--- On Mon, 6/13/11, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us wrote:
On 06/13/2011 12:25 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
After all, most of the hardware is at least 6 years
old. So, by today's standards, for a desktop, it's
OLD, and I need it to maintain usability for another 2 to 3
years.
The mobo and CPU
--- On Mon, 6/13/11, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:02 PM,
Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Not all that old. I'm running kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 on
the Debian 6 VM, which
I haven't checked lately to see if there's an update.
My current kernel for F12
--- On Sun, 6/12/11, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/13/11, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com
wrote:
[...]
Considered XFCE and LXDE instead, but
decided the best option was to abandon the Desktop GUI
environment
all-together in favor of a well-featured window
manager
--- On Sun, 6/12/11, Digimer li...@alteeve.com wrote:
On 06/12/2011 06:08 PM, Patrick
Bartek wrote:
It's been a nice ride these past 7 years with Fedora
as my primary OS, but it's time to move on. My current
[snip]
Every distro exists to fit a niche. That Fedora is not the
one
--- On Sun, 6/12/11, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote:
Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com
wrote:
It's been a nice ride these past 7 years with Fedora
as my primary OS, but it's time to move on.
This reminds me of OS/2 users on oS/2 maling list who
often decided
that not only
--- On Sun, 6/12/11, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/12/2011 03:08 PM, Patrick
Bartek wrote:
It's been a nice ride these past 7 years with Fedora
as my primary OS, but it's time to move on. My current
[snip]
As was stated in a recent response on this list, Fedora is
always
It's been a nice ride these past 7 years with Fedora as my primary OS, but it's
time to move on. My current and future needs are for a support life measured
in years, not months. And CentOS and Scientific Linux didn't fulfill my other
requirements. Neither did the Rolling Release distros:
--- On Wed, 6/8/11, Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net wrote:
I've been running Omega Linux 14 (respin
of F 14) on an EeePC
701, with an 8GB camera card in the slot. I'm very pleased
with the OS
(Rahul, I owe you big time!); but the hardware just doesn't
fit my extra
large trifocal
--- On Thu, 5/26/11, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote:
I have been using an HP2400 duo core
for years (is there a way to find
the manufacturing date without going into bios?). But
this morning it
jsut about gave me a heart attack when it would not come
out of
standby.
--- On Wed, 4/13/11, Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus arad...@gmail.com wrote:
Yesterday I installed Fedora14 on an old Dell PC (an Optiplex G260)
enhanced with 2 GB in RAM. All is working OK, but I have few doubts yet.
Before continue with this I want to specify two things:
First, I have a
--- On Tue, 3/22/11, Luc MAIGNAN luc.maig...@winxpert.com wrote:
I use VirtualBox on a RHEL5 with 24 cores (6 x4-cores
processors).
But it seems like only one or two processors are used. How
can I
configure VirtualBox and/or my virtual machine to allow it
to use all
processors ?
Does
--- On Mon, 3/14/11, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/14/2011 06:22 AM, Piscium
wrote:
I am currently using a full desktop environment
(Gnome) but am
considering using instead a window manager. There are
dozens of them
around, so I have been exploring and comparing.
I
--- On Wed, 3/9/11, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote:
madunix at gmail.com
madunix at gmail.com writes:
I will try to add more RAM to it. I have done the yum
check ... all went OK
... but it didn't change the behaviour. Thanks for
your help.
...
OK.
Now you can look at your
--- On Mon, 3/7/11, madu...@gmail.com madu...@gmail.com wrote:
Recently upgraded from Fedora 9 to Fedora 12 (upgrade
procedure not
fresh install) and Xorg appears to behave strange, cpu
jumps to high
utilization and Xorg getting 50% or more and swap
keep increasing.
Any suggestions.
Yes.
--- On Tue, 3/8/11, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder if there's any Fedora (1.0?
:) that would run on a 486sx-33
system with 8MB of RAM.
Why does it have to specifically be Fedora?
I don't need a GUI. My intent is to connect an ancient SCSI
based
scanner through a PCMCIA
--- On Sun, 2/27/11, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/27/11, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com
wrote:
TO: OP
If you think it's specifically a Fedora problem (I
don't), I would install
Me neither. It's just that I still think it's possible that
it's not a
HW problem
--- On Sat, 2/26/11, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/26/11, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to
wrote:
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 20:02:26 +0100,
Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com
wrote:
The crashes seem to happen more frequently when
I'm doing something
interactively (even if it's
--- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote:
A Sony Vaio will not let me boot on
cdrom with a Crashed Windows OS,
trying to install Fedora only on laptop. Even if I
have BIOS set to
boot off Cdrom.
I even hooked a external cdrom to usb and enabled in Bios
to be first
boot
--- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jim binary...@comcast.net wrote:
On 02/21/2011 02:33 PM, Patrick
Bartek wrote:
--- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jimbinary...@comcast.net
wrote:
A Sony Vaio will not let me boot on
cdrom with a Crashed Windows OS,
trying to install Fedora only on laptop.
Even if I
have
--- On Thu, 2/3/11, Zoltan Hoppar hopp...@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to suggest one of my favourite sound
recorders, it's name
is Pulsecaster. It's usable for podcasting, but records
anything that
you say into your mic. No need to terminal, it has nice
gui, and uses
pulseaudio directly.
--- On Thu, 2/3/11, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 19:17 -0800,
Patrick Bartek wrote:
Looking for a simple audio recorder with built-in
playback for foreign
language practice. Commandline type okay.
Will be using a Skype-type
headset with integrated
Looking for a simple audio recorder with built-in playback for foreign language
practice. Commandline type okay. Will be using a Skype-type headset with
integrated microphone--two separate plugs. Have found many audio recording
studio programs, but don't need all that sophistication. Tried
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, Parshwa Murdia b330...@gmail.com wrote:
A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user
friendly
then GNOME desktop?
No, it isn't, but since you can totally customize either, the question is
really irrelevant.
B
--
users mailing list
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote:
On 01/18/2011 02:52 PM, Temlakos wrote:
snip
I suspect that the answer depends solely on whether
you come to Linux
from Mac or Windows.
so what would you suspect for those of us who moved from
unix to
slackware and changed from
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, Boggiano boggi...@gmail.com wrote:
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote:
On 01/18/2011 02:52 PM, Temlakos wrote:
snip
I suspect that the answer depends solely on whether
you come to Linux
from Mac or Windows.
What about those of us who came from
--- On Wed, 1/5/11, Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote:
This computer has
developed problems and I have elected to replace
it with another used computer which FedEx
should deliver in a few
days. I know I can transfer file from one to
the other but is there
any hope I
--- On Tue, 12/21/10, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote:
The Fedora-14-Live-multi.iso image is
a DVD image that uses GRUB rather
than isolinux to boot to a menu of Live CD ISO images. At
5.3 GB, it
will not fit on an ordinary single layer DVD and requires a
dual-layer
DVD
--- On Wed, 12/15/10, Roubhya Shankar Aluni roub...@gmail.com wrote:
I have downloaded a fedora 10 dvd iso of size approx 1.58GB and after
burning it is bootable! But surprisingly it also has no EFI folder! How it
boots at all ? And if it is bootable then other DVD ISOs having no EFI
--- On Mon, 12/13/10, Roubhya Shankar Aluni roub...@gmail.com wrote:
I am new here! Hello everybody! Can any one say how to boot from Fedora 10
DVD ? Because it has no EFI folder in dvd. I have downloaded fedora 10 i386
dvd iso (32bit) several times from different locations but no iso has
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Konstantin Svist fry@gmail.com wrote:
Bartek wrote:
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Patrick Bartekbartek...@yahoo.com
wrote:
$ps -ef shows, in part:
[snip]
B
Wow! It finally showed up. 8 hours after
the initial post. At least, on my Yahoo mail account.
$ps -ef shows, in part:
root 178 2 0 09:06 ?00:00:00 [nouveau/0]
root 179 2 0 09:06 ?00:00:00 [nouveau/1]
Is this normal? I don't recall ever having two.
I recently replaced my LG Flatron L1960TR-BF (4:3 ratio) with an Asus VN242
(16:9). Could this
(NOTE: This is the second attempt to post this. First try got error from
Fedora List Mail Daemon.)
$ps -ef shows, in part:
root 178 2 0 09:06 ?00:00:00 [nouveau/0]
root 179 2 0 09:06 ?00:00:00 [nouveau/1]
Is this normal? I don't recall ever having
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Konstantin Svist fry@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/05/2010 12:11 PM, Patrick
Bartek wrote:
(NOTE: This is the second attempt to post this.
First try got error from Fedora List Mail Daemon.)
Was it Two Instances of Nouveau Running ~3hrs ago?
Because I don't see
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote:
Patrick Bartek bartek047
at yahoo.com writes:
...
Take a look at your monitor outputs - make sure you have
only one connected,
the others disconnected (if that is your desired config).
Only have the DVI-DVI cable connected. In fact
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Michael Miles mmami...@gmail.com wrote:
Patrick Bartekbartek047at
yahoo.com writes:
...
Take a look at your monitor outputs - make sure you
have only one connected,
the others disconnected (if that is your desired
config).
$ xrxndr
xorg.conf
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Konstantin Svist fry@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/05/2010 02:56 PM, Patrick
Bartek wrote:
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Konstantin Svistfry@gmail.com
wrote:
$ps -ef shows, in part:
root
178
2 0
09:06 ? 00:00:00
[nouveau/0]
root
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote:
$ps -ef shows, in part:
root
178 2 0
09:06 ? 00:00:00 [nouveau/0]
root
179 2 0
09:06 ? 00:00:00 [nouveau/1]
Is this normal? I don't recall ever having two.
I recently replaced
Just a few days ago, I switched from my old, reliable LG Flatron L1960TR-BF
(4:3, 1280x1024) monitor to an Asus VH242 (16:9). Both are LCD types with
flourescent tube, not LED, backlight. With everything shutdown, I hooked up
the Asus using the LG's DVI-DVI cable. The boot went fine. New
--- On Thu, 11/25/10, James McKenzie jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net wrote:
On 11/25/10 7:00 PM, Patrick Bartek
wrote:
--- On Thu, 11/25/10, Bill Davidsendavid...@tmr.com
wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
[snip]
Another reason, I'm looking for Long Time
Support in
my next OS.
I stayed
--- On Wed, 11/24/10, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote:
[snip]
I ask this because I just installed an Amahi
system using a local repo
built from the install CDs and many of the
dependencies for Amahi are
NOT met during the install. They, for the
most part, get picked up
--- On Thu, 11/25/10, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
--- On Sun, 11/14/10, Bill Davidsendavid...@tmr.com
wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
[snip]
That's okay as long as the OS is current
when it is
installed and will be supported for those 5 years
--- On Thu, 11/25/10, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
[snip]
Another reason, I'm looking for Long Time Support in
my next OS.
I stayed on FC4 for similar reasons, until I could go to
better hardware and
FC13, and I still run XP in a VM for one application
--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote:
Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com
wrote:
[snip]
Have only heard of BTRFS recently and know little
about it, but that will change over the next few days.
I opted for ext2 because of the years it had been
around
--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote:
On 11/19/2010 01:45 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
All my research recommended NOT using a journaling
filesystem like ext3 on SSDs. It wears them out
faster. Although, I did read one article where the
writer actually
--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote:
Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com
wrote:
[snip]
All my research recommended NOT using a journaling
filesystem like ext3 on SSDs. It wears them out faster.
Although, I did read one article where the writer actually
--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Zoltan Hoppar hopp...@gmail.com wrote:
I have an strange question about virtual desktops. Usually, every user
could set up multiple virtual desktops - where you could switch around -
basically with an applet. I mosly in my times I like to do multiple things
together -
--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote:
On 11/11/2010 01:35 PM, Beartooth
wrote:
I have F14 installed and running on
an EeePC 701 -- the earliest
smallest slowest EeePC afaik.
I also have an EeePC 701 with 512Mb memory and a 4Gb SSD
drive.
--- On Mon, 11/15/10, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote:
I have a Asus EE 700 with 512 Mb
memory. FC12 meminfo reports ~490Mb
usable memory as I suspect Video is stealing some memory.
Anyway, FC14 install reports that there is NOT enough
memory for a
graphical install. To
--- On Sun, 11/14/10, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
Since FC6 (I've been using Fedora since Core 3), I've
only upgraded with every third release--6-9-12. I
think it wasteful of time and energy to upgrade any
faster. It takes almost the 6 month release cycle
--- On Sun, 11/14/10, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
[snip]
That's okay as long as the OS is current when it is
installed and will be supported for those 5 years or
so. (I'm not a cutting edge type of person. It
matters little to me whether something
--- On Sun, 11/14/10, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote:
On Saturday, November 13, 2010
06:26:09 pm Patrick Bartek wrote:
I've never demeaned Fedora. There are things I
don't like to be sure, but that can be said of all
things. I've been using it since FC3 after trying a
dozen or so other
--- On Fri, 11/12/10, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote:
On 11/12/2010 08:31 AM, Patrick
Bartek wrote:
That's okay as long as the OS is current when it is
installed and
will be supported for those 5 years or so.
I understand that, but you will never find that to be the
case
--- On Fri, 11/12/10, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote:
Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com
wrote:
I never said that nor was it my intention to imply
that. All I said was in the 10
years of using Linux none of my systems were ever
hacked or infected. I never
said I didn't check my
--- On Sat, 11/13/10, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote:
Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com
wrote:
...snip...
Fedora's release cycles when it was Fedora Core used
to be longer and
not on a strict schedule as it is now. A new
version was released
when it was ready. Fedora now has
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote:
On 11/09/2010 07:35 PM, Patrick
Bartek wrote:
I've gotten to the point where I'm tiring of Fedora's
fast release
cycle. I need a longer life OS. I build my
personal systems to last
about 5 to 7 years with periodic hardware
--- On Thu, 11/11/10, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 10:36 -0800,
Patrick Bartek wrote:
Lack of the usual indicators, that is, no odd
application behavior,
no unusual slow-downs, no excessive CPU usage, no
excessive or
abnormal net (or hard drive
-- On Thu, 11/11/10, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/11/10, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com
wrote:
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com
wrote:
[snip]
I hope that you're not deluding yourself...
Why would you think I am?
I'm no expert on intrusion
--- On Thu, 11/11/10, James Mckenzie jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net wrote:
Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 10:36 -0800, Patrick Bartek
wrote:
Lack of the usual indicators, that is, no odd
application behavior,
no unusual slow-downs, no excessive CPU usage
--- On Thu, 11/11/10, James Mckenzie jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net wrote:
Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com
wrote:
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com
wrote:
[massive snip]
I've spent enough time fixing friends' infected
Windows machines that I've
gotten a feel
--- On Thu, 11/11/10, Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net wrote:
I have F14 installed and running on an
EeePC 701 -- the earliest
smallest slowest EeePC afaik.
It boots and it runs. But it's not
usable yet; for one thing,
when I set it to boot, I then have to check every
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/10/10, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com
wrote:
I'm not running a server with the need for up-to-date
security, but a
personal desktop that has more that sufficient
security. After 10 years of
using various versions
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
How do you know you haven't been infected or
hacked?
(I don't doubt that you do, just curious about
how.)
Lack of the usual indicators, that is, no odd
application behavior, no
unusual slow-downs, no excessive CPU
--- On Tue, 11/9/10, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote:
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:23:30 -0600
Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com
wrote:
Per:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-June/002830.html
Fedora 12 will continue to receive updates until
approximately one
--- On Tue, 11/9/10, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote:
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 19:35:33 -0800
(PST)
Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com
wrote:
Just because it's EOL doesn't mean it stops working on
that date,
too. ;-)
Sure.
The way people talk about EOL, you'd think that it did. Stop
-- On Tue, 11/9/10, Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
[snip]
Since FC6 (I've been using Fedora since Core 3), I've
only upgraded with every third release--6-9-12. I
think it wasteful of time and energy to upgrade any
faster. It takes almost the 6 month
--- On Sun, 11/7/10, Patrick Dupre pd...@york.ac.uk wrote:
Thank, you are probably right.
After 5 attempts to udgrade my fedora 11 system to 12 or
13. I just
gave up. In my opinion, there is a problem with the rpm
db.
I checked the hardware.
The system became unstable after an access to
--- On Wed, 10/6/10, Maxime Alarie mala...@processia.com wrote:
I have never used dd to clone a hard disk.
I use rsync for a lot of my backups, and I was wondering
what would be the best tool to clone a disk. I don’t want 3rd
party software also. I want built in command line tools.
--- On Thu, 9/30/10, adrian kok adriankok2...@yahoo.com.hk wrote:
Can I know which fedora is stable?
If you mean like how Debian classifies its releases? Then I don't think Fedora
ever reaches Stable. It is really a cutting edge test bed for new features
and code for RHEL and not a general
--- On Tue, 9/28/10, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 07:18 -0700,
Patrick Bartek wrote:
The manufacturer of my printer (Epson) recommended
that I use the
printer at least twice a week to keep the jets
clear. It didn't help.
Sure it did. You use more ink
--- On Wed, 9/29/10, Silent-Hunter cheery...@hotmail.com wrote:
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
--- On Tue, 9/28/10, Silent-Huntercheery...@hotmail.com
wrote:
[snip]
Now this is very odd. I did the self test, and now
it
works. From the
test AND from Linux
--- On Tue, 9/28/10, Silent-Hunter cheery...@hotmail.com wrote:
[snip]
Now this is very odd. I did the self test, and now it
works. From the
test AND from Linux.
Probably, the yellow ink jet was just clogged, a common problem if you don't
use your printer regularly, particularly if
--- On Sun, 9/26/10, Silent-Hunter cheery...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi! My Canon BJC-70 will not print yellow or any
colour that requires
yellow. It prints other colours, but none that contain
yellow. I have
tried everything, including compiling the latest
GhostScript. Please help?
Did
--- On Wed, 9/22/10, Walter Cazzola cazz...@dico.unimi.it wrote:
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Greg Woods
wrote:
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 18:01 +0200, Walter Cazzola
wrote:
Unfortunately the last two kernel upgrades
(2.6.34.6-54 and 2.6.34.7-56)
didn't correspond to an upgrade of the kernel
On Tue, 9/21/10, earlsco...@comcast.net earlsco...@comcast.net wrote:
I am a new user to Fedora.
I ran the latest updates and pulled 404 updates. One of the updates
stated it needs more room on the root file system in order to download
it.
The root file system is maxed otu at 3.3gb in
--- On Tue, 9/14/10, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote:
Tim wrote:
And for other things that you might have to deal with,
such as being
handed a Word document. They're designed to copy
the metrics of the
Microsoft fonts (size and shape), so that documents
will appear as
--- On Thu, 9/9/10, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/09/2010 05:29 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
[snip]
IIRC, CentOS 5, the latest version, as well as
Scientific Linux, too, is based off FC6. That's not
all that far removed from 4, is it? Although, as I
recall, FC6 worked so well, for me
--- On Thu, 9/9/10, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:32 PM, JD
jd1...@gmail.com
wrote:
Why not upgrade the whole installation to F13, or
better yet, on Nov 2nd,
of this year F14 will be released! Upgrade to F14 and
then do yum update
to get the latest
--- On Mon, 8/23/10, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 10:13 -0700,
Patrick Bartek wrote:
FWIW, usually for a typical install from CDs, you
only need the
first two (or three), not the whole set.
I used to find that was promised (as in, if you picked
--- On Mon, 8/23/10, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
I have a Thinkpad T23 with 512MB
RAM,
which I seldom use.
(It is kept in a holiday location.)
It is currently running Fedora-10,
which probably shows when it was last used.
I tried installing
--- On Sat, 8/21/10, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote:
I have a Thinkpad T23 with 512MB
RAM,
which I seldom use.
(It is kept in a holiday location.)
It is currently running Fedora-10,
which probably shows when it was last used.
I tried installing Fedora-13 from the KDE Live CD,
--- On Mon, 8/16/10, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote:
Matthew Ramos matt.nole
at yahoo.com writes:
Hi everyone -I am new to Linux and I am trying to
compare Fedora’s desktop
version Linux to a few other distributors. Could
anyone please tell me:
the hardware requirements
--- On Tue, 7/27/10, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
[snip]
I never could see any advantage to LVMs (over real
partitions) other than being able to resize them while they
are mounted.
They do make it easy to move stuff to new hardware, that
can
--- On Thu, 7/22/10, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks much for the help! That
was the clue I needed to get firefox going.
I needed gecko-mediaplayer.
I still haven't figured out google-chrome-unstable though.
google-chrome-unstable-6.0.472.0-53024.x86_64
It seems to
--- On Thu, 7/22/10, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to view this:
http://blip.tv/file/3900047/
I think I have all relevant software installed, but it
doesn't work. Tried
both chrome-unstable and firefox.
Work for you?
Yes. Works fine here. Downloads and plays
--- On Mon, 7/19/10, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Peter Diercks di-lis...@jls-hh.de
wrote:
I am running a server under F11. It is a remote
machine
which I have no
physical access to. It has a network connection. I
wanted
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Peter Diercks di-lis...@jls-hh.de wrote:
I am running a server under F11. It is a remote machine
which I have no
physical access to. It has a network connection. I wanted
to upgrade to
F12 using preupgrade again, but this time I am afraid I'll
run into
problems due to
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Antonio M antonio.montagn...@gmail.com wrote:
2010/7/13 Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au:
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 09:12 +0200, Antonio M wrote:
I am using a network printer (NRG-MP-C3300) and I
am noting that I can
choose format of paper (A3-A4) when printing from
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Michael Miles mmami...@gmail.com wrote:
Fedora 12 x86_64
I did look this time and it seems the gods that have
control did not
give a kmod for the new Nvidia driver 195.36.31 for the new
kernel
2.6.32.16-141.
It has a kmod there for the old kernel 2.6.32.14-127
--- On Sun, 7/11/10, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote:
I've been running Fedora on my old Thinkpad A22p (P-III/M w/512MB)
since FC4 or before, upgrading from one version to the next using the
same partition sizes. For F13 I increased the size of /boot, but kept
swap at 1GB:
--- On Wed, 6/30/10, ranjan sundar nja...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried to download flashplayer for linux from adobe website and
downloaded this zip file. i extracted it and found that it contained
only 1 file with .so extension (shared object).
[snip]
My guess--and it's only a guess--is that
--- On Wed, 6/30/10, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 15:39 -0700,
Patrick Bartek wrote:
Zip is used for some Linux stuff, besides which
the OP says
he extracted
a .so file, so it is for Linux.
As far as I've found Adobe doesn't distribute
--- On Thu, 6/24/10, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a
conventional hard drive to an SSD.
Both drives are 160 GB in size.
I want to resize the /boot and swap partitions from 200 MB
and 2 GB to
500 MB and 8 GB respectively. The first
resize
--- On Tue, 6/22/10, Mats u...@comhem.se wrote:
I want to have (at least) two linux-system (no windows) on
the same hd.
If I make two partitions for the first (/ and swap) and
then the same
with the other one. Is that ok? All detailed explanation
I've seen is
about installing windows and
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 14:47 -0700,
Patrick Bartek wrote:
An inferior format, VHS, image qualitywise, yes
No. Have you actually compared them, or just
repeating gossip? I have.
They were both as bad as each other, in general
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Mats u...@comhem.se wrote:
I have tried to find information about fedoras evolution
but haven't
find an answer to the following question:
How long will fedora 12 be supported with security
updates?
Approximately 13 months from initial release. This goes for all Fedora
--- On Mon, 6/14/10, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote:
On 06/15/2010 01:28 PM, Patrick
Bartek wrote:
There was a similar problem 35 years ago with consumer
video recording and/or playback formats. Ultimately,
the consumer chose which format it preferred. They
will, again
--- On Tue, 6/15/10, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:42:16 -0600
Greg Woods wrote:
I believe it is only a matter of (not much) time
before Linux is
targeted.
Linux is already targeted plenty at the server level. Leave
a
linux box hooked to the
--- On Tue, 6/15/10, Dale J. Chatham d...@chatham.org wrote:
On 06/15/2010 12:28 AM, Patrick
Bartek wrote:
[snip]
There was a similar problem 35 years ago with consumer
video recording and/or playback formats. Ultimately,
the consumer chose which format it preferred. They
will, again
--- On Mon, 6/14/10, Steve Underwood ste...@coppice.org wrote:
On 06/14/2010 12:54 PM, Patrick
Bartek wrote:
--- On Sun, 6/13/10, Bill Davidsendavid...@tmr.com
wrote:
That isn't going to make people very
happy.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/06/11/1338207/Adobe
--- On Mon, 6/14/10, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 22:35 -0400,
Bill Davidsen wrote:
That isn't going to make people very happy.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/06/11/1338207/Adobe-Temporarily-Kills-64-Bit-Flash-For-Linux
Or are you reading that the
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