Re: Using culmus fonts within Inkscape
I can reproduce this bug on my system too. Cheers, Chen. ביום ראשון 21 ינואר 2007, 12:27, נכתב על ידי Yuval Hager: > Hi, > > I am having this strange problem with Inkscape, couldn't find anything on > the net about it. > > Using culmus fonts, certain fonts just "insist" on staying bold style. When > I choose "medium" style and click "apply" in the font selection dialog - > they just become "bold". > > This goes for ComixNo2 CLM and David CLM (maybe some more, I didn't check > them all). Checking other apps, like OpenOffice, Gimp, I do get the thinner > version of the font, but not within Inkscape. > > Has anyone seen anything similar? > > Thanks, > > --yuval To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Experience with Scmbug?
Amos Shapira wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone here had/heard experience with Scmbug? > (http://www.mkgnu.net/?q=taxonomy/term/1) My company uses this tool with Subversion and Bugzilla. We're actually pretty satisfied with it. It's easy to setup on Debian, easy to maintain, and simply works with the Bugzilla and Subversion that come with Debian. > > It appears to be a "generic" interface to integrate issue tracking > systems ( i.e. the Bugzilla's of the world) with version control > systems (the CVS's, SVN's of the world). > > I plan to join an environment which already uses Bugzilla and I plan > to offer integration of Subversion into this, so Trac is apparently > not an option (is Trac better than Scmbug?). > > Thanks, > > --Amos > Lior = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Experience with Scmbug?
Hi, Does anyone here had/heard experience with Scmbug? (http://www.mkgnu.net/?q=taxonomy/term/1) It appears to be a "generic" interface to integrate issue tracking systems ( i.e. the Bugzilla's of the world) with version control systems (the CVS's, SVN's of the world). I plan to join an environment which already uses Bugzilla and I plan to offer integration of Subversion into this, so Trac is apparently not an option (is Trac better than Scmbug?). Thanks, --Amos
Booting linux from windows over net (was: Re: Simulating PXE boot?)
I've just realized that maybe the original subject was wrong and therefore pointed repliers to the wrong direction. What I was after is to actually be able to run something under Win98 which will start the boot sequence of Linux over the network and end up with NFS-root. So far it looks like LTSP and maybe loadlin can help me achieve that. On 24/01/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 23/01/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have used it to boot full knoppix on PIII 450MHz with only 64MB ram > > Was it a laptop? Laptops have tendency to contain "special" and "nouvelle" > hardware, the kind that requires "special vendor CD with addition hardware > drivers" when re-installing windows and kept Linux away from laptops back in > the bad old days. Are you afraid to try ? ;-) It was not a laptop, it was a bare board in Yes, certainly. I don't have the means and the time to fix it if it breaks. a cardboard shoe box in the beginning. And yes, you are right, laptops had/have 'interesting' hardware variations. But there is only one way to find out if *your* laptop is one of them. Which you have to do about now because you need to know the exact netcard type and version (PCI ID is enough but not always) when you use rom-o-matic. Ha :) This laptop is so old that it doesn't have an integrated network card - the net card is a PCMCIA 10/100 addition I bought her around 2003. etherboot deals with the generation of boot ROMs, some of which are altered such that they can be brought up from floppy for testing. So maybe I didn't understand what it is. I'll just try to stick to whatever LTSP does because it sounds like just what I need. Again - I prefer to let my wife boot into Win98 and then decide whether she > wants to switch to Linux, I'm afraid picking from a boot menu or having to > reboot to do that will keep her away from trying this. Use stronger persuasion. Or wait for the next Win98 crash when there will be no other option until you find the time to ... reinstall. Actually, surprisingly I can't remember when was the last time we had to re-install her Windows - I converted her to Firefox and Thunderbird (before she moved to gmail) and have anti-virus and anti-spyware running all the time. It does start to show some weird behaviour in the last couple of weeks which might make her a bit more receptive for a change. Something or other. One way to turn users off wrt. Linux is to force it upon them. Same for anything else. Like Vista for example. I hope. As you say - *forcing* things on her only makes her push back, that's why the option to "just run" linux without scaring her by erasing her Windows looks so attractive at this stage. AS I SAID BEFORE it might but it involves a reboot, strictly speaking. Once inside a system there is no way to change to another system without Bzzt. Wrong answer - Win98 is actually DOS, which uses "real mode"[1], so things like loadlin (which was probably what I was looking for when asking my first question) are possible. you want, the user will THINK it's a reboot anyway. And he will be right about it. To mitigate the pain you can make a nice splash screen with Not quite, IMHO. It isn't exact science but I want to assure my wife that when she powers on her laptop she'll get the same familiar Windows boot sequence without a change. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_mode Cheers, --Amos
Re: Simulating PXE boot?
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 08:25:46PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 23/01/07, Yedidyah Bar-David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >2007/1/23, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> Is it possible to achieve the same effect of PXE boot (i.e. pull > >> everything over the net, at most use a file on the local FAT32 disk for > >> swap) using some DOS/Win98 software? > > > > > >For a tool allowing you to do it yourself, look at etherboot. For a > >framework doing most of this for you, look at ltsp.org. > > > > Thanks for the pointer. Forgot about it. > > My motivation - we have an ancient Toshiba Sattelite 4030CDT that can boot > >> Ubuntu live from its CD-ROM but it's slow, my wife won't let me install > >> Linux over her Win98, and on top of this the CD-ROM is slow and noisy. > >There > >> is no space on the disk to install Linux besides Windows (4 or 6 Gb HD). > >> > >> So I though it would be great if I could just run something a-la > >> "loadlin" from inside a Win98 command-window that will pull down the > >kernel > > > > > >loadlin actually might be "good enough" and if you know it well might be > >less work than PXE or etherboot. > > > > I haven't touched it since the very early days of Linux. I think I'd prefer > to be able to control the booted version from the server, though. > > Copy your favourite kernel+initrd to the laptop and set up e.g. a > config.sys/autoexec.bat > >menu. For that matter, you can take the kernel+initrd from ltsp.org above. > > > > Thanks. Looks useful. > > and initramfs from my Debian Etch desktop and bootstrap from that, using NFS > >> root mount from the Debian disk. Once I have this I suppose it should be > >> easy to setup some XFCE or KDE-based environment to accomodate for the > >> modest CPU and RAM. > > > > > >Or maybe to run on the laptop only an X server that will -query your box. > >Assuming she would at least want to use a recent version of firefox, I > >would > >not recommend running it locally (from nfsroot or whatever) with less than > >256MB RAM. > > > > That's what I realized after sending my question - once Linux is up and > running on the laptop it better just XDMCP login to my Debian Desktop. > Then maybe LTSP +etherboot is really all I need - I'll look into it, so far > it looks just right (including having ready Debian packages, of course :). BTW: something etherboot lacks is a ready-made image of "most ethernet cards". They used to have one but it bacame too big to boot. I have my own floppy image that I occasionally use ( http://rapid.sunsite.dk/rapid/install/floppy/ ) I also have a CD version of that. It required a minor tweak to the etherboot ISO making scripts (at least in 5.4.1). -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] || best ICQ# 16849755 || friend t = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simulating PXE boot?
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Amos Shapira wrote: 1. Do you know whether I should expect this to work on a laptop built in 1998 and support all the hardware on it? From digging the rom-o-matic.netand other linked sites I didn't find an answer to that. I have used it to boot full knoppix on PIII 450MHz with only 64MB ram for testing. Works like a champ. The system is even usable like this (Firefox etc). The network is faster than the cloop system and you can arrange for remote swapping. Linux is not Vista [tm]. Although knoppix etc try hard imho. 2. It still requires me to boot (or reboot) stright into linux, while I'd prefer to just be able to run a command from under Win98 to start the switch. In theory there is a trick to reboot into linux like this, using loadlin or something like that. I do not know how to do it now. BUT PXE boot images support boot menus so you can have the cd in the drive and if so a menu will ask what to do. burned into a bootable cd with floppy emulation. Then boot from this cd. It's an old, slow and noisy CD that I'd rather not rely upon. It's only needed to start the system (only the 1.44 or 2.88MB image is loaded from it). After that it stays quiet. I think that it works but it has been 2 years since I did it with a cd. Nowadays I burn PXE boot loaders into flash or eeprom when needed. The Including ancient hardware? Yes. Peter = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simulating PXE boot?
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Amos Shapira wrote: On 23/01/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have used it to boot full knoppix on PIII 450MHz with only 64MB ram Was it a laptop? Laptops have tendency to contain "special" and "nouvelle" hardware, the kind that requires "special vendor CD with addition hardware drivers" when re-installing windows and kept Linux away from laptops back in the bad old days. Are you afraid to try ? ;-) It was not a laptop, it was a bare board in a cardboard shoe box in the beginning. And yes, you are right, laptops had/have 'interesting' hardware variations. But there is only one way to find out if *your* laptop is one of them. Which you have to do about now because you need to know the exact netcard type and version (PCI ID is enough but not always) when you use rom-o-matic. 2. It still requires me to boot (or reboot) stright into linux, while I'd > prefer to just be able to run a command from under Win98 to start the > switch. In theory there is a trick to reboot into linux like this, using loadlin or something like that. I do not know how to do it now. BUT PXE boot That's what etherboot is for, as far as I understand it. etherboot deals with the generation of boot ROMs, some of which are altered such that they can be brought up from floppy for testing. Developers have added all sorts of features over time, such as boot menus and server choosers and unattended reboots to other systems using a try list afair. But etherboot does nothing but provide the tools for remote network booting. images support boot menus so you can have the cd in the drive and if so a menu will ask what to do. Again - I prefer to let my wife boot into Win98 and then decide whether she wants to switch to Linux, I'm afraid picking from a boot menu or having to reboot to do that will keep her away from trying this. Use stronger persuasion. Or wait for the next Win98 crash when there will be no other option until you find the time to ... reinstall. Something or other. One way to turn users off wrt. Linux is to force it upon them. Same for anything else. Like Vista for example. I hope. Also there is a version of linux that runs 'under' windows. I don't know if it works with W98. I haven't used windows for anything but seeing it boot and click 3 times since W95. It's only needed to start the system (only the 1.44 or 2.88MB image is loaded from it). After that it stays quiet. Can't it be executed from a file on the DOS hard disk? AS I SAID BEFORE it might but it involves a reboot, strictly speaking. Once inside a system there is no way to change to another system without the equivalent of a reboot. Whether a VM reboot is a reboot is negotiable but for the user it will feel like a reboot, look like a reboot, and take as long as a reboot takes. So you can call it whatever you want, the user will THINK it's a reboot anyway. And he will be right about it. To mitigate the pain you can make a nice splash screen with etherboot so she will be able to look at something other than boot messages while waiting. Something along the lines of 'Amos is da man!' etc., that should prevent negative comments using applied psychology. Peter = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simulating PXE boot?
On 23/01/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Amos Shapira wrote: > 1. Do you know whether I should expect this to work on a laptop built in > 1998 and support all the hardware on it? From digging the > rom-o-matic.netand other linked sites I didn't find an answer to that. I have used it to boot full knoppix on PIII 450MHz with only 64MB ram Was it a laptop? Laptops have tendency to contain "special" and "nouvelle" hardware, the kind that requires "special vendor CD with addition hardware drivers" when re-installing windows and kept Linux away from laptops back in the bad old days. 2. It still requires me to boot (or reboot) stright into linux, while I'd > prefer to just be able to run a command from under Win98 to start the > switch. In theory there is a trick to reboot into linux like this, using loadlin or something like that. I do not know how to do it now. BUT PXE boot That's what etherboot is for, as far as I understand it. images support boot menus so you can have the cd in the drive and if so a menu will ask what to do. Again - I prefer to let my wife boot into Win98 and then decide whether she wants to switch to Linux, I'm afraid picking from a boot menu or having to reboot to do that will keep her away from trying this. burned into a bootable cd with floppy emulation. Then boot from this cd. > > It's an old, slow and noisy CD that I'd rather not rely upon. It's only needed to start the system (only the 1.44 or 2.88MB image is loaded from it). After that it stays quiet. Can't it be executed from a file on the DOS hard disk? Cheers, --Amos
Re: Simulating PXE boot?
On 23/01/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LTSP = Linux Terminal Services Project =~ Knoppix terminal server (which is a version of ltsp with everything already working). I see. Etherboot has a rom-o-matic service which allows you to generate and download a bootable PXE image for rom or floppy. The floppy image can be Thanks for the pointer. I wasn't aware of this. Two points about that: 1. Do you know whether I should expect this to work on a laptop built in 1998 and support all the hardware on it? From digging the rom-o-matic.netand other linked sites I didn't find an answer to that. 2. It still requires me to boot (or reboot) stright into linux, while I'd prefer to just be able to run a command from under Win98 to start the switch. burned into a bootable cd with floppy emulation. Then boot from this cd. It's an old, slow and noisy CD that I'd rather not rely upon. I think that it works but it has been 2 years since I did it with a cd. Nowadays I burn PXE boot loaders into flash or eeprom when needed. The Including ancient hardware? PXE boot loader works with ltsp and the knoppix terminal server. In fact the boot diskette that knoppix terminal server lets you make is of the exact same kind as the one you get from rom-o-matic at etherboot, and not by accident. Yes, I saw the mention of a link to ltsp from the rom-o-matic site. As to 'running knoppix just for this' you are free to copy the relevant config files from the knoppix image to your current local server and run tftpd, dhcpd and bind to make it work as you like. It looks like the Debian ltsp packages are doing this service for me already. It's your call, as they say. good luck, Peter Thanks, --Amos
Re: Simulating PXE boot?
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Amos Shapira wrote: On 23/01/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try to test it using the terminal server built into knoppix. Run knoppix on a 'server' turn on terminal server services and make a boot floppy using it, the boot the Toshiba with the floppy. This will not be fast Thanks but I don't quite follow what's the advantage here - are you suggesting to run Knoppix on my server just to create a boot floppy? Then I'll have to boot the laptop from that floppy? but you can do it in an hour. You mean - including the fruitless search for floppy disks? (where do you get such things these days?) Didi's pointer to LTSP seems to be just the right thing - I expect to be able to just install ltsp-server on Debian, download a small etherboot/ltsp client (have to clarify that) to the Windows laptop and most importantly - be able to start the Linux boot process from inside the running Win98. LTSP = Linux Terminal Services Project =~ Knoppix terminal server (which is a version of ltsp with everything already working). If you think that 'searching for a working floppy' will be your biggest problem with this endeavour I wish you a good deal or good luck. Etherboot has a rom-o-matic service which allows you to generate and download a bootable PXE image for rom or floppy. The floppy image can be burned into a bootable cd with floppy emulation. Then boot from this cd. I think that it works but it has been 2 years since I did it with a cd. Nowadays I burn PXE boot loaders into flash or eeprom when needed. The PXE boot loader works with ltsp and the knoppix terminal server. In fact the boot diskette that knoppix terminal server lets you make is of the exact same kind as the one you get from rom-o-matic at etherboot, and not by accident. As to 'running knoppix just for this' you are free to copy the relevant config files from the knoppix image to your current local server and run tftpd, dhcpd and bind to make it work as you like. It's your call, as they say. good luck, Peter = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simulating PXE boot?
On 23/01/07, Yedidyah Bar-David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2007/1/23, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > > Is it possible to achieve the same effect of PXE boot (i.e. pull > everything over the net, at most use a file on the local FAT32 disk for > swap) using some DOS/Win98 software? For a tool allowing you to do it yourself, look at etherboot. For a framework doing most of this for you, look at ltsp.org. Thanks for the pointer. Forgot about it. My motivation - we have an ancient Toshiba Sattelite 4030CDT that can boot > Ubuntu live from its CD-ROM but it's slow, my wife won't let me install > Linux over her Win98, and on top of this the CD-ROM is slow and noisy. There > is no space on the disk to install Linux besides Windows (4 or 6 Gb HD). > > So I though it would be great if I could just run something a-la > "loadlin" from inside a Win98 command-window that will pull down the kernel loadlin actually might be "good enough" and if you know it well might be less work than PXE or etherboot. I haven't touched it since the very early days of Linux. I think I'd prefer to be able to control the booted version from the server, though. Copy your favourite kernel+initrd to the laptop and set up e.g. a config.sys/autoexec.bat menu. For that matter, you can take the kernel+initrd from ltsp.org above. Thanks. Looks useful. and initramfs from my Debian Etch desktop and bootstrap from that, using NFS > root mount from the Debian disk. Once I have this I suppose it should be > easy to setup some XFCE or KDE-based environment to accomodate for the > modest CPU and RAM. Or maybe to run on the laptop only an X server that will -query your box. Assuming she would at least want to use a recent version of firefox, I would not recommend running it locally (from nfsroot or whatever) with less than 256MB RAM. That's what I realized after sending my question - once Linux is up and running on the laptop it better just XDMCP login to my Debian Desktop. Then maybe LTSP +etherboot is really all I need - I'll look into it, so far it looks just right (including having ready Debian packages, of course :). Cheers, --Amos
Re: Simulating PXE boot?
On 23/01/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try to test it using the terminal server built into knoppix. Run knoppix on a 'server' turn on terminal server services and make a boot floppy using it, the boot the Toshiba with the floppy. This will not be fast Thanks but I don't quite follow what's the advantage here - are you suggesting to run Knoppix on my server just to create a boot floppy? Then I'll have to boot the laptop from that floppy? but you can do it in an hour. You mean - including the fruitless search for floppy disks? (where do you get such things these days?) Didi's pointer to LTSP seems to be just the right thing - I expect to be able to just install ltsp-server on Debian, download a small etherboot/ltsp client (have to clarify that) to the Windows laptop and most importantly - be able to start the Linux boot process from inside the running Win98. Thanks, --Amos
