Re: Two Different YaST2 Control Center displays

2008-08-27 Thread Mrohs, Ray
Thanks again. I'm not sure if Gnome was there originally or snuck in during the SP1 upgrade, but I'm glad its gone. If I knew the characteristics of a Gnome-style screen I would have had a clue! However, supportconfig appears to be a good diagnostic tool in cases like these. Those are good points

Kinda OT: Something to reflect...

2008-08-27 Thread John Campbell
All right, so we're penguinheads instead of parrotheads. That being said, my wife showed me: http://www.fingerhut.com/ProductGroup.aspx?offergroupxid=64378 -soup -- John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot com Why OS X? Because making Unix user-friendly was easier

Re: Kinda OT: Something to reflect...

2008-08-27 Thread John Summerfield
John Campbell wrote: All right, so we're penguinheads instead of parrotheads. That being said, my wife showed me: http://www.fingerhut.com/ProductGroup.aspx?offergroupxid=64378 A few years ago, there was an oil spill in the Bass Strait. Lots of penguins got well oiled, and Australians

Re: Kinda OT: Something to reflect...

2008-08-27 Thread Evans, Kevin R
That word would be sweater, which I do when I put one on g. K -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:16 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Kinda OT: Something to reflect... John

Re: Kinda OT: Something to reflect...

2008-08-27 Thread Alan Cox
The penguins would be fairy penguins, a big one would reach as far as my shin. The same, I think, as the one Linus met. Yes - I've met the same raft of penguins at that zoo. They are fairy penguins and tiny. I think Linus rather over-dramatises being bitten ;)

Draft redbook: z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook for RHEL 5.2

2008-08-27 Thread Brad Hinson
I'm pleased to announce that a draft of the RHEL 5.2 cookbook is now available at: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg247492.html Some highlighted changes from the RHEL 5.0 book: - z/VM updated from v5.2 to 5.4 - Moved away from dual boot approach, in favor of separate master

Re: Kinda OT: Something to reflect...

2008-08-27 Thread John Summerfield
Alan Cox wrote: The penguins would be fairy penguins, a big one would reach as far as my shin. The same, I think, as the one Linus met. Yes - I've met the same raft of penguins at that zoo. They are fairy penguins and tiny. I think Linus rather over-dramatises being bitten ;) In the 50s,

Re: Differece in RED Hat and Suse

2008-08-27 Thread Scott Rohling
To answer the original post -- I'd say anyone used to being a Linux SA under RH will make the transition to SuSE without a problem. There are differences in where things are kept - there are differences in package managers (although I've seen a few posts hinting 'yum' can be used on SuSE) -

Re: Two Different YaST2 Control Center displays

2008-08-27 Thread Scott Rohling
Hmmm.. getting rid of YaST :-) I confess I'm not a big YaST fan so it doesn't seem a great loss.. (please don't flog me - people rarely agree with me on this) Congrats on getting rid of alsa!! I don't want the s390x distro to depart so much from other platforms that it becomes a

Re: Differece in RED Hat and Suse

2008-08-27 Thread Mark Post
On 8/27/2008 at 11:02 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SUSE tends to be more 'bleeding edge' and RH tends to be more 'stable' (please - no flame wars on that - it's just my impression that RH is very focused on stability - more so than SUSE). Having

Re: Differece in RED Hat and Suse

2008-08-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
I have to say I'm very impressed that SuSE can backport so many of those new features that Linux dev is pumping out into the service stream without requiring us to get to new versions, releases. We have to go through so many hours of certifications and checkouts and other vendor concurrence to

Re: Two Different YaST2 Control Center displays

2008-08-27 Thread John Summerfield
Scott Rohling wrote: Hmmm.. getting rid of YaST :-) I confess I'm not a big YaST fan so it doesn't seem a great loss.. (please don't flog me - people rarely agree with me on this) Congrats on getting rid of alsa!! I don't want the s390x distro to depart so much from other platforms