[SOLVED:] k3b [WAS: Re: gnomebaker [WAS: Re: question(s) on Brasero (maybe bug)]]

2011-11-05 Thread Paul Allen Newell
I have submitted a bug on k3b regarding crashing on "simulate write" when an actual burn works. Aside from that, it works great (in my opinion, better than brasero and/or gnomebaker). I'm still playing to make sure I am 100% certain, but I think I've got another item checked off on the list of

Re: Is btrfs ready to be default fs in F17 ?

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 11/05/2011 01:45 PM, JB wrote: > Are we in a "progress"-in-reverse mode in fs land ? > > Could we ask btrfs devs to present their own test results ? You're very much welcome to post on the btrfs list and ask yourself. > Perhaps you could make your statement in the upcoming Fedora Project Board

Re: A general history question

2011-11-05 Thread scott
On 11/05/2011 03:10 PM, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > Richard Stallman and his colleagues at The Freesoftware Foundation > assert that the proper term is "GNU/Linux", because in reality linux > is just - "just!" - the operating system kernel. > > There's not a whole lot you can do with a kernel

Re: A general history question

2011-11-05 Thread Alan Cox
> the distros, almost all. Well, openSUSE also uses the technique of .rpm > which is again Red Hat Package Manager. So basically i get to know that it > was initially in Linux two sides -- 1) debian 2) rpm (as already discussed) > but just wanted to know that openSUSE also has been derived from Red

Re: gnomebaker [WAS: Re: question(s) on Brasero (maybe bug)]

2011-11-05 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 11/5/2011 4:19 AM, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > The find command will easily determine the longest path in your directory > tree. > > If "~/foo" is the root of the tree that you want to burn, try: > > $ cd ~/foo > $ find . -print> ../paths.txt > > Awhile back I'd written a python

Re: gnomebaker [WAS: Re: question(s) on Brasero (maybe bug)]

2011-11-05 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 11/5/2011 5:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > No problem. yum will take care of dependencies when you install it, and > it should run fine. For example, I'm writing this in Evolution, even > though I run KDE as my desktop (i.e. the other way round). > > poc > Poc: I would agree but as I've

Re: A general history question

2011-11-05 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
Richard Stallman and his colleagues at The Freesoftware Foundation assert that the proper term is "GNU/Linux", because in reality linux is just - "just!" - the operating system kernel. There's not a whole lot you can do with a kernel all by itself. While the kernel is the first program to run in

Re: Preparing for F16 / uid/gid limit

2011-11-05 Thread Frode
Den 05. nov. 2011 19:29, skrev Frode: > Den 05. nov. 2011 18:35, skrev Ian Chapman: >> On 06/11/11 01:00, Frode wrote: >> >>> The other option would be to change uid/gid for all files and modify F15 >>> accordingly. Would this require me to change more than uid/gid for all >>> the files and user ac

Is btrfs ready to be default fs in F17 ?

2011-11-05 Thread JB
Hi, Ext3, ext4, xfs and btrfs filesystems comparison on Linux kernel 3.0.0 http://www.ilsistemista.net/index.php/linux-a-unix/21-ext3-ext4-xfs-and-btrfs-filesystems-comparison-on-linux-kernel-300.html Various tests show ext3 and ext4 are the leaders, with btrfs in last place (also using way mor

Re: Preparing for F16 / Grub 1-2

2011-11-05 Thread Frode
Den 05. nov. 2011 18:55, skrev JB: > Frode online.no> writes: > >> >> Will there still be an option to install the new grub 2 in the os >> partition instead of the disk boot partition? >> >> Frode Petersen > > I have done just that with F16 RCx live-cd to hd installation, so it is final. > JB > >

Re: Preparing for F16 / uid/gid limit

2011-11-05 Thread Frode
Den 05. nov. 2011 18:35, skrev Ian Chapman: > On 06/11/11 01:00, Frode wrote: > >> The other option would be to change uid/gid for all files and modify F15 >> accordingly. Would this require me to change more than uid/gid for all >> the files and user accounts? >> >> I guess 'chown -R newUID:newGID

Re: Preparing for F16 / uid/gid limit

2011-11-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 18:00 +0100, Frode wrote: > I guess 'chown -R newUID:newGID ~/*' would be the wrong way to do > this, if there are files with other values for oldUID/oldGID? You might consider 'chown -R --from oldUID:oldGID newUID:newGID ...'. This will affect only files belonging to oldUID:

Re: Preparing for F16 / Grub 1-2

2011-11-05 Thread JB
Frode online.no> writes: > > Will there still be an option to install the new grub 2 in the os > partition instead of the disk boot partition? > > Frode Petersen I have done just that with F16 RCx live-cd to hd installation, so it is final. JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: A general history question

2011-11-05 Thread inode0
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Linux Tyro wrote: > Hi, > > Excited to see this world of Linux. A general question came in mind > regarding the origin of Linux. > > Well, it (Linux) is basically a kernel -- perhaps same in majority of all > the distros, almost all. Well, openSUSE also uses the te

Re: A general history question

2011-11-05 Thread Linux Tyro
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Linux Tyro wrote: Excited to see this world of Linux. A general question came in mind > regarding the origin of Linux. > > Well, it (Linux) is basically a kernel -- perhaps same in majority of all > the distros, almost all. Well, openSUSE also uses the technique of

Re: Preparing for F16 / uid/gid limit

2011-11-05 Thread Ian Chapman
On 06/11/11 01:00, Frode wrote: > The other option would be to change uid/gid for all files and modify F15 > accordingly. Would this require me to change more than uid/gid for all > the files and user accounts? > > I guess 'chown -R newUID:newGID ~/*' would be the wrong way to do this, > if there

A general history question

2011-11-05 Thread Linux Tyro
Hi, Excited to see this world of Linux. A general question came in mind regarding the origin of Linux. Well, it (Linux) is basically a kernel -- perhaps same in majority of all the distros, almost all. Well, openSUSE also uses the technique of .rpm which is again Red Hat Package Manager. So basic

Preparing for F16 / Grub 1-2

2011-11-05 Thread Frode
Will there still be an option to install the new grub 2 in the os partition instead of the disk boot partition? Frode Petersen -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: htt

Preparing for F16 / uid/gid limit

2011-11-05 Thread Frode
In preparation for F16, I wonder what the best approach to handling the new uid/gid limit is. I'm not upgrading, so the new limit will be in effect after installing the new Fedora. I always keep the old version for at least the duration of the next release cycle, so I can go back in case of tro

Re: Thanks to Fedora community; Installation & Disk Partitioning ISSUE

2011-11-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/05/2011 08:42 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > Unfortunately, this safeguard does get in the way of my desire to > hibernate Linux and boot into Windows. So I get around this by booting > from /home. The master boot block contains pointers to the /home boot > configuration that has nothing in it but c

Re: Thanks to Fedora community; Installation & Disk Partitioning ISSUE

2011-11-05 Thread Linux Tyro
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: For a partition to be bootable, it has to have the appropriate files on > it to boot your computer. Can you give me one reason why you'd want to > have those files in /home, even if it is on its own partition, as it is > on my computers? > Not ha

Re: Thanks to Fedora community; Installation & Disk Partitioning ISSUE

2011-11-05 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 08:25 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > For a partition to be bootable, it has to have the appropriate files on > it to boot your computer. Can you give me one reason why you'd want to > have those files in /home, even if it is on its own partition, as it is > on my computers? Ye

Re: windows migrant: choosing linux distribution

2011-11-05 Thread Linux Tyro
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: There are lots of good distributions out there. Just download a live > CD .ISO, burn it, boot it and see what you've got. After playing > around a little while with all of them, you'll surely find your way. > Sure and thanks man. On Sat, Nov 5

Re: Thanks to Fedora community; Installation & Disk Partitioning ISSUE

2011-11-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/05/2011 07:01 AM, Linux Tyro wrote: > I was confused since I thought earlier that partitions are always > bootable, but we can have /home as partition which is still not booted > (for clarification). For a partition to be bootable, it has to have the appropriate files on it to boot your com

Re: windows migrant: choosing linux distribution

2011-11-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 02.11.2011, Linux Tyro wrote: > i am new in this world of linux. getting confused seeing a lot of linux > distro. I just want to use linux distro to learn linux from the scratch > level. please suggest me if fedora is the best place to start with. There are lots of good distributions out ther

Re: Thanks to Fedora community; Installation & Disk Partitioning ISSUE

2011-11-05 Thread Linux Tyro
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > In principle one probably could tweak a system into booting from the /home > partition, but I see no reason to ever want such a configuration. > You want to think of the /home partition as your working area --- it is > used > for storing

Re: gnomebaker [WAS: Re: question(s) on Brasero (maybe bug)]

2011-11-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 20:04 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > On 11/4/2011 6:51 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > I've not been following this thread, but is "try k3b" too obvious? > > (apart from pointing out that it's Brasero, not Brassero). > > > > poc > > > Poc: > > My bad on spelling of

Re: windows migrant: choosing linux distribution

2011-11-05 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 November 2011 20:02, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 18:36:04 +, >  Ian Malone wrote: >> >> Lastly, media friendliness: Fedora, again by choice, includes only >> software that can be described as free and open source, this excludes >> several things such as mp3 playback

Re: gnomebaker [WAS: Re: question(s) on Brasero (maybe bug)]

2011-11-05 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
The find command will easily determine the longest path in your directory tree. If "~/foo" is the root of the tree that you want to burn, try: $ cd ~/foo $ find . -print > ../paths.txt I expect there is some simple combination of command-line tools that would yield the length of the longes