You can scramble but I will forever always say cli can never screw up, never slow anything down and never crash. Guis you need to worry about libraries, toolkits, etc. It's a big mess. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rimkus, Robert W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:15 AM Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux
> Hurst Wrote: > >>Put it this way, Debian 4.0 etch includes gnome 2.14. I think that says a >>lot and gives some insight to how outdated all other packages are. I just >>want to install it and run it in command line, no desktops or anything. > > Get it installed and bring it up. Go into the /etc/inittab and look for > the line that begins with the characters 'id:5', there will be more after > that but > there is only one line like that. > > Change the digit five to the digit three and save. Then type 'init 3' on > the command line. > > That will put you in runlevel 3 which does not support X and next time you > boot it will bring you to a login prompt on the console. You will live > happily > ever after in a command line environment. > > But what is this orca? It seems as though that gives us access to X > Windows. When I look around me at work, most everyone is using some sort > of GUI. > > Shouldn't we all be scrambling towards GUIs like the rest of the lemmings? > > I would certainly like to have a dependable, reliable, stable interface to > X Windows like I do to the command line. I had better check it out and > find out > for myself. > > bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Hurst, Cody > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 9:17 PM > To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. > Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux > > > Put it this way, Debian 4.0 etch includes gnome 2.14. I think that says a > lot and gives some insight to how outdated all other packages are. I just > want to install it and run it in command line, no desktops or anything. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rimkus, Robert W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." > <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 2:13 PM > Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux > > >> Hurst Wrote: >>> As a side note, is rhel 4/5 really as outdated as debian stable? >> >> I have no experience with Debian yet so I cannot compare. >> >> My experience with RHEL 4/5 leaves something to be desired. If you want >> to build a kernel and have it run then I would stick with Fedora! >> >> But the guys on this list seem to favor Debian so that might be the >> direction you would consider going. I am serious looking at it. >> >> Regards, >> >> bob >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Behalf Of Hurst, Cody >> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 6:03 PM >> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. >> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux >> >> >> As a side note, is rhel 4/5 really as outdated as debian stable? >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Rimkus, Robert W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." >> <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 5:02 AM >> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux >> >> >>> Hurst Wrote: >>>>as long as it is later than 2.99z then I will be fine. >>> >>> I believe 3.7.2 comes on RHEL 4 but I had to pull the FC6 copy of brltty >>> to run it on RHEL5. >>> FC7 does not have it at all. >>> >>> bob >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Behalf Of Hurst, Cody >>> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 5:25 PM >>> To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. >>> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux >>> >>> >>> as long as it is later than 2.99z then I will be fine. >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Jason White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 3:24 PM >>> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] redhat enterprise linux >>> >>> >>>> On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 12:44:12PM -0800, Hurst, Cody wrote: >>>>> Does brltty come on Rhel5? orr 4? >>>> >>>> I don't know, but if it does, it will be an old version, and you would >>>> be >>>> better served by compiling a new version from source anyway. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. >>>> To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] >>>> For general information, go to: >>>> http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>>> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>>> Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.0/1136 - Release Date: >>>> 11/17/2007 2:55 PM >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. >>> To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] >>> For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty >>> _______________________________________________ >>> This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. >>> To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] >>> For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty >>> >>> >>> -- >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>> Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.7/1152 - Release Date: >>> 11/26/2007 10:50 AM >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. >> To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] >> For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty >> _______________________________________________ >> This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. >> To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] >> For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.7/1152 - Release Date: >> 11/26/2007 10:50 AM >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.8/1154 - Release Date: > 11/27/2007 11:40 AM > > _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. 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