Re: [Dorset] Distro

2018-01-10 Thread John Palmer
The enlarged mouse pointer seems to have gone some way towards helping my user's sight problem. Many thanks. John -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK

Re: [Dorset] Distro

2018-01-01 Thread Tim
On 01/01/18 17:24, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Terry, So no; I don't think many of us have thought about building our own distro for very long :-) All true. For those that want to dabble and see how a system is put together, there's http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Cheers, Ralph. There is

Re: [Dorset] Distro

2018-01-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > So no; I don't think many of us have thought about building our own > distro for very long :-) All true. For those that want to dabble and see how a system is put together, there's http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09

Re: [Dorset] Distro

2018-01-01 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday, 1 January 2018 15:19:58 GMT Zed Beevor wrote: > Have you guys ever thought about building you own distribution ?. > Combined effort project and not loan wolf. Zed, It's a lot of hard work and when it's finished, there's a lot more hard work keeping it up to date with the latest

[Dorset] Distro

2018-01-01 Thread Zed Beevor
Have you guys ever thought about building you own distribution ?. Combined effort project and not loan wolf. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-01-09 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE

Re: [Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, The only problem I see is that the heading on the Start page doesn't give any clues what might be found there. I think the text that goes with the heading could also be expanded to set the scene. Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold :-) Cheers, Ralph. --

Re: [Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-31 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 31 May 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Terry, The only problem I see is that the heading on the Start page doesn't give any clues what might be found there. I think the text that goes with the heading could also be expanded to set the scene. Yes.

Re: [Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-31 Thread Simon O'Riordan
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 10:53 +0100, Terry Coles wrote: On Monday 31 May 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Terry, The only problem I see is that the heading on the Start page doesn't give any clues what might be found there. I think the text that goes with the heading could also be

Re: [Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-31 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 31 May 2010, Simon O'Riordan wrote: Terry, liking the standardisation edits. Actually. That wasn't me that was Ralph. I just followed your original format. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: C4L and Bournemouth,

Re: [Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Simon, Terry, liking the standardisation edits. That may have been me. If it is, then I've finished and will leave it alone now if someone else's waiting to edit. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: C4L and Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-06-02 19:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/

Re: [Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-30 Thread Simon O'Riordan
Terry, That's a great idea. Obviously I don't know how to set up a new page either. We need an admin and either accounts or public content? I'll take a look. Simono On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 11:31 +0100, Terry Coles wrote: On Sunday 30 May 2010, Simon O'Riordan wrote: On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 10:40

Re: [Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 30 May 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Any attempt to access a page that doesn't exist will result in the option to create this page if you're logged in, IIRC. E.g. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=foo Yes. I see how that is meant to work. So perhaps the easiest way to

Re: [Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 30 May 2010, Terry Coles wrote: Hmmm. Is there any particular reason to add the new page there? Why not just create a new section at http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php and then take it from there? After I wrote the above, I realised that the Articles page has a heading in the

Re: [Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 30/05/10 14:11, Simon O'Riordan wrote: I've put on a page. Still has a rather naff URL. Maybe somebody knows how to transfer it to somewhere more descriptive? http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:example1 Simono Not sure if there is a cleverer way but this works: -

Re: [Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 30 May 2010, Sean Gibbins wrote: On 30/05/10 14:11, Simon O'Riordan wrote: I've put on a page. Still has a rather naff URL. Maybe somebody knows how to transfer it to somewhere more descriptive? http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:example1 Simono Not sure if

Re: [Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-30 Thread Terry Coles
OK. I've done a small review of Kubuntu 10.04 at http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:linux_distribution_comparisons#terry. I'm still not sure how to delete the old page that Simon did at http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:example1. I suppose if all else fails,

Re: [Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-30 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 30/05/10 14:59, Terry Coles wrote: OK. I've done a small review of Kubuntu 10.04 at http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:linux_distribution_comparisons#terry. I'm still not sure how to delete the old page that Simon did at

Re: [Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 30 May 2010, Sean Gibbins wrote: From the dokuwiki faq*: If you save an empty page, then DokuWiki will delete the page, and the associated pagename http://www.dokuwiki.org/pagename. (Note that the attic http://www.dokuwiki.org/attic remains.) I've now spotted the 'faded' dokuwiki

Re: [Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-30 Thread Simon O'Riordan
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Re: [Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-30 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 30 May 2010, Terry Coles wrote: OK. I've done a small review of Kubuntu 10.04 at http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:linux_distribution_compa risons#terry. I've now added reviews of UNR and KNE 10.04. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing

[Dorset] Distro debate

2010-05-29 Thread Kevin Giles
Hi folks, The '10.04? Not bloody likely' thread seems to have turned into a distro debate so I thought I'd throw in my bit. I appear to differ from most in that I do not like to have the latest greatest, my computer is a tool I want to be able to rely on so I prefer the proven. I also believe