distros for a cheap price.
Hrushikesh Tilak.
From: Ashish Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Obtaining CDs
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:47:32 +0530
Hello,
Does anyone have Gentoo 1.4 or Mandrake 9 CDs (the complete distros)
here
hello,
I am having problems in using TTF fonts in KDE 3 on Mandrake 9. I
copied the fonts from my Windows FONTS directory to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF and ran ttmkfdir and restarted XFS. The
fonts were then listed, but not usable for some reason. After
searching via google I disabled XFS,
Hi,
I'm another lurker coming out of the woodworks.. ;-)
What I'd really like to see is for the Expo to provide a recruitment
office (??) for people who are intrested in contributing to the
community in any way. Although the response may be half-hearted or
flame out after a while, I think
Amish Munshi wrote:
Ever heard about Debian's apt tools and Gentoos portage?
Not actually, are they the installers? Which one is better? I am planning
to get a full distro of one of them.
they aren't really installers (In the windows sense) but more like
command line tools which
Amish K. Munshi wrote:
On Wednesday 13 Nov 2002 4:46 pm, Ashish Kulkarni wrote:
get Debian, Gentoo requires you to download and compile everything that
you need. that sure makes for a lean and mean system, but most of us
here don't have permanent internet connections...unless you're one
hmm...subject sounds like 4 people will get dates in Linux-Bom 2003.
*runs to sign up for it* ;-)
seriously, something in early-Feb to March-end would be great. If in
April, it clashes with school exams. May-June, with exams of most
colleges and July with engg. college exams. Note that imho
get a CD from LinuxPlaza, it's faster and cheaper ;-)
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
that said, I've known the *BSD installs to be great for installing over
the net...it makes no diff where you install from, just 1 or 2 steps to
configure network before install.
Satya wrote:
On Nov
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/141251
Hey guys,
After reading this slashdot article, I was really struck by the point
made there, that you could use a Knoppix Linux _without any chance of
damage to your PC_. It's based on Debian, and it's perfect for those who
wanna
Ninad:
hello? you send a 500kb attachment to a mailing list? assuming there are
200 people on this list, that's a bandwidth of 100MB wasted!! Do you
like wasting resources this way? If you ever post to a mailing list, you
post URLs to a uploaded file, or send it directly to person involved.
[storing mail on the mailing list server, retrieval by POP3, instead
of sending it out via SMTP as god intended]
You do realise that you're re-inventing Usenet?
hmm, I know it does sound similiar to newsgroups (aside from the
protocol: NNTP vs POP3) but the key difference is that only
hello folks,
I've written a helper utility for linc helps you generate the config
file for linc automaticallyno more tweaking around with windump and
the like. see
http://www.symonds.net/~ashish/projects/linc_cfg.html
contributing in my own small way back to the community
cheers,
ashish
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