Re: Upgrade to SL5.3

2009-03-25 Thread Takashi Ichihara
Troy Dawson wrote: John Summerfield wrote: Takashi Ichihara wrote: David Nitz wrote Hi, I did (or tried to do) a yum-update upgrade from 5.2 to 5.3. The files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ point to the 5.3 repositories, but /etc/issue still says SL 5.2. Yumex does not show any available updates. Is

Re: SL 5.3 with IceWM from SL 5.2 mini_livecd (long post)

2009-03-25 Thread Steven J. Yellin
Regarding Issue #2: Try looking in /etc/gdm/custom.conf for lines beginning with AutomaticLoginEnable AutomaticLogin Steven Yellin On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Radu-Cristian Fotescu wrote: Folks, I might be polluting this list, but I'm having several questions and observations, so I thought

Re: SL 5.3 with IceWM from SL 5.2 mini_livecd (long post)

2009-03-25 Thread Troy Dawson
Hi, Thanks for the feedback. It is a bit long, but it is some good feedback. If you don't mind, I'm going to snip some parts, and just answer the parts that I quickly know the answer to. Radu-Cristian Fotescu wrote: ... ** Question #1: Can one perform an X install with IceWM by only using

Re: SL 5.3 with IceWM from SL 5.2 mini_livecd (long post)

2009-03-25 Thread Mark Stodola
I have almost these exact specs, except mine is a P3 and not a celeron. I use Xubuntu (xfce) and have found it a pleasure to use. -Mark Radu-Cristian Fotescu wrote: Folks, I might be polluting this list, but I'm having several questions and observations, so I thought that sending a mail to

Re: SL 5.3 with IceWM from SL 5.2 mini_livecd (long post)

2009-03-25 Thread Urs Beyerle
Hi, Good to hear that you like the SL mini_livecd. And thanks for the feedback! I will try to answers some of your questions. Maybe I will come back later with some more answers. The initial idea of the mini_livecd was that it should fit on a real Mini-CD (about 210MB). (I don't know, if you

Re: SL 5.3 with IceWM from SL 5.2 mini_livecd (long post)

2009-03-25 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
Because the RHEL RPMs tend to become bigger and bigger the SL53 mini_livecd will be around 285MB, which is still reasonable small, I think. As long as a normal CD has to be used... http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/53/i386/. Thanks. I know that other LiveCDs have a much

Re: SL 5.3 with IceWM from SL 5.2 mini_livecd (long post)

2009-03-25 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
Your wishes are nedit, xfe, gqview and rxvt-unicode Of course, I forgot about WiCD! Everybody uses it nowadays! I don't use wifi, so I couldn't tell, but is it needed? Is it so very gorgeous? Would it be a significant addition to usability? R-C