I still consider myself a "newbie" "greenhorn"
type user of Mandrake Linux. So I'm attempting
to understand the "lay of the land" so to speak.
I know Redhat embraces Gnome for the Qt open
source issues, I've noticed a process sunrpc running
in my newly installed Mdk 7.0 system. I know it is required
by the NFS and NIS systems, but is that proprietory?? Is
it still owned by Sun?? Is there an open source or GNU
version?? I still have a habit of getting sidetracked with so
much to learn all at once. I started looking for documentation
on the gtoast program and got off in the GNOME land and
immersed in CORBA with ORB's and such. And to top it all off
I visited the site with my newly aquired Mozilla M15 browser which
I'm still learning how to use. In order to download M15 (7MB) I had
to dwnload the Downloader for X (333K) so I could resume my download
of M15 beyond the customery 76% my ISP allows me to stay connected! :-)
7MB at 24K does take a while! I laughed at the thought of downloading the
source code for M15 (22MB). So I've had an interesting few days getting
aquainted with Mdk Linux. I can erase CDRW's in gtoast (leaving no acceptable
tracks to record to), and record CDR's and CDRW's in Xcdroast (single session)
never got the multisessions to work in gtoast (no enough handholding type docs)
just type and scratch head so far!
Thanks for reading all this, it has been an education!
vern
