On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 04:57 +, g wrote:
Ric Moore wrote:
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When I first started using Linux, I bugged the living heck out of anyone
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fsck themselves while leaving them liking it! :) Ric
i am really going to enjoy checking f9 respin. i am going to see what
all i can get into
On Monday 21 July 2008 04:44:09 Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 00:44 +, g wrote:
i am still holding a thread from another list that op seems like she
is intentionally ignoring two of my suggestions that may well have
cleared her problem. maybe not. i do not know, but i do know i will
The live CD distros which I have used
1. DyneBolic (best distro for me)
2. Ubuntu (took hell lot of time to boot)
3. Gentoo (couldn't start GUI)
4. DSL (not as good as DyneBolic)
See guys, the problem with using LiveCD is that I can't save my data and
there is no customization.
Every time I
Tim:
You see that from time to time (those who ask advice about something
they claim they don't understand, but won't accept the advice).
Sometimes you wonder if they're trolling, there's plenty of people who
get their jollies from deliberately wasting other people's time.
Anne Wilson:
See, one of the problems with open source is
.
THERE'S NO SUPPORT: The not-so-good news is that there's no single source of
information. A simple question may result in multiple, conflicting answers
with no authoritative source.
...
So, when you get tons of help but leading to different
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 13:29 +0530, aakash sharma wrote:
The live CD distros which I have used
1. DyneBolic (best distro for me)
2. Ubuntu (took hell lot of time to boot)
3. Gentoo (couldn't start GUI)
4. DSL (not as good as DyneBolic)
See guys, the problem with using LiveCD is that I
My project requires to build an GUI interface with a lot of C-code running
in background.
It's kind of power saving project.
We are doing this on linux coz it's clear and we know where to strike.
This can't be done on Windows.
But my approach is not just for the project.
I said, I want to
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:20 +0530, aakash sharma wrote:
See, one of the problems with open source is
.
THERE'S NO SUPPORT:
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Firstly, there's support with open source software, just the same as
closed source. The commercial RHEL has official support, and is
On Monday 21 July 2008 08:59:57 aakash sharma wrote:
The live CD distros which I have used
1. DyneBolic (best distro for me)
2. Ubuntu (took hell lot of time to boot)
3. Gentoo (couldn't start GUI)
4. DSL (not as good as DyneBolic)
See guys, the problem with using LiveCD is that I can't
On Monday 21 July 2008 10:16:16 aakash sharma wrote:
My project requires to build an GUI interface with a lot of C-code running
in background.
It's kind of power saving project.
We are doing this on linux coz it's clear and we know where to strike.
This can't be done on Windows.
But my
Hi
Or you can install Fedora as usual, and install a more lightweight
desktop like, xfce or icewm or windowmaker and change your session at gdm.
Also helps if one disable a few services.
Regards
Marcelo
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 21 July 2008 08:59:57 aakash sharma wrote:
The live
On Monday 21 July 2008 09:50:34 aakash sharma wrote:
See, one of the problems with open source is
.
THERE'S NO SUPPORT: The not-so-good news is that there's no single source
of information. A simple question may result in multiple, conflicting
answers with no authoritative source.
aakash sharma wrote:
I said, I want to switch to Linux as I am fed up of the Window Crashes and
bore graphics
Everything else you said sounds sensible,
but in my experience neither Windows XP nor Fedora 9 crash very often.
The difference from my perspective is that if Fedora crashes
I am
aakash sharma:
THERE'S NO SUPPORT:
Tim:
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Robert P. J. Day:
there is, of course, the irony of his making this claim on a fedora
support mailing list.
;-)
It's at this point where I refer to my other message where I said
something about users who claim that nobody helps
I'll just comment on a few bits of your post. Others will chip in on
the bits that they can.
aakash sharma:
3. Use a WebServer like Apache
You can do that with your PC, no problems. Even less powered PCs.
4. Listen to music files like mp3 and play videos of various formats
Music should be
Ric Moore wrote:
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Ha! Join the club!
i thought i had. blag
I'll never catch up! But, that's the good part!
if i ever do, i will know something is wrong. best part.
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Tim wrote and aakash sharma wrote:
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The live CD distros which I have used
1. DyneBolic (best distro for me)
2. Ubuntu (took hell lot of time to boot)
3. Gentoo (couldn't start GUI)
4. DSL (not as good as DyneBolic)
See guys, the problem with using LiveCD is that I can't save my data
On Monday 21 July 2008 12:05:50 Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
Hi
Or you can install Fedora as usual, and install a more lightweight
desktop like, xfce or icewm or windowmaker and change your session at gdm.
Also helps if one disable a few services.
The only time I tried xfce I found it no better
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:35:47PM -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
aakash sharma wrote:
Hi Anne
Thanks for the advice and help
I just can't upgrade my RAM at least for 9 months.
Then set up a swap partition (or at least a swap file) in order to start
swapping. Without it, you are just
g:
all livecds that i have used allow you to save customization and data
to a floppy, usb 'whatever', or to a hard drive
Tim:
But it's not exactly easy to do,
why not?
It's going to depend on various things. The live CDs I've tried in the
past didn't let me save customisations, I've had
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 02:28 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
In general, if you don't know what you are doing then maybe Linux
isn't for you?
Oh please. Can you avoid that elitist attitude? There are new comers
to Linux
aakash sharma wrote:
The live CD distros which I have used
1. DyneBolic (best distro for me)
2. Ubuntu (took hell lot of time to boot)
3. Gentoo (couldn't start GUI)
4. DSL (not as good as DyneBolic)
See guys, the problem with using LiveCD is that I can't save my data and
there is no
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 21:47 +0930, Tim wrote:
And you've got two ways of saving anything with a live disc: There's
multisession discs with some spare space still left on them, which
will
have some limits. Or using a second drive - you mightn't have one, or
a
spare port to connect one (one
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 02:20:34PM +0530, aakash sharma wrote:
See, one of the problems with open source is
.
THERE'S NO SUPPORT: The not-so-good news is that there's no single
source of information..
Aha but there is a single source of information. It is the source
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 16:35 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
All i need to do is a project on Linux. That's why I want to install
Fedora.
My project doesn't require latest features of FEDORA 9.
So, can u tell me which version of Fedora will work somewhat smooth
like
XP on my system.
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 05:59 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:20 +0530, aakash sharma wrote:
See, one of the problems with open source is
.
THERE'S NO SUPPORT:
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
there is, of course, the irony
My system's configuration is
Pentium 4 2.4GHz
256MB RAM
160GB HDD
I know it's quite old but I wanna stick with it now
I want to install fedora with Win xp.
I already have xp installed on my system.
I tried to install fedora 9 but it just crashed.
All my data got corrupted as i had made
On Sunday 20 July 2008 20:55:49 aakash sharma wrote:
My system's configuration is
Pentium 4 2.4GHz
256MB RAM
160GB HDD
I know it's quite old but I wanna stick with it now
I want to install fedora with Win xp.
I already have xp installed on my system.
I tried to install fedora 9 but it
Hi Anne
Thanks for the advice and help
I just can't upgrade my RAM at least for 9 months.
All i need to do is a project on Linux. That's why I want to install Fedora.
My project doesn't require latest features of FEDORA 9.
So, can u tell me which version of Fedora will work somewhat smooth like
aakash sharma wrote:
Hi Anne
Thanks for the advice and help
I just can't upgrade my RAM at least for 9 months.
Then set up a swap partition (or at least a swap file) in order to start
swapping. Without it, you are just going to crash when you run out of
memory. You should be able to use a
On Sunday 20 July 2008 21:16:04 aakash sharma wrote:
Hi Anne
Thanks for the advice and help
I just can't upgrade my RAM at least for 9 months.
All i need to do is a project on Linux. That's why I want to install
Fedora. My project doesn't require latest features of FEDORA 9.
So, can u
Dear Kevin
Should I go with FEDORA or any other distribution?
I like fedora because it's based on red hat and they are most trusted
worldwide.
Plus it's interface is quite cool.
So, just guide me.
Regards
Aakash
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aakash sharma wrote:
My system's configuration is
Pentium 4 2.4GHz
256MB RAM
160GB HDD
I know it's quite old but I wanna stick with it now
I want to install fedora with Win xp.
I already have xp installed on my system.
I tried to install fedora 9 but it just crashed.
All my data got
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
In general, if you don't know what you are doing then maybe Linux isn't
for you?
Oh please. Can you avoid that elitist attitude? There are new comers to
Linux and Fedora all the time and not all of them are experts. These are
valuable users to the community and we
Thanks Anne, Mikel, Kevin and Rahul for your valuable help.
I guess, I am newbie to Linux but not to this computer world.
Thank You all for ur help.
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Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Oh please. Can you avoid that elitist attitude? There are new comers to
well said.
as an added and side note about 'newbie' folks, do think you could
influence anyone at redhat/fedora to set up email server to convert
'html' and 'base 64' to 'text/plain' before sending
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 02:28 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
In general, if you don't know what you are doing then maybe Linux isn't
for you?
Oh please. Can you avoid that elitist attitude? There are new comers to
Linux and Fedora all the time and not all of them
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 02:28 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
In general, if you don't know what you are doing then maybe Linux isn't
for you?
Oh please. Can you avoid that elitist attitude? There are new comers to
Linux and Fedora all the time and
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 02:13 +0530, aakash sharma wrote:
Dear Kevin
Should I go with FEDORA or any other distribution?
I like fedora because it's based on red hat and they are most trusted
worldwide.
Plus it's interface is quite cool.
So, just guide me.
The interface (desktop) IS
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 21:42 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
Do you have Windows data in there|/ \if not, let the installer delete the
partition. Linux partitions are best created with Linux tools, so again, do
it in the installer.
Whoops! Forgot to mention defragging the drive!! Gotta get
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
Sorry guys,
I was just trying to get him to make a decision on his own instead
of asking for a handout.
apologies accepted here. tho my acceptance is not of most concern,
but of op.
I told him to create some swap space and try
again. I don't think he has.
may
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 00:44 +, g wrote:
i am still holding a thread from another list that op seems like she
is intentionally ignoring two of my suggestions that may well have
cleared her problem. maybe not. i do not know, but i do know i will
not do to my system what she, or someone else
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 20:02 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 02:28 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
In general, if you don't know what you are doing then maybe Linux isn't
for you?
Oh please. Can you avoid that elitist
Tim wrote:
You see that from time to time (those who ask advice about something
they claim they don't understand, but won't accept the advice).
in time, they are learned and ignored.
Sometimes you wonder if they're trolling, there's plenty of people who
get their jollies from deliberately
Ric Moore wrote:
snip
When I first started using Linux, I bugged the living heck out of anyone
snip
fsck themselves while leaving them liking it! :) Ric
i am really going to enjoy checking f9 respin. i am going to see what
all i can get into setting up my 2wire modem for wireless and then
Ric Moore wrote:
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Whoops!
' also Forgot to mention defragging the drive!! '
{chuckle, chuckle.}
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