Re: New Text Editor - A Question.....

Ok I checked it out?...and its called "Gnome Text Editor"...its not bad...pretty basic, but sometimes that's JUST what you need...not "Vim" with mysterious button combinations or any of it's derivatives, not a full blown Geany or VS Code...just a nice and simple text editor. I mean don't get

New Text Editor - A Question.....

Just wondering ladies and gentlemen. Is there any way to get the new text editor to use  a "dark" theme? I love its simple interface and the fact that the text can be BOLDED again! But this bright white?..is KILLING my eyes! Just wondering is all! Thanks! WEGO II

Re: Fedora Laptop?

I believe Lenovo does ? (did?) And then  there's Slimbook from Spain...didn't KDE also make a laptop...with Fedora as an offering?  at least IIRC EGO II On 3/11/22 00:10, Todd Chester via users wrote: Hi All, Anyone know of someone selling laptops with Fedora preinstalled? Many

Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33??

wrote: On 9 Sep 2021 at 8:21, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: From: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." Subject:Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33?? To: "Michael D. Setzer II via users" Date sent: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 08:21:23 -0400 Send reply to

Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33??

I couldn't remember which key it was...so I found this...maybe one of these might help?... https://www.4winkey.com/windows-tips/how-to-access-enter-bios-on-dell.html EGO II On 9/9/21 8:35 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 9 Sep 2021 at 8:21, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: From

Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33??

Would wiping the computer's hard drives help in any way?you know...like working with a "clean slate"?and I believe its F12 for getting in the the Bios?..but F2 or F8 to get to the BIOS settings...I only ask because I recall a time when I had a Dell Vostro and a Dell XPS...they both

Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33??

And you've ensured that UEFI has been turned off in the BIOS?...what about switching from Compatibility to "ACHI"?I've noticed that sometimes? that simple switch can work wondersjust a suggestion. Cheers EGO II On 9/9/21 8:04 AM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: I've found

Re: Fedora 34 does not install on laptop, screen freezes

Is there any way for you to connect an external display and then to try installing? (Just to eliminate the possibility of the graphics card being the issue) and then if it DOES install, then once you disconnect you should be ok. That's what I would do. Cheers! EGO II On 8/18/21 12:35

Re: Font Issue.....

Hmmnever though of changing my keyboard layout. I might give that a try...as for the walking / sitting? I'm going to have to break down and get a standing desk, with an electric motor...so that I can alternate between the two, I can only say thank goodness I was never "heavy" in my

Re: fedora on amd ryzen 7

I too was wondering about this, as I am in the process of building a PC for both my son and I...he wants an AMD Ryzen 7 "5xxx" seriesI was going to go with the Ryzen 5 "5xxx" series. Nice to know it works with no issues. Now if only I can get some decent GPU's without having to pay "NASA"

Is This Windows?.....

kI'm just gonna ask this: Why is it now that when I get notifications for updates I'm being prompted to "restart & Install"?.. W    T    H! Is this WINDOWS!?...I have enjoyed the fact that I could update my system and use my computer until I was ready to shutdown /

Windows??.....

Ok.so I'm just gonna ask, because I've noticed something. There was a time I could update my machine (Lenovo ThinkPad T-430 / T-420 laptops.) that wouldn't take long and I'd be able to continue to use my machines for hours until I was ready to either reboot, shutdown, etc. Is it me?...or

Re: strange behavior: it slows down and then recovers

the move backbut for now I'm good. Thanks for the suggestion!! Cheers! EGO II On 10/6/19 9:13 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 10/6/19 6:08 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Been noticing the same thing on my F30 system as wellI don't think its FedoraI think its Mozilla's Firefox

Re: strange behavior: it slows down and then recovers

Been noticing the same thing on my F30 system as wellI don't think its FedoraI think its Mozilla's Firefox, this behavior also has hit my OpenSuSE and my CEntOS laptopssomething is eating up the RAM on them when Firefox is running...and it seems to go back to being snappy and fast

Re: Opening Files With Root Privilege?.....

On 7/13/19 3:20 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 7/12/19 6:57 PM, Tony Nelson wrote: On 19-07-12 15:47:58, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: There was a time when you could go to the terminal and type in "sudo nautilus" and you'd get the file system to open with root powers so that you could

Opening Files With Root Privilege?.....

Hello all, There was a time when you could go to the terminal and type in "sudo nautilus" and you'd get the file system to open with root powers so that you could do things and manipulate files. This seems to have been removed / stopped / taken away? So how do I gain the ability to work on

Re: PSA: All Firefox extensions are getting disabled, one by one

I'm just going to stop using it until this blows over. Thank goodness for the Open Source community! They've got more browsers available than any other platform! I think I'll give Epiphany (GNome Web) another go, I'm not big on multi-media stuff, so I'm not in desperate need of codecs and what

Re: Feature request: pre-tweaking

I guess we all have our own methods..as I don't have that many apps that I customize (aside from Thunderbird!can't live without that one!) and with all the calendars, contacts etc?...I just grab the profile that was created when I first installed and configured itand transfer it to

Re: Stuck Kernel Version.....

Well, seems I don't have to sweat this anymore, as my 1 yr old niece through her "overly active" curiosity, ensured that I will be needing to buy a new SSD and having the insides of my T-420 "blow dried"! LoL!..Thanks to all for the advice. And thank goodness for 2TB USB drives and my

Re: tablets?

I had once seen a YouTube video of someone running Fedora using the GNome interface, but that was a while ago, I don't know if anyone's tried getting it on there recently. EGO II On 1/22/19 10:54 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Any sign of Fedora on a tablet? -T

Re: Old Info?.....

On 11/27/18 5:24 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: There is some disagreement on what you are actually asking here so you are getting different answers.  I assumed that you didn't have entries for the F29 kernels, in which case you need to recreate the grub.cfg as I described.  Others have understood

Re: Old Info?.....

On 11/27/18 3:17 AM, dsavage--- via users wrote: Eddie, Easy. At a CLI prompt type: ls -l /boot | grep vmlinuz You should see a "vmlinuz-0" rescue kernel followed by the three latest installed kernels. For the most recently updated F29 these will be 4.19.2-300, 4.19.2-301, and

Re: Old Info?.....

On 11/27/18 3:36 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: kernel 4.14 is quite old now and probably is from F27.  What does "rpm -q kernel" show? Hey Samuel!...thanks for the reply!typing "rpm -q kernel" gives me: kernel-4.14.8-300.fc27.x86_64 kernel-4.19.2-301.fc29.x86_64

Old Info?.....

Hello all, I don't wanna go into a long song and dance so I'll make this short and simple: Running F-29 on  Lenovo ThinkPad T420 I've updated and everything is running smoothly But When its first starting up?...and it shows the kernels that are available (along with the rescue option)

No "su" / Admin account in Fedora 29?

Hello all, I was just wondering how to go about creating the "su" / admin account for F-29? I installed the beta and it only created the main user,...I'm almost certain that in F-28 there was an option upon install to create the admin/root account? I didn't see it in the beta, is it gone? is

Re: How do I set the run target and turn off services on a non running installation ?

On 03/06/2017 12:37 PM, linux guy wrote: I have a non booting installation that I need to get running. I would like to know how to change the run target to the command line and disable several services that are causing issues during the boot process. How does one manually change the run

Re: Strange thing...a hidden kernel, a stealth kernel!!! running on my Fedora 25.

On 03/01/2017 07:50 PM, renaud.l...@gmail.com wrote: I run Fedora 25 on my laptop,on a dedicated partition,other OSs on other partitions,and a strange thing happens: On my Fedora 25 /boot/ directory I only have kernels 4.2.3 and 4.9.12 the most recent(and a rescue kernel not numbered).However

Re: Worried About Swap - MISSING?

Thank you so much! I was worried that something was wrong with my upgrade from F24 to F25! I will next attempt to figure out the "single finger-scroll" issue. (it only works with 2 fingersand there's no option that allows me to change it)...but that is one of the jobs of using

Re: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem

On 10/31/2016 04:31 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 10/31/2016 01:02 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: In certain cases isn't there a way to format a drive using the GPT option? (I believe it's in "Disks") and then you select the drive in question.then go to the upper right h

Re: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem

On 10/31/2016 11:20 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 10/30/2016 07:31 PM, fred roller wrote: System is detecting... you are being assigned sdd in your sequence but the system is choking on the size. ... seems to some extent limited to 2Tb according to this[1] and similar articles eluding to a

Re: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem

On 10/30/2016 04:15 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I just purchased 3 WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drives that I had hoped to use for archive files for some digital images. Looks like WD has made it difficult to use for Linux. The google searches that I did stepped me through mounting

Re: RH Linux 5.2, Kernel 2.0.36, SCSI Disks => VM? + Nostalgia . .

It's interesting indeed to see if this works.please keep us posted as to how this turns out! On Oct 4, 2016 8:04 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:49:55 +1100 > Philip Rhoades wrote: > > > work out how to load into virt-manager or something > > If you

Re: Upgrade to F23 breaks Adobe Reader

I was about to recommend an uninstall and re-install. When I realized? This ain't Windows!! On Sep 16, 2016 1:34 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 09/16/2016 01:04 AM, Stephen Davies wrote: > > Following last night's upgrade to F23, Adobe Reader now gives: > > > >

Re: Security vulnerability in TCP of linux, patches available, how soon in Fedora?

Yetjust another reason why I love Linux?!the patching system. Its on POINT! when it comes to catching and preventing these kinds of things?.this community handles its BUSINESS!...LOL!On Aug 10, 2016 12:17 AM, stan wrote: > > Hi, > > There is a

Edge Scrolling Gone After Update...

Hello all, It's been a while since I've had to come here and inquire about the Fedora OS, but I'll keep this short and to the point. Hardware: Lenovo ThinkPad T-420 - i5 - 8GB RAM - 320GB HDD I was running F23until the Gnome Software app told me that there was an update for

Re: selinux??

On 01/24/2016 10:17 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: I am always amazed that people think shutting off a security something-or-other for some-amount-of-time can be considered safe. It takes virtually the blink of an eye to get compromised. If you need to turn off a security feature to do something, then

Re: selinux??

On 01/24/2016 10:44 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/24/2016 07:17 PM, Tim wrote: I have, unfortunately. And I see a lot of people who do on this list or forums. You can recognise them by the ones that when either dealing with a problem, or the installing a system, the first things they do are turn

Re: I broke Yum (by messing with Python libs)

On 03/22/2015 09:37 PM, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: Then there's no need of further work. Anyway, I think yum is going to be dropped. I don't remember right now the name of its substitute tough. Sorry, my memory is terrible. Cheers! I didn't know yum was breakable! LoL! I have yet to mess with

Re: pidgin video chat

On 03/09/2015 12:55 AM, Amadeus W.M. wrote: Does anyone know how to do video chat in pidgin? I can't figure it out for the life of me. I click on a contact name and the chat window opens. Then, under Conversation - Media I have 3 options: Audio call / Video call / Audio and video call. But all

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

On 02/15/2015 11:09 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 15 February 2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: I have discovered a method of creating passwords that has helped me greatly throughout the years. I learned it from this girl who was always teased in school for being weird LoL! (Thank you

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

On 02/15/2015 09:27 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 15.02.2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: ..the simple trick is to push each letter over by one! That's it! ROT1 (or ROTX, where X is any number) is a common part of most of the dictionary attacks, very easy to implement and causes near zero CPU

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

On 02/15/2015 08:47 AM, Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote: Hi, Still, I believe keepass is better. your opinion please? Krishna Prajapati On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com mailto:pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 22:07 +1030, Tim

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

On 02/15/2015 09:22 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 09:18 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I have discovered a method of creating passwords that has helped me greatly throughout the years. I learned it from this girl who was always teased in school for being weird LoL

Re: Passwords stored by Firefox

On 02/15/2015 09:43 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 15.02.2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: imagine if the word ISN'T a word that's found in the dictionary.ANY dictionary.would that qualify it as being a bit more secure? Here's the math behind it, so you can calculate for yourself

Re: despirate help needed - Samba and security = share

On 01/26/2015 04:49 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: On Friday 23 January 2015 21:17:55 Pete Travis wrote: No, please don't do this. Be honest with yourself about how frequently you are willing to upgrade this server, and compare that to Fedora's release cycle. It doesn't match up. I'm all for

Re: Time tracking app

On 01/10/2015 03:45 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 01/07/15 22:52, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am looking for a time tracking application now that I am a consultant. Emacs org-mode has capabilities for that. See http://orgmode.org/manual/Clocking-work-time.html#Clocking-work-time and

Re: Trying to install a Windows 8.1 guest under KVM

On 01/10/2015 02:20 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to install a Windows 8.1 guest using KVM. I'd like to use virtio for network and disk, but I can't seem to find virtio drivers that windows 8.1 actually recognizes. Under RHEL 7, it would be

Cannot Upgrade From F20 To F21 Using Fedup.....

Hey all, Happy Veteran's Day! I've been trying to upgrade from F20 to F21 using fedup but keep receiving the following error. I don't know if its an SELinux thing, or if there's something I need to either disable or change in order for this to work. It does go through the motions setting up

Re: Cannot Upgrade From F20 To F21 Using Fedup.....

Thanks! EGO II On 11/11/2014 05:17 AM, poma wrote: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Some newbie questions

On 09/07/2014 06:29 PM, Bat Phil wrote: After a weekend of installing and re-installing, I thought I would share what I have found: Hardware setup: AMD Semperon 300+ (old) 64MB AGP graphics card 1GB DDR400 RAM 160GB HD configured as follows. 500MB boot partition 10GB swap partition

Re: mandb errors

On 06/29/2014 05:04 PM, JD wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com mailto:eoconno...@gmail.com wrote: Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man8'. Wait...mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/isdnctrl_conf.8.gz: whatis parse

Re: mandb errors

Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man/man8'. Wait...mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/isdnctrl_conf.8.gz: whatis parse for isdnctrl_conf(8) failedmandb: can't resolve */usr/share/man/man8/btrfs-check.8.gz*: _Too many levels of symbolic links _I'm not sure, but I would think this

Re: UEFI oddity.

On 03/19/2014 07:05 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 19/03/14 17:02, Mark Haney wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/14 11:35, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have recently built a fedora 20 system using UEFI. And by and large it seems to be OK. I took care to allocate enough

Re: Fedora on a Thinkpad W540

On 02/09/2014 04:23 PM, Edward Mart wrote: On 2/7/2014 12:29 PM, CS DBA wrote: Unfortunately it's web order only... I can send it back if needed but some level of confidence before I pull the trigger would be nice... Seems this store installs fedora 20 on that exact model, they may be

Re: serious scriptlet problems with today's updates

On 01/17/2014 11:46 AM, Mark Haney wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/17/2014 10:55 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Mark Haney mha...@practichem.com wrote: My question is, WTF happened? My system is pretty clean. I never install packages by hand,

Re: Password for shutdown -

On 01/19/2014 09:07 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Fedora 20 requires a password to shutdown. This is something new, I've used Redhat and/or Fedora Linux for a long time and never had this requirement. I am the sole user of this computer and see it as an annoyance, more so when

Re: Password for shutdown -

On 01/19/2014 09:57 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 19/01/14 09:16, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 01/19/2014 09:07 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Fedora 20 requires a password to shutdown. This is something new, I've used Redhat and/or Fedora Linux for a long

Re: Fedup F17 -- F20

On 01/05/2014 10:01 AM, JUSTIN TAYLOR wrote: Sorry about leaving off the subject... I had a brain fart I guess. So F17 doesn't support fedup huh? A little odd since yum installed it for me. But no matter, I'll download an F18 ISO when I get the chance. Thank you very much!

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

On 12/30/2013 04:07 PM, David wrote: On 12/30/2013 4:00 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor wrote: On 12/30/2013 08:48 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 30 December 2013, Mihamina Rakotomandimby sent: SPAM is very subjective. I saw users subscribing to several newsletters for an event (say XMas) and

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

On 01/01/2014 02:06 PM, David wrote: On 1/1/2014 1:31 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 12/30/2013 04:07 PM, David wrote: I have it on...and I would hope its working...but its just seems to me that a LOT of spam is getting inI dunno. I think I will be looking into Spam Assassin for TB

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

On 12/29/2013 10:53 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/29/2013 07:37 PM, Tim wrote: In the past, I've emailed friends, and my first or second posting has gone into their spam bucket, without them doing anything about it. I have a friend who's email service sporadically bounces my email. Why?

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

On 12/28/2013 04:29 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: On 12/28/2013 06:06 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Hello you Ferdorans! (FedorIANS?...) I have a question,.nowwe all know that there's ways to block unwanted email from your system using Message Filters, and they work by blocking a certain

Re: Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

On 12/28/2013 02:35 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:12:24AM -0800, Richard Vickery wrote: I wonder what Google's secret is? Most likely, a heavily customized version of SpamAssassin. Or if not specifically SA, some other Baysean filter. Which, incidentally, wouldn't be amiss

Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

Hello you Ferdorans! (FedorIANS?...) I have a question,.nowwe all know that there's ways to block unwanted email from your system using Message Filters, and they work by blocking a certain domain or email address and prevent them from hitting your Inbox, I would like to know if anyone

Re: fedup and selinux

I have learned MORE about SELinux just being on this mailing list than from ANY other source out there!thanks to all for your responses to this(this will only help me in my pursuit of RHCE certification!..) EGO II On 12/24/2013 04:24 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Tue, Dec

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

On 11/26/2013 04:44 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: On 11/22/2013 01:05 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: You know what you prefer and it is available in the repo. It shouldn't matter much to you what the default is. I don't think that's entirely true. Those of us who use a lot of systems and support others

Re: OT- Getting Firefox GMail Old Compose (for a while) - Re: Why some say rpm hell

On 11/23/2013 09:13 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Fulko Hew fulko@gmail.com mailto:fulko@gmail.com wrote: Can you post some instructions ? (for getting GMail usable again after New Compose) Get UAControl from here:

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

On 11/22/2013 07:02 AM, Roger wrote: Setting aside the fact that users list is hardly the place to influence the choice of defaults and it is entirely offtopic to the purpose of this list, the idea that users drive the defaults of Fedora doesn't seem to match reality. If you do want to

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

On 11/22/2013 03:23 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: HI On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Ian Malone wrote: I agree that this isn't really the place to influence the choice of defaults, but it is entirely the place for users to form consensus. If you try to talk about this on devel

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

On 11/22/2013 08:35 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Which ones would that be?just out of curiosity. I mean... Enlightenment for example Rahul I had forgot about that one!.well for my own experience with Fedora, I jumped

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

On 11/22/2013 07:54 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/22/2013 04:29 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: This is a VERY good point which I had overlooked, the hardware requirements of GNOME are much higher that XFCE (and I believe MATE) and represent choice which is very likely to frustrate potential converts.

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

On 11/21/2013 05:10 PM, Hugh Caley wrote: I'm voting for Cinnamon, since the developer of compiz isn't interested in keeping it going. But maybe if MATE was the default for Fedora he'd change his mind? Or someone else would take over? Hugh -- *Hugh Caley Software Developer, Rocket Aldon

Re: Wish List.....

On 11/17/2013 07:37 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Richard Vickery richard.vicker...@gmail.com mailto:richard.vicker...@gmail.com wrote: It /is/ possible to buy one and install it on Fedora on it. I remember that when I had an earlier Blackberry it was

Re: setting up my 2T hard drive (WAS Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.)

On 11/15/2013 03:37 PM, Darlene Wallach wrote: linux guy, My name is Darlene Wallach. I purchased a 2T Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk disk from Costco a few years ago. I finally set it up and found your very immensely helpful directions! Thank you very much!!! Darlene Wallach On Thu, Sep 29,

Parting Shot....

http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2013/07/linux-were-all-in-this-together-right_24.html EGO II -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: please discontinue to moderate Haralds posts

in the future, but I made a similar plea earlier about this same issue, and wellI'll see you all in the future! Cheers! And keep up the great work guys! Cheers! Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https

Re: a different point of view to etiquette

On 07/17/2013 12:28 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Roger wrote: Thank you Linus and others. As I see it, this discussion has little to do with culture, nations or ideologies and a lot to do with rubbishing another person or their ideas for what ever reason. We are all equal, some have more

Re: Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released?

On 07/14/2013 12:26 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 07/13/2013 11:57 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: For me it was the aggravation. Installing was always a struggle. I was on F14 when I tried to do a fresh install of F16. Never got it to work

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

On 07/14/2013 03:54 AM, lee wrote: Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com writes: On 07/13/2013 06:51 PM, lee wrote: It's not simply about knowing which packages have been or are to be updated --- that I can see when running 'yum update'. It's about information what has actually changed

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

On 07/14/2013 08:35 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:51:05AM +0200, lee wrote: The package management tools in Debian send you emails about changes like that, even about very little changes, when packages are being replaced by more recent versions. Maybe this could be done

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

On 07/13/2013 09:44 AM, lee wrote: Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com writes: ALL!).And now for..fedup-cli --network 19...and I'll keep my fingers crossedbut what's the time frame?like an hour?2?...2+1/2? About an hour or two --- it depends on how fast you can

Re: questions on package management

On 07/13/2013 10:07 AM, lee wrote: Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com writes: On 07/12/2013 09:11 PM, lee wrote: Another question: It is possible to have version 1 and version 2 of package A installed at the same time, like version 1 from Fedora 17 and version 2 from Fedora 18

Re: Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released?

On 07/13/2013 11:57 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, lee wrote: Besides all the reasons already mentioned: It can be much more manageable to adjust one or two things when upgrading from one release to the next than it may be having to suddenly adjust five or ten after skipping

Re: [OT] Seth Vidal, creator of yum killed in bike accident

On 07/11/2013 09:16 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Isaac Cortés González w.isaac.cor...@gmail.com wrote: I support the idea, it should be done at least something like when Verne was released and Dennis Ritchie, not only the Fedora Community has lost a great

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

On 07/13/2013 06:51 PM, lee wrote: Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org writes: On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 03:34:18PM +0200, lee wrote: The package management tools in Debian send you emails about changes like that, even about very little changes, when packages are being replaced by more

Re: Schr?dinger?s Cat

On 07/13/2013 07:36 PM, Roger wrote: On 07/14/2013 05:17 AM, Edward Martinez wrote: On 7/13/2013 12:05 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: When do we get rid of grub and grub2 and design a BM4H? (Boot Manager for Humans) Once the fundamental Transhumanism technologies are fully operational.

Re: questions on package management

On 07/13/2013 07:42 PM, lee wrote: Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com writes: On 07/13/2013 10:07 AM, lee wrote: Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com writes: On 07/12/2013 09:11 PM, lee wrote: Another question: It is possible to have version 1 and version 2 of package

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

On 07/12/2013 03:19 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/11/2013 11:38 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: Only speaking for myself: I always try to upgrade first, having a complete backup, of course. If it doesn't work, I reinstall. There's nothing to loose, since I'm expecting to reinstall anyway. I've had an

Re: what has 'yum update' done?

On 07/12/2013 03:33 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/12/2013 09:10 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: See?...it's stuff like the stories above that make me hesitant to go from 18 to 19 Why? Something went wrong. Once. I spent several days, off and on, cleaning up cruft and duplicate packages from

Re: Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released?

On 07/12/2013 03:45 PM, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released? What are the main reasons? Thanks in advance, Paul As far as it was explained to me: you're not REALLY required to upgrade, if the version you're using suits your purposes.

Re: questions on package management

On 07/12/2013 09:11 PM, lee wrote: Hi, imagine you have the following: package A, depends on C, installed package B, depends on C, not installed package C, installed All the packages are version 1. After a while, you install package B, and in the meantime, package B has been updated to

Re: [OT] Seth Vidal, creator of yum killed in bike accident

On 07/11/2013 08:41 AM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 11:10 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Or if he would have been uncomfortable with this (I did not know him), perhaps name it after his passions: yum and biking (from what I read here) in some creative way yummy cycles? Even has a

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

Wow! well this is great news for me, as I was holding off upgrading for fear of something going wrong. And bear in mind I have a full backup of my system, it's just that I have scarce time to babysit a full restore...but I guess I'll give it an attempt this coming weekend over a cup of Earl Grey!

Re: Mailing List Etiquette (was Re: can't run sshd on 23456 in Fedora 19)

On 07/09/2013 01:49 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: On 7/9/2013 10:19 AM, Matthew J. Roth wrote: I agree completely. Harald's posts are among the best on this list in terms of their technical content. It's more disruptive that they're out of sequence due to moderation than that his tone can

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

On 07/09/2013 02:17 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote: I've used fedup on 4 very different machines, and it has worked faultlessly. Thanks for reporting. I was afraid of upgrading (F18-F19) and would have waited months. After your message, I did it and it worked perfectly well: 1. I downloaded the DVD

Re: Disabling ipv6

On 07/09/2013 02:27 PM, Fernando Lozano wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 10:58 +0200, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: Once in a while I see people suggesting the disabling of IPv6 to cope with some issue. My I _kindly_ ask not to do that anymore? Even though such trick might take away the

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

On 07/09/2013 02:45 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote: So then out of curiosity mind you..there's no way to get a different session and have it automatically be there when its done?...like XFCE?...or MATE?... no, it's just the first time. Then it remembers your choice. Frédéric Oh!ok...cool!

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

On 07/09/2013 02:46 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote: What I want to know is, what does fedup do if, as in my case, Gnome isn't installed? Don't know that. Sorry. Frédéric Doesn't it kind of put it there?...as a default?...or will it configure some sort of interface so that you can install it?

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

On 07/09/2013 03:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/09/2013 11:45 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: So then out of curiosity mind you..there's no way to get a different session and have it automatically be there when its done?...like XFCE?...or MATE?... no, it's just the first time. Then it remembers

Re: fedup - the good and the bad

On 07/09/2013 03:08 PM, Temlakos wrote: On 07/09/2013 03:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/09/2013 11:45 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: So then out of curiosity mind you..there's no way to get a different session and have it automatically be there when its done?...like XFCE?...or MATE?... no,

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