Re: [SLUG] PC-BSD vs Desktop-BSD
I just listened to a interview on the Linux Link Tech show with Kristofer Moore - Founder of the PC-BSD project, from what Im hearing PC-BSD is anything other than a minor hack of FreeBSD. You can listen to the interview via this podcast http://www.thelinuxlink.net/tllts/tllts.rss He gives a very good rundown of what PC-BSD is and what it offers. PS its show # 112 On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 18:08 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > looking at pc-bsd its just a nicely wrapped freebsd Regards Richard Neal "Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors than copyright infringement, or even outright piracy." Seen on Slashdot 30-09-2005 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] PC-BSD vs Desktop-BSD
looking at pc-bsd its just a nicely wrapped freebsd being a very very very big fan of freebsd, its linux emulation is excellent and i highly recommend it. i prefer a lot of things about bsd (most are very much personal preference things. ie i prefer the bsd boot method) and there are a few things that i prefer in linux - well just debian actually. if you are confident with linux cli you should have no problems with the BSD's. they are very well documented and well organised with great user lists etc. i recommend that anyone wanting to get really good with unix (aka linux), take the plunge and familiarise themselves with bsd's thus making yourself less distribution dependant and a more usefull member of society ;) Dean Domingo Llavero wrote: Hi All, I am curious to see if anyone has tested either PC-BSD or Desktop-BSD. I was looking for feedback using either of the distros, esp with compatibility with Linux apps. I understand that both of the distros are targetted towards the end user with easy to use graphical installers. I know that there are differences between the two, but I was looking for first hand feedback (in general too). Thanks, Dom -- WWW: http://deanpatrick.tk LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux music appliances?
Luke Kendall wrote: Surely someone is putting together a small noiseless PC loaded up with software to make a music appliance? Surely? I could build one myself given time, but I'd rather take the quick way out if there was one. does a bit more than what you asked, but its probably as close as you will get. http://www.hmc.com.au/hmc/welcome.php the d1 guys run mythtv on their linux stuff - not sure what distro dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux music appliances?
This is probably a dumb question ... I'm looking for a small, quiet, Linux-based music appliance. The ideal would be a small fanless PC with CD drive and hard drive, little 2-line LCD screen and remote, with stereo audio outputs to load CDs in that then get converted into MP3s on an internal hard drive. So you have all your music in a handy system you can connect to your stereo system. The MP3beamer sounded interesting but no contact info, a dead and archived support forum at Linspire, make me think it's dead. Searches on http://linuxdevices.com/ seem to keep turning up dead/defunct business and old products. (Or things like the perfect PhatBox, which is designed as a car stereo and mainly onsold via Volvo, BMW, etc.) The only other things I've found are expensive high-end systems like the Sonos (above $1000 US). Surely someone is putting together a small noiseless PC loaded up with software to make a music appliance? Surely? I could build one myself given time, but I'd rather take the quick way out if there was one. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] PC-BSD vs Desktop-BSD
Hi All, I am curious to see if anyone has tested either PC-BSD or Desktop-BSD. I was looking for feedback using either of the distros, esp with compatibility with Linux apps. I understand that both of the distros are targetted towards the end user with easy to use graphical installers. I know that there are differences between the two, but I was looking for first hand feedback (in general too). Thanks, Dom -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Ethereal filter form
Terry Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > Can someone tell me the correct form for capture and display filters for > ethereal for a host = 192.168.0.1 > > ip.addr == 192.168.0.1 was what I thought the capture one was, but now > it squarks. Capture uses tcpdump syntax. host 192.168.0.1 BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Ethereal filter form
Can someone tell me the correct form for capture and display filters for
ethereal for a host = 192.168.0.1
ip.addr == 192.168.0.1 was what I thought the capture one was, but now
it squarks.
TIA
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Re: [SLUG] man pages without the colour
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:13:03PM +1100, Daniel Bush wrote: > Thanks Ken. > I forgot about directly piping it like that. > But I still got the colour in less. I was stumped for a while before trying > my famous sed mangling-script again: > man xyz | sed -e 's/.^H//g' | less > and lo! crisp white manpages did materialise before me! > Ugly hack though. I think the standard thing to use is col -b It has roughly the same effect as that sed. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] metacity cfg
Can someone tell me how to configure metecity win mgr to actually open the windows, rather than just gently pulse the docked window title? (e.g. gaim's "raise on chat event" setting doesn't actually raise the window) If you haven't guessed, it's a new Ubuntu install. -- Regards Peter Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /\/\*http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/ PGP public key ID: 1024D/D0EDB64D fingerprint = AD0A C5DF C426 4F03 5D53 2BDB 18D8 A4E2 D0ED B64D See http://www.keyserver.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] metacity cfg
Can some kind person please tell me how to configure metacity to allow applications to un-iconify their windows on events - e.g. gaim and to open new windows - e.g. firefox. At the moment, all it does is gently pulse the title in the application docking bar thingy, which I completely fail to notice. -- Regards Peter Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /\/\*http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/ PGP public key ID: 1024D/D0EDB64D fingerprint = AD0A C5DF C426 4F03 5D53 2BDB 18D8 A4E2 D0ED B64D See http://www.keyserver.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] metacity cfg
Can some kind person please tell me how to get metacity window manager to stop suppressing window raise events. I would like to have things like gaim and firefox be alble to open and raise windows without the cute pulsing icon thing happening. I never notice. -- Regards Peter Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /\/\*http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/ PGP public key ID: 1024D/D0EDB64D fingerprint = AD0A C5DF C426 4F03 5D53 2BDB 18D8 A4E2 D0ED B64D See http://www.keyserver.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] man pages without the colour
On 12/2/05, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 20:14 +1100, Daniel Bush wrote:> (I'm aware of nroff and groff and /etc/manpath.config; even tried to> mangle their output using sed)try man xyz | lessman is context aware and if it not a console (ie pipe) it possibly will not highlight.Thanks Ken.I forgot about directly piping it like that.But I still got the colour in less. I was stumped for a while before trying my famous sed mangling-script again: man xyz | sed -e 's/.^H//g' | lessand lo! crisp white manpages did materialise before me!Ugly hack though.(The ^H may or may not have something to do with the -c flag for nroff)Daniel. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] man pages without the colour
Hi Folks,Does anyone have a way of turning off the wretched colouring used by the manpage system (specifically on debian) ?It conflicts with the colour backgrounds I'm using so, ironically, all the bits it is highlighting like titles are virtually unreadable - it's like they assume everyone uses a white terminal or something. Colour in manpages is one bit of "progress" I can do without.(I'm aware of nroff and groff and /etc/manpath.config; even tried to mangle their output using sed)Thanks,Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ubuntu + packages
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 19:55 +1100, James Purser wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 20:00 +1100, Yosep Widjaja Kasim wrote: > > > > I am just wondering about latest ubuntu that ship with 14 CDs like debian > > > Ubuntu comes on one cd and can be downloaded from here > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/download/ This may need a little more. Ubuntu, and debian for that matter, have worked out the most common things that go onto a system and placed that on one CD. Once you have installed the CD you can add to you setup easily to include any of the other programs you need using the Internet. You can review the tools available to you using a graphical interface called synaptic (system->administration->synaptic). There are a huge number of tools available but the likely hood of you using them is not that high. Thanks Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ubuntu + packages
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 20:00 +1100, Yosep Widjaja Kasim wrote: > Hi all > > I am trying to use ubuntu now since there is much nice review about them :) > > I am just wondering about latest ubuntu that ship with 14 CDs like debian > > where can i download them? > > many thanks in advance Ubuntu comes on one cd and can be downloaded from here http://www.ubuntulinux.org/download/ -- James Purser Chief Talking Guy - Linux Australia Update http://k-sit.com - My Blog http://la-pod.k-sit.com - Linux Australia Update Blog and Forums Skype: purserj1977 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ubuntu + packages
Hi all I am trying to use ubuntu now since there is much nice review about them :) I am just wondering about latest ubuntu that ship with 14 CDs like debian where can i download them? many thanks in advance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: [dunlug] Open source beer recipe!]
cant find the source code so I can compile my own keg. make beer make: *** No rule to make target `beer'. Stop. On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 18:32 +1100, Karin Purser wrote: "What's this "Vores Øl"? Vores Øl (Our Beer) is a great tasting energetic beer and it's the world's first open source beer! It is based on classic ale brewing traditions but with added guarana for a natural energy-boost. Version 1.0 is a medium strong beer (6% vol) with a deep golden red color and an original but familiar taste We think that our open source beer is a nice twist on this quote, and we think it is interesting to see if our beer grows stronger, out in the free, and perhaps one day becomes the Linux of beers. Who knows?" http://www.voresoel.dk/main.php?id=70 Kathinka. Regards Richard Neal "Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors than copyright infringement, or even outright piracy." Seen on Slashdot 30-09-2005 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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