Ben Duncan wrote:
Ok, tried to load SuSe 8.2 on a P 150MHZ with 80MB ram and
a 4GB hard disk ... needless to say, WAY OVERKILL for the poor old
machine.
Need some sort of distro that can:
A: Includes the Gcc compiler/Python/Perl/etc ...
B: Will work on such a weak machine (hmmm a few years ago
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Quoth Ben Duncan:
I need to any recommendations on a -easy- to configure, resource light
desktop manager. Need to add and run Open Office, some email programs,
and a terminal emulation.
The ABSOLUTE lightest window manager, which ships with most ALL XFree sources
is... TADAH... TAB
It's from a how-to on converting a root partition to xfs.
what does the following command do?
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /mnt
cd /
tar lvcf - . | (cd /mnt ; tar xpvf -)
can I use cp -a to achieve what the tar did?
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Quoth Ben Duncan:
Ok, tried to load SuSe 8.2 on a P 150MHZ with 80MB ram and
a 4GB hard disk ... needless to say, WAY OVERKILL for the poor old machine.
Need some sort of distro that can:
A: Includes the Gcc compiler/Python/Perl/etc ...
B: Will work on such a weak machine (hmmm a few
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Just in case you have this problem.
I downloaded acrobat reader from the lindows warehouse (Debian system). It
wouldn't open valid pdf documents or items linked on the internet.
As usual, knowing bash helps.
which acroread shows that the acroread command is really a script:
#!/bin/bash
cd
Kurt Wall wrote:
Quoth Ben Duncan:
Ok, tried to load SuSe 8.2 on a P 150MHZ with 80MB ram and
a 4GB hard disk ... needless to say, WAY OVERKILL for the poor old machine.
Need some sort of distro that can:
A: Includes the Gcc compiler/Python/Perl/etc ...
B: Will work on such a weak machine (hmmm
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On Friday 31 October 2003 10:37 pm, dep wrote:
what the hell is this crap?
Would seem that the southern Limeys at the University of Natal are a stuck up
firewall that not only blocks but bounces.
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Immediate response to slackware:
MIKIE LIKESIT !!
First time I have tried it, So far, SO REALLY GOOD. Will hafta
inform all when install gets done ...
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Kurt Wall wrote:
Quoth Ben Duncan:
Ok, tried to load SuSe 8.2 on a P
Need some sort of distro that can:
A: Includes the Gcc compiler/Python/Perl/etc ...
B: Will work on such a weak machine (hmmm a few years ago
we thought that kinda power was studly ...)
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does one need to pay Lindows to access her warehouse?
I downloaded acrobat reader from the lindows warehouse (Debian system). It
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It turns out that there is a third bug in the vendor supplied startup
script. It is in the third line.
If you make a link on your desktop to this command, and click on the link,
you always get an error since $* is null.
So, changing the script again:
#!/bin/bash
# cd ~/MyDocuments
[ -z $* ]
Quoth Ben Duncan:
Immediate response to slackware:
MIKIE LIKESIT !!
Knew you would. It's kind a retro, as Linux distributions go,
but my experience is that it leaves you close to the metal and
doesn't install a bunch of crap you don't need.
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On November 1, 2003 07:05 am, Jerry McBride wrote:
Quoth Ben Duncan:
I need to any recommendations on a -easy- to configure, resource
light desktop manager. Need to add and run Open Office, some
email programs, and a terminal emulation.
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Quoth M.W. Chang:
It's from a how-to on converting a root partition to xfs.
what does the following command do?
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /mnt
Mount the ext2 file system on /dev/hda6 at /mnt
cd /
Obvious.
tar lvcf - . | (cd /mnt ; tar xpvf -)
Invoke tar on the current directory (.)
it's the - that I didn't understand. thanks.
so tar will always back up the permissions and ownership with c ?
tar lvcf - . | (cd /mnt ; tar xpvf -)
Invoke tar on the current directory (.) without recursing outside
of the current directory's file system (l) and verbosely (v) create
(c) an
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:22:46 +0100
Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would be interested to know if the driver for wireless lan cards using
the ACX100 chipset from TI is included. I have added the driver by hand
to 8.2 but would love to see it properly integrated in 9 so it starts
I was in Dallas this week for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists
meeting. A few interesting Unix/Linux items to report.
I spoke with the guys in the Sun booth about their desktop (Mad Hatter).
It is currently certified for Suse, though Redhat is in the works.
Curiously, Landmark (one of the
Quoth Alan Jackson:
[...]
the AMD Opteron 64 bit for clusters. IBM had a rather nice blade
system which could take whatever you want, AMD, Intel, or other. And
I saw a Sun system perform much like an SGI. So things are continuing to
progress.
Stupid question: What exactly is a blade server?
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, Kurt Wall wrote:
Quoth Alan Jackson:
[...]
the AMD Opteron 64 bit for clusters. IBM had a rather nice blade
system which could take whatever you want, AMD, Intel, or other. And
I saw a Sun system perform much like an SGI. So things are continuing to
progress.
Stupid
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 14:21:22 -0600
Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was in Dallas this week for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists
meeting. A few interesting Unix/Linux items to report.
Thanks, Alan, there are some encouraging things here.
Terence
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 15:21:33 -0500
Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoth Alan Jackson:
[...]
the AMD Opteron 64 bit for clusters. IBM had a rather nice blade
system which could take whatever you want, AMD, Intel, or other. And
I saw a Sun system perform much like an SGI. So things
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Matthew Carpenter wrote:
Will this break my email filtering rules again?
no
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does one need to pay Lindows to access her warehouse?
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