[CentOS] Desktop Choice Centos 4/Centos 5 or Fedora 9

2008-10-30 Thread vandaman2002-rt
I have a choice of CentOS 4/5 and Fedora 9 on a laptop. I have not use CentOS 5 on a desktop but have used CentOS 4 and Fedora 9. I found the Fedora Gnome not as appealing as the CentOS 4 clearlooks. Any opinions from someone who has used CentOS 4/5 and Fedora? I'm not a KDE fan so KDE users ne

[CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-02 Thread vandaman2002-rt
OT Mailing List Spam This might be slightly off-topic but as the source of spam is probably a spammer getting emails from this list, I reported him and his service provider should cut off his/her ugly head. I got an email of the classic 419 scam from a "El Amir Assadallah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. T

Re: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread vandaman2002-rt
Griesbach, Lutz wrote: > Ok, i only tried "upgrade" once manually to get another box from centos 4..4 > to a 4.5 > ( and I ran into this http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2557 ) and thought, > the > difference between update and upgrade is like the debian based "apt-get > upgrade" > and "ap

[CentOS] For newcomers to the mailing list.

2008-10-02 Thread vandaman2002-rt
1. Don't top post. 2. Don't hijack another thread with new unrelated info. 3. Trim your responses. 4. Turn off html in your mail client. 5. Try and do some basic google searches on your problem. Quoted from: http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16

Re: AW: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread vandaman2002-rt
Griesbach, Lutz wrote: > Oh, c'mon! > If I want to talk about professional honor, I'd prefer a different list. > So, I thought it might be possible to stick in the release during nightly > updates, > but your educational answer doesn't help much. Get out of your high horse. You are running a s

Re: [CentOS] Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"

2008-10-02 Thread vandaman2002-rt
Griesbach, Lutz wrote: > Hy there, > > i have a centos (4.?) Box with nightly yum update enabled. > Last night, it did an upgrade to 4.7 leading to several > problem i.e. not respawning the dhcrelay, which is needed on > this box. > > Can I control the update policy not to upgrade to new > rele

Re: [CentOS] Xboard rpm for CentOS 4 SOLVED

2008-10-02 Thread vandaman2002-rt
Karanbir Singh wrote: > the latest version of xboard is now also in > kbs-centos-extras-testing > for centos-5 ( based on the fedora10 rpm ) > Thanks. That would be handy for when I upgrade to CentOS 5 as CentOS 4 is showing its age. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Xboard rpm for CentOS 4 SOLVED

2008-10-01 Thread vandaman2002-rt
Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All those would be available in CentOS 5 >:) > If you still can find xboard for Fedora 3/4 somewhere - that should be > rebuildable. Thanks I found the Fedora 4 SRPM and its now rebuilding. ___ CentOS m

Re: [CentOS] OT: C++ Newbie "Hello World" problem SOLVED

2008-10-01 Thread vandaman2002-rt
Lanny Marcus wrote: > Note: This began in the thread "[CentOS] Probably a bad setup but > which one?" but I don't want to hijack that thread. "tech" began with > a similar problem, with the Perl "Hello World" script. Oh no not another n00b. n00bs should probably have to go to boot camp or :- 1.

Re: [CentOS] Xboard rpm for CentOS 4

2008-10-01 Thread vandaman2002-rt
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > There is an RPM for Fedora Cors 9. > http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/devel/src/xboard-4.2.7-17.fc9.src.html > > You can try to rebuild it from the source RPM yourself. > > See here for help on how to do this: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM > > Let

[CentOS] Xboard rpm for CentOS 4

2008-10-01 Thread vandaman2002-rt
Has anyone built an rpm for xboard for CentOS 4? I looked in the EPEL repo, KBS repo and rpmforge but none exist. The KBS repo has gnuchess in testing but what good is gnuchess without xboard? As usual the fedora SRPM for Fedora 6 and Fedora 9 cannot build on CentOS 4- they might build on Cent