09, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: Looking for user experiences with e-book readers. Against maybe buying a 7 netbook for same purpose. I periodically review the e-book offerings, and so far I've always come to the conclusion that my 7'' eee pc is much more useful then either

Re: Baffled by a Cable Modem

2009-06-21 Thread dnvot
Sorry about the no subject message. I don't know how it happened (except,of course ,carelessness). On 06/20/2009 10:38 AM, Jim wrote: What your forgetting is the mac# from a previous device, Computer ,etc, some cable modems will retain that mac # and not connect to any new devices until

Re: Client connect to NFS server as user?

2009-06-21 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 15:44 -0700, Craig White wrote: Yes thanks, I googled that. I find nothing intuitive about their GUI. maybe not but that hardly is a worthwhile discussion here. If you want, you can install Fedora on that system but a terminal is clearly not a GUI. Heh, think the

Re: cups doesn't get the right ppd file

2009-06-21 Thread Martín Marqués
2009/6/21 Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com I think you probably have to use either system-config-printer or the cups web interface (http://localhost:631) and if the one you choose cannot print a test page, delete the printer and set the printer up again. If you want to ask the list, you

Re: cups doesn't get the right ppd file

2009-06-21 Thread Martín Marqués
2009/6/21 Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com: I think you probably have to use either system-config-printer or the cups web interface (http://localhost:631) and if the one you choose cannot print a test page, delete the printer and set the printer up again. If you want to ask the list, you

Re: Client connect to NFS server as user?

2009-06-21 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:27 -0700, Craig White wrote: but the truth is that using automounts such as /etc/auto.home or /auto.misc is even better I wanted to use auto mounts before myself, but the one problem I ran into, was if the directory wasn't mounted, and I wanted to download a file off

Re: x86_64 install stuck no driver found

2009-06-21 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 21:13 -0400, B Wooster wrote: Strange - says unable to find driver for this installation type - am booting off DVD, and it read the DVD, booted, and then says No driver found? Is that referring to some other device and not the CD/DVD drive? I also tried the i386 DVD,

Re: RocketRAID 1740 and Fedora 10

2009-06-21 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 17:26 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: FYI: I'm doing all of this just so I can run FreeNAS in a KVM VM on my PC. I don't think freebsd can read from or write to Linux LVM, so I'll have to use NFS on top in order use the storage in FreeNAS. A few hours after writing

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 14:16 +0200, Andras Simon wrote: On 6/21/09, Frank Murphy frankl...@gmail.com wrote: Looking for user experiences with e-book readers. Against maybe buying a 7 netbook for same purpose. I periodically review the e-book offerings, and so far I've always come to the

Re: Getting Puppetd To Work

2009-06-21 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 06/20/2009 11:16 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert L Cochran wrote: How do I rename my server to be puppet as you suggest? If you have local DNS setup, you can add puppet as a CNAME for your server. If not, you could add it to /etc/hosts. I've always done the former.

Fedora 11: Finally I can ditch XP

2009-06-21 Thread Vijay Gill
Hi all (and thanks to Fedora developers) With Fedora 11 I can ditch XP (and also Mandriva) which I use for my desktop. I have been using Linux from 1996/1997 (I am not sure, but one of those years and it was slackware) and soon moved to RedHat Linux. I also saw the birth of Fedora and all the

Re: Fedora 11: Finally I can ditch XP

2009-06-21 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Vijay Gill vijay.s.g...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all (and thanks to Fedora developers) With Fedora 11 I can ditch XP (and also Mandriva) which I use for my desktop. I have been using Linux from 1996/1997 (I am not sure, but one of those years and it was

Re: Fedora 11: Finally I can ditch XP

2009-06-21 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Vijay Gill vijay.s.g...@gmail.com wrote: So far I always wanted to convince my wife to let me have Linux as main desktop and if she needs XP (for software like MS-Money, she has been entering data into it since 2003) You must have missed this... tell your

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread Andras Simon
On 6/21/09, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: OT: I hadn't heard of FBReader, but I just installed it on F11 to have a look. Before I form an opinion I need to be able to read at least the introductory text, but it's so garbled as to be illegible (all the letters are there, but

anyone using Inspiron 15n with fedora?

2009-06-21 Thread David L
I'm thinking of getting a Dell Inspiron 15n, but I've had negative experiences with Intel graphics in recent years (slow and buggy). Both of the Dell Ubuntu systems (laptop and desktop) come with Intel graphics. The 15n laptop has an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD, which I didn't find

Time-switched desktop background?

2009-06-21 Thread Colin Paul Adams
I can set my screen-saver to display a random picture from my Pictures folder, and it will keep changing it every few seconds. But only when the screen-saver is active - I'd like to do the same for my desktop background (GNOME). Is there a way to do this? -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire --

Re: Fedora 11: Finally I can ditch XP

2009-06-21 Thread Vijay Gill
2009/6/21 Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Vijay Gill vijay.s.g...@gmail.com wrote: So far I always wanted to convince my wife to let me have Linux as main desktop and if she needs XP (for software like MS-Money, she has been entering data into it since

Re: Getting Puppetd To Work

2009-06-21 Thread Todd Zullinger
Robert L Cochran wrote: If you have local DNS setup, you can add puppet as a CNAME for your server. If not, you could add it to /etc/hosts. I've always done the former. Okay, so that would work like this: puppet. CNAME deafeng3.signtype.info.

F11 install: cant install via NFS - ISO

2009-06-21 Thread Andrea
Hi, I'm trying to install F11 via a ISO image via NFS. This on a PS3. I've tried the graphic installer and the text mode (passing boot option linux text askmethod) When I run in text mode the error seems to be that anaconda cannot find images/install.img at the path I have entered. Now, that

Re: Fedora 11: Finally I can ditch XP

2009-06-21 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Vijay Gill vijay.s.g...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/21 Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Vijay Gill vijay.s.g...@gmail.com wrote: So far I always wanted to convince my wife to let me have Linux as main desktop and if

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread inode0
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:01 AM, jack wallenjlwal...@monkeypantz.net wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: Looking for user experiences with e-book readers. Against maybe buying a 7 netbook for same purpose. Trying to cut down on space use\Paper book purchases. well, i got a kindle for father's day.

Re: Fedora 11: Finally I can ditch XP

2009-06-21 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Vijay Gill vijay.s.g...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/6/21 Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Vijay Gill vijay.s.g...@gmail.com wrote: So far I

Re: Client connect to NFS server as user?

2009-06-21 Thread Bob Goodwin
Mike Chambers wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:27 -0700, Craig White wrote: but the truth is that using automounts such as /etc/auto.home or /auto.misc is even better I wanted to use auto mounts before myself, but the one problem I ran into, was if the directory wasn't mounted, and I

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread Wendell Nichols
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:01 AM, jack wallenjlwal...@monkeypantz.net wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: Looking for user experiences with e-book readers. Against maybe buying a 7 netbook for same purpose. Trying to cut down on space use\Paper book purchases. well, i got a kindle for

Re: Fedora 11: Finally I can ditch XP

2009-06-21 Thread Vijay Gill
I have no experience with GNUCash are you sure there´s not a way to automagically import data?. Have you asked? Sometimes while an app doesn´t have a function it might be supplied by third party add-ons, utilities, plugins, scripts, etc. There´s also  Moneydance, which is cross-platform and

Re: Getting Puppetd To Work

2009-06-21 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 06/21/2009 10:32 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Robert L Cochran wrote: If you have local DNS setup, you can add puppet as a CNAME for your server. If not, you could add it to /etc/hosts. I've always done the former. Okay, so that would work like this: puppet.

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2009-06-21 Thread Jim
On 06/21/2009 12:51 AM, Armin Moradi wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:05 PM, dn...@yahoo.com mailto:dn...@yahoo.com wrote: Message: 8 Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:42:14 -0400 From: Mail Lists li...@sapience.com mailto:li...@sapience.com Subject: Re: Baffled by a Cable Modem

Re: Slide show maker for F11 ?

2009-06-21 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 19:34 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: I need to make a slide show for a wedding. I am running F11. What are my options ? What are you going to show the slides using? The computer, or are you wanting to make a DVD to play on something else? And do you want to randomly show

gnome-keyring pop up from ssh

2009-06-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
For some reason, on one of my machines, the first time I run ssh I get a pop-up to unlock my keyring. I don't use a keyring. How do I turn off this pop-up? pgp6GSdELKmzc.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread steve
Andras Simon wrote: On 6/21/09, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: OT: I hadn't heard of FBReader, but I just installed it on F11 to have a look. Before I form an opinion I need to be able to read at least the introductory text, but it's so garbled as to be illegible (all the

Fedora 11 qemu-kvm virtual machine missing sound hw

2009-06-21 Thread Andy Wang
Hi all, I'm trying to see if the qemu-kvm stuff in F11 is a good replacement for me for VirtualBox and running into one problem. I can't seem to get the VM to add a sound device to a windows XP guest. In the Virtual Machine itself, a es1370 sound device was automatically created. I removed it

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread steve
Andras Simon wrote: On 6/21/09, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: OT: I hadn't heard of FBReader, but I just installed it on F11 to have a look. Before I form an opinion I need to be able to read at least the introductory text, but it's so garbled as to be illegible (all the

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread Amar Kumar Padhi
I have a 6 BeBook ebook reader. This is the closest to an Open standard supporting device. No proprietary formats or DRM locks, it supports most popular formats. It is a very simple device, I just connect it via USB to my Fedora notebook or make use of an SD card to copy files to BeBook. I

Re: x86_64 install stuck no driver found

2009-06-21 Thread B Wooster
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Mike Chambersm...@miketc.net wrote: Like I mentioned below, why not just try the install as is and let it try to detect your drivers first?  I use forcedeth and it's detected automatically as well. I did not see any option to get out of that infinite loop - get

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread jack wallen
steve wrote: Andras Simon wrote: On 6/21/09, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: OT: I hadn't heard of FBReader, but I just installed it on F11 to have a look. Before I form an opinion I need to be able to read at least the introductory text, but it's so garbled as to be

How to tell if kernel compiled from kernel.org is x86_64 or just 32 bit?

2009-06-21 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear fellow Fedora users, Is there a way to tell if a kernel is 64 bit or 32 bit? If one compiles and installs a kernel from kernel.org. Why am I asking? I have a 64 bit Fedora 11 installed and it showed 2.6.29.4-???x86_64 at the end so I know it is a 64 bit kernel. I copy the config of

Editing /etc/hosts On Puppetmaster Server

2009-06-21 Thread Robert L Cochran
Besides having a CNAME record on my DNS box (which is entirely separate from the box that I'm running puppetmaster on), I experimented a bit and on the puppetmaster server I edited the /etc/hosts localhost entry like this, appending 'puppet' to the end of the line: 127.0.0.1

PulseAudio oddity

2009-06-21 Thread Andrew Kenton Mitchell
I have a series of Fedora 11 audio servers with PCI Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster sound cards. Those with the following packages work fine and the PulseAudio server recognizes the SoundBlaster device. pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.15-11.fc11.i586

Re: How to tell if kernel compiled from kernel.org is x86_64 or just 32 bit?

2009-06-21 Thread Robert L Cochran
I'm not sure how it works for the kernel images because those are compressed. You can use file otherwise: [...@deafeng3 ~]$ file /usr/bin/zip /usr/bin/zip: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped Here is my

Re: F11 install: cant install via NFS - ISO

2009-06-21 Thread Andrew Parker
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Andreamariofut...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install F11 via a ISO image via NFS. This on a PS3. I've tried the graphic installer and the text mode (passing boot option linux text askmethod) When I run in text mode the error seems to be that

Re: Book Readers (E-Books) w.r.t. Fedora Interoperation

2009-06-21 Thread Richard England
Wendell Nichols wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:01 AM, jack wallenjlwal...@monkeypantz.net wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: Looking for user experiences with e-book readers. Against maybe buying a 7 netbook for same purpose. Trying to cut down on space use\Paper book purchases. well, i

Fwd: Problems Installing Fedora x86_64

2009-06-21 Thread Daniel J Celta
Hi, After succesfully installing Fedora 10 x86_64 on a AMD64bit machine. I am not able to have the machine recognize the newly installed operating system on the local drive. It would try to reinstall fedora as if no operating system was present.I have reinstalled it but no luck

problem with pidgin and Yahoo Messenger

2009-06-21 Thread Craig White
all of a sudden, I cannot connect to Yahoo Messenger account with Pidgin F10 computer and F11 laptop, both say connecting but never error and never connect. I can connect to my AIM accounts using Pidgin. I can use Windows version of Yahoo Messenger and connect but not pidgin. Has anyone

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