Re: Announce: Simple End-User Linux (SEUL) Project
Michael Stutz wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote: I think it might be a better idea to concentrate resources on the one currently available completely free Linux distribution and improve it rather than further fragment the community with yet another distribution. Could the project goals of SEUL be met by Debian somehow? It already is a stable, robust distribution, and is not going to go away. It also has gotten easier to install and maintain with recent releases. What if improvements were made to Debian's install and upgrade facilities to make it even easier, and/or more documentation was created in the form of useful tutorials for common procedures -- would this meet SEUL's goals? If so, it would save a lot of work both for the SEUL team (who would be creating a new distribution from scratch, which realistically would probably never be as robust as Debian), and for the Debian project (who would gain the assistance of the SEUL folks in making Debian easier to install and maintain). I definitely have to agree with these statements. I think the last thing a new Linux user needs, is another Linux distribution to choose from. I know I was a bit dissappointed with the fragmentation when I started with it (about 3 months ago). Please take Debian and improve the installation utilities (I'm a big fan of SGI's 'swmgr'. Anyone want to write a clone for dpkg?). Maybe move the documentation into a web-based format (HTML) to make the current information easier to navigate. Maybe web-based admin tools? -- __ Matthew Majka - Software Engineer Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Several Q's
On 11 Dec 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: [stuff removed] Did you try reading through the 3-button-mouse howto in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini? I'd like to thank everyone who answered my request for information. The fix was easy; hold down button 1 during boot and set the protocol to MouseSystems... and the documentation was on my system all along. The more I use Linux, the more I am amazed at the quality... Maybe x86 HW isn't that bad after all... Thankx again. __ Matthew Majka -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Several Q's
Larry Gariepy wrote: Matthew, The problem with your mouse might not be your mouse, but the way that it is configured. I have had to jump through all of the mouse hoops a lot recently to get mine to work. A possible solution is that there might be a switch on the bottom of the mouse that you can flip, then reboot the machine, and see if it works. If not, you will have to mess with XF86Config. If you don't have a switch on the bottom, or if that doesn't fix the problem, then email this list again, and we'll go from there. No switches on the mouse and the XF86Config file is bare. I believe I used XF86Setup and it's various mouse options to try to get the middle button to work with no luck. -- __ Matthew Majka - Software Engineer Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Several Q's
Hi all, I've got Debian 1.3.1 installed on a PC at home and am having two minor problems. This first is that when I run 'xconsole', it returns cannot open /dev/console. The second is that 'w', 'who', and 'finger' never displays any users. Does anyone have any solutions to these problems. If you need more specific info, please let me know. Also, can anyone recommend a decent three-button mouse (serial or ps/2). The middle button on my current mouse doesn't work. -- __ Matthew Majka -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade
Can someone give me a pionter to some info on upgrading a system to libc6? I'd like to start using XFree86-3.3.1 for some of it's bug fixes and the new debian packages are libc6 dependent. Matt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem configuration
I just got PPP working a couple days ago at home, so this is still fresh in my mind. For some reason, the /dev/cu devices didn't exist (using minicom clued me into this), so I had to do `cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV serial-cu` to get started. After I got the /dev/cu devices, things went very smooth. -- __ Matthew Majka - Software Engineer Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: amd/automount [Was: nis]
Since we're talking about automounters. I've heard that there is a version of AutoFS for Linux under development. I'm wondering if this will take the standard Sun/SGI maps and support indirect mounts? Anyone have details on AutoFS and when it will be available? -- __ Matthew Majka - Software Engineer Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
NFS/NIS support
Hi all, I very new to Debian (maybe 24 hours) although I have quite a bit of experience with SGI's and Sun's. I have a few questions I was hoping someone could answer for me. 1) I've seen that NFS is supported on Debian, but I haven't seen any mention of an automounter. Is there one? 2) If so, does it support NIS maps? 3) The reason we set this machine up is to become familiar with what Linux can give us. Management wants to buy cheap hardware (PeeCee), but we are unwilling to use the cheap OS that they come with (Windoze). I'm interested in window manager suggestions. The SGI's use a modified mwm from OSF, so I know that's not a freebie. Is there one that will give user's the look and feel of a commercial workstation? Thanx! -- __ Matthew Majka - Software Engineer Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NFS/NIS support
Scott Ellis wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Matthew Majka wrote: I very new to Debian (maybe 24 hours) although I have quite a bit of experience with SGI's and Sun's. I have a few questions I was hoping someone could answer for me. We'll sure try. Always glad to have a new convert :) I wouldn't call myself a convert (not from commercial Unix'es anyway). Just a personal quest to eliminate Windoze wherever I can... ;-) -- __ Matthew Majka - Software Engineer Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
