A day at home with both automobiles in the shop, so I'm making a little
progress with the vectorlinux distro.
vectorlinux has a few quirks.
Modules are loaded via /sbin/modprobe xxxx in a file /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.
After I put in the appropriate modules (did an lsmod on my Gentoo
system), now I have NIC - sound - lp - and ide-scsi loaded and working.
vi on vectorlinux is linked to a GNU program called nano which is a
full-screen editor - somewhat slow but usable. Fortunately they do have
nedit which is one of my favorites.
I'm still waiting for package install info. I could download tarballs and
do compiles for what I need, but I'd like to "do it their way" first.
Actually they support rpm, deb, slackware, and other methods!
I'' wait on Opera because that requires qt (unless you download the static
version), so I'll just put up with Nutscrape for now.
The userlist for posting questions for vectorlinux is a realy PITA but it
works. You must use www.eazyboard.com. Whenever you log in you get all
the obnoxious ads you ever wanted (not) to see. Of course you can choose
to pay for the service with no ads.
I like the "small is beautiful" concept, so I'm being choosy what I put on
here.
As soon as I get packaging instructions, my next project is to put up
reiserfstools and genetically engineer (ie clone) the system to reiserfs.
More later
--
Collins Richey
Denver Area
Vectorlinux 2.0 - Kernel 2.4.5 - XFree86-4.1
_______________________________________________
http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc
->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
