On Mon 2017-01-09 (22:33), Peter Flynn wrote:
> I must have been off-planet when /opt got "standardised"...I still don't
> know where it came from.
SysV UNIX
> Possibly one of the most unnecessary changes ever to affect Linux.
It is a good idea. You can place an optional software package in
I saw it uses /etc/os-release, which is so well-named that there is no
doubt about what it's good for but I did not know existed. It's good to
know though
There are many good ideas which have never succeeded, alas.
Amen
That's the kind of thing that drives me up the wall. There should be
On Mon 2017-01-09 (17:03), pereira wrote:
> Another post mentioned that your way of doing it is not necessarily
Which way?
> You mention putting them in /opt: the problem is then that they
> disappear when you install a new version from scratch, so now I put
> them under
> /home (and, I'm
On 01/09/2017 10:03 PM, pereira wrote:
> On 01/09/2017 08:19 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
[...]
>> Though I am German, I have NEVER written German programs. All my
>> programs are in English, because this is the world languange.
All my [few] programs are in English, but I have also written the
Ulli,
Another post mentioned that your way of doing it is not necessarily
the canonical (that is, preferred; not the Ubuntu people) .
I do not write programs just for Ubuntu. Seldomly I wrote Linux-only code.
Normally my programs are generic for all UNIX systems, even MacOS.
Therefore I do not
On Mon 2017-01-09 (07:53), Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > Try:
> > Ctrl-Alt-F1
> >
>
> Gets me to a command console. But it doesn't help much because
>
> > Ctrl-Alt-F7
> >
>
> just takes me back to the black screen.
I have hoped this will reset your X11 driver.
It was just a guess/try.
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On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 4:45 AM, Ulli Horlacher <
frams...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> On Thu 2017-01-05 (09:28), Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > The problem is that when the driver blanks the screens, I cannot get back
> > into the system. Most of the things you'd expect to bring it back with
>
On Mon 2017-01-09 (10:51), Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >I would suggest that any new to Linux browse
> >http://fex.belwue.de/fstools/index.html just to gain perspective
> >of what can be done at the command line.
>
> I'm not per se against such helpers, but they aren't good examples to
> learn using
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 08:24:03 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>I would suggest that any new to Linux browse
>http://fex.belwue.de/fstools/index.html just to gain perspective
>of what can be done at the command line.
Hi,
I strongly recommend against it, since this would teach wrong
approaches.
I'm
On Sun 2017-01-08 (19:59), pereira wrote:
> > Everbody working with the shell should know what $PATH is.
> > If you do not know what a shell is, then fstools is nothing for you.
> Actually, I did know just enough to get the $PATH added, but as you
> pointed out, not in what you consider the
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