On 11/4/2011 9:50 PM, Don Quixote de la Manvha wrote:
At one time gnome and kde did not interoperate well because of different
conventions for some GUI stuff like the clipboard but those were harmonized
long ago.
You don't need all of kde, just the dependencies.
Your problem may be that
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 longest
On 2 November 2011 20:02, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 18:36:04 +,
Ian Malone ibmal...@gmail.com wrote:
Lastly, media friendliness: Fedora, again by choice, includes only
software that can be described as free and open source, this excludes
several
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 Brasero ... thank
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com 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
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 there.
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Heinz Diehl h...@fritha.org 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, 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?
Yes,
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Joe Zeff j...@zeff.us 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?
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
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
Will there still be an option to install the new grub 2 in the os
partition instead of the disk boot partition?
Frode Petersen
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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
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 are
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Linux Tyro fedora@gmail.com 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
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Linux Tyro fedora@gmail.com 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
Frode fropeter at 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
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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
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 ~/*' would
Den 05. nov. 2011 18:55, skrev JB:
Frodefropeterat 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
Good
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
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 accounts?
I
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 a
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 got a
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 script to
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 Redhat
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 all by
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 and
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