RE: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-20 Thread Lukas Press
I worked in civil engineering consultancy for the best part of ten years and although everyone used windows I always thought the business was ripe for conversion to linux/FOSS. We used various specialist applications pretty much round the clock, particularly CAD, and any reduction in the regular

German language supoort and Bittorrent-Client

2011-04-20 Thread Stefan Wille
Hi, I am new to Scientific Linux an got two questions: 1. Is there a German language support. I can't find any in the repositories. 2. Is in the basic repositories a bittorrent client. I found nothing. Sorry for my bad English an thanks for your help. Greetings, Stefan. -- Empfehlen Sie GMX

SL5 Live System on USB flash drive problem

2011-04-20 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
Hello, I made a 'livedvd64_SL55_2010-06-17' on an USB flash drive as explained in http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/usbdisk_sl4_sl5.html but when I boot the USB I got a kernel panic : Failled to execute linuxrc. Attempting defaults... Kernel panic-not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to

Virtualization in SL6 32 bit.

2011-04-20 Thread Hostetler, David B. (JSC-IT)[DB Consulting Group, Inc.]
I have a lab box, running SL6 32 bit (AMD Sempron 3000+ 32 bit) with 2gb RAM, I have a test I would like to run with the thing and create a small virtual network in the box, but I am finding that I cannot do so, when I run virt-manager I get the following error Unable to open connection to

Re: Virtualization in SL6 32 bit.

2011-04-20 Thread carlopmart
On 04/20/2011 08:14 PM, Hostetler, David B. (JSC-IT)[DB Consulting Group, Inc.] wrote: I have a lab box, running SL6 32 bit (AMD Sempron 3000+ 32 bit) with 2gb RAM, I have a test I would like to run with the thing and create a small virtual network in the box, but I am finding that I cannot do

Re: Virtualization in SL6 32 bit.

2011-04-20 Thread carlopmart
On 04/20/2011 08:20 PM, carlopmart wrote: On 04/20/2011 08:14 PM, Hostetler, David B. (JSC-IT)[DB Consulting Group, Inc.] wrote: I have a lab box, running SL6 32 bit (AMD Sempron 3000+ 32 bit) with 2gb RAM, I have a test I would like to run with the thing and create a small virtual network in

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-20 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/19/2011 03:00 PM, john h outlan wrote: I use Scientific Linux in a small CPA practice I run. Mainly because (other than being an enthusiast) I feel my data is safer. I have one CPA firm running Linux. CCH constantly threatens to go to a M$ server, but so far have not pulled the trigger

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-20 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/4/19 Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com: Hi All, I am a consultant who only works in two counties. I am currently working my way out of two jobs, which is normal.  Also means I have to do some cold calling, also normal.  And to facilitate that, I have made up a database of

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-20 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/19/2011 03:00 PM, john h outlan wrote: I use Scientific Linux in a small CPA practice I run. Mainly because (other than being an enthusiast) I feel my data is safer. Don't forget you can encrypt your hard drives with SL6. Seriously, about three years ago, this area had a rash of

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-20 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/20/2011 01:04 AM, Lukas Press wrote: I worked in civil engineering consultancy for the best part of ten years and although everyone used windows I always thoughtthe

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-20 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/20/2011 11:30 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: Almost all? From single server hosting companies to clustered scientific/medical environments ? I should check out the smaller medical groups. Ones that can not afford their own staff. Thank you! -T

Re: SL5 Live System on USB flash drive problem

2011-04-20 Thread Urs Beyerle
Hi Robert Can you please post your syslinux.cfg, which should be located in the root of your USB flash drive. In addition, you should have initrd.gzand vmlinuzin the root of your USB flash drive. Do you see the splash screen with the boot: prompt when you boot your usb stick? Is the

Re: SL5 Live System on USB flash drive problem

2011-04-20 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-04-20 +0200 à (at) 21:07:57 Urs Beyerle écrivit (wrote): -- Hi Robert Hi Urs, thanks for answering so fast :) Can you please post your syslinux.cfg, which should be located in the root of your USB flash drive. demeo:{root}:/mnt/cle1 cat syslinux.cfg

Re: RHEL/SL and iptables

2011-04-20 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 20/04/2011 02:26, Tom H a écrit : On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Robert E. Blairr...@anl.gov wrote: There is a sourceforge project called firestarter which has a rather nice script that does lots of iptables config and provides a gui monitor of firewall activity. You could also try

Re: SL5 Live System on USB flash drive problem

2011-04-20 Thread FRANCHISSEUR Robert
-- Le (On) 2011-04-20 +0200 à (at) 21:47:41 FRANCHISSEUR Robert écrivit (wrote): -- snip Do you see the splash screen with the boot: prompt when you boot your usb stick? Yes and I can skip thru the menus F1 F2 ... and the boot process start. Hello again,

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-20 Thread Lukas Press
On 04/20/2011 07:36 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 04/20/2011 01:04 AM, Lukas Press wrote: I worked in civil engineering consultancy for the best part of ten years and although everyone used windows I always thought the business was ripe for conversion to linux/FOSS. We used various

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-20 Thread Phong Nguyen
Hi Chris, What CAD software are you running on Linux. Targeting business that run that CAD may prove fruitful! Many thanks, -T I never tried any, although I heard good things about pro/engineer - http://www.ptc.com/products/creo-elements-pro/ which runs natively on linux. The big

Re: Virtualization in SL6 32 bit.

2011-04-20 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Hostetler, David B. (JSC-IT)[DB Consulting Group, Inc.] david.b.hostet...@nasa.gov wrote: I have a lab box, running SL6 32 bit (AMD Sempron 3000+ 32 bit) with 2gb RAM, I have a test I would like to run with the thing and create a small virtual network in the

Re: What kins of business use Linux?

2011-04-20 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Phong Nguyen pho...@fnal.gov wrote: Hi Chris, What CAD software are you running on Linux.  Targeting business that run that CAD may prove fruitful! Many thanks, -T I never tried any, although I heard good things about pro/engineer -

Re: Can I skip minor revisions in a SL5 upgrade

2011-04-20 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Steven Timm t...@fnal.gov wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, William Lutter wrote: basic question... It's not clear to me from the FAQ http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/upgrade.5x Can I skip from SL5.0 to 5.6 or do I need to go through the