Re: [Dorset] 10 Things I'd change in linux

2010-11-04 Thread Natalie Hooper
I go away for about 24 hours and come back to what I was hoping in the first place, ie other people's lists :-) @Tim: I like the way you summed up the problem of choice for a new user and I like the idea of recommendations from the distro maintainers. @jr: I think it's great for those who know a

Re: [Dorset] 10 Things I'd change in linux

2010-11-04 Thread Justin Stringfellow
Re: OpenOffice, I'm curious to know what will happen to it now that it's been bought by Oracle. I've heard that it's going to be forked. Anybody knows about that? See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/openoffice_independence_from_oracle/ Open sourcers have seized control of the

Re: [Dorset] 10 Things I'd change in linux

2010-11-04 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 04/11/10 08:59, Justin Stringfellow wrote: Re: OpenOffice, I'm curious to know what will happen to it now that it's been bought by Oracle. I've heard that it's going to be forked. Anybody knows about that? See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/openoffice_independence_from_oracle/

[Dorset] gcc linker question - segments

2010-11-04 Thread Tim Allen
Hi I'm using gcc for compiling m68k code and the linker is combining two sections into a single segment and padding the gap with zeros - that happens to be bad news for me. I believe the way around this is by specifying my own segments with PHDRS{} but so far all my efforts result in a Not

Re: [Dorset] 10 Things I'd change in linux

2010-11-04 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:36:25PM +, jr wrote: On 3 November 2010 10:31, John Carlyle-Clarke j...@wormdrive.net wrote: My list would be: (2) Create something to rival and improve on Remote Desktop on Windows.  VNC, remote X11 and No Machine don't quite do it, although all of them are

Re: [Dorset] 10 Things I'd change in linux

2010-11-04 Thread jr
hi John, I use rdesktop to connect to Windows machines a lot, but AFAIK there is no Linux server for this protocol. a quick google on 'linux rdp server' found xrdp: http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/ and the following comments: http://www.whenpenguinsattack.com/2006/04/19/rdp-server-for-linux/

Re: [Dorset] gcc linker question - segments

2010-11-04 Thread Tim Allen
On 04/11/10 10:41, Tim Allen wrote: Hi I'm using gcc for compiling m68k code and the linker is combining two sections into a single segment and padding the gap with zeros - that happens to be bad news for me. I believe the way around this is by specifying my own segments with PHDRS{} but so

Re: [Dorset] Thanks to Terry

2010-11-04 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday 03 Nov 2010, Peter Merchant wrote: For the help and guidance last night. I managed to get rid of this slow shrinking of applications on screen when minimized and also the small Desktop window by going to settings, Workspace appearance, and disabling Desktop effects. I did not

Re: [Dorset] 10 Things I'd change in linux

2010-11-04 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 04 Nov 2010, Justin Stringfellow wrote: Re: OpenOffice, I'm curious to know what will happen to it now that it's been bought by Oracle. I've heard that it's going to be forked. Anybody knows about that? See:

[Dorset] The Linux Advantage

2010-11-04 Thread Peter Merchant
When last I was allowed out without a minder on Tuesday night, I left an advertising newsletter from LinuxIT with Paul. Today when I went to work there was another. This time there is a competition to win an Android tablet. Let me know if you win.

Re: [Dorset] The Linux Advantage

2010-11-04 Thread Peter Merchant
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 17:35 +, Peter Merchant wrote: When last I was allowed out without a minder on Tuesday night, I left an advertising newsletter from LinuxIT with Paul. Today when I went to work there was another. This time there is a competition to win an Android tablet. Let me know