Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions

2015-08-21 Thread Ali Corbin
I tend to use a LTS Mint at home, and CentOS at work. The advantage of Mint is that it comes with packages that will play DVDs or mp3 files. You can do this for CentOS, but you have to find third-party packages to install. The advantage of CentOS is that it's super stable. Which can also mean

Re: [PLUG] Virtual box does not see usb

2015-08-21 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:40 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 20:15:53 -0700 King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com dijo: On 08/20/2015 06:39 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: I have successfully migrated to 14.04 on a new 1 T HD from 12.04 on an older 0.5T HD.

[PLUG] Fedora 21 OSX samba connection not working.

2015-08-21 Thread mitch portland
Hi Guys, I thought I'd try a local resource. I have a Fedora 21 and an OSX 10.10.5 system on the same network. I've tried applying all the information I could find through google searches on the subject, and it appears I have smb and nmb running on the Fedora box, but nothing is showing up in the

Re: [PLUG] Virtual box does not see usb

2015-08-21 Thread Denis Heidtmann
On checking all over Google I see that installing an Extension Pack (not the same as Guest Additions) may be needed. Unfortunately Oracle does not have an extension pack for the version of VB that Ubuntu decided to include in their repositories (4.3.10_ubuntu r93012) I tried one for 4.3.28, but

Re: [PLUG] Virtual box does not see usb

2015-08-21 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:53:01 -0700 Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com dijo: This may not be the first time I have been burned by Ubuntu's proclivity to tweak other's applications. It seems the only solution is to uninstall Ubuntu's and install Oracle's. What a royal pain! Where is a good

Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions

2015-08-21 Thread Russell Senior
Jim == Jim Webb jimwebb...@gmail.com writes: Jim I'm just considering running a desktop on my home network. I've been using Gnome Ubuntu 14.04.x on most of my desktops, which is pretty easily tunable (about 6 settings using Tweak Tool) to have a reasonable traditional-ish desktop experience,