Re: [CentOS] Xen3.3 rpm for 32Bit?

2010-10-10 Thread mattias
Try Yum install xen -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Dirk H. Schulz Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 2:16 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Xen3.3 rpm for 32Bit? Hi folks, I would like to test Xen3.3 on CentOS

[CentOS] Qemu network slow

2010-10-10 Thread mattias
just me who have slow network with qemu without hardware virtualization ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-10 Thread Christopher Chan
Les Mikesell wrote: > On 10/9/10 2:41 PM, John Hinton wrote: >> Aside from this, Microsoft seems to love to make changes that break >> other vendor's software. I can't imagine the frustrations they must feel >> living in this world. WordPerfect, Adobe and just about everyone has had >> problems due

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-10 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 10/10/10 10:16 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > > Go OpenSolaris then. Also OpenOffice and maybe LibreOffice can open docx > files...not sure about those from MSO 2010 though... Except OpenSolaris has already been killed by Oracle. There is a fork called Illumos, though. Regards, Ben signa

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-10 Thread Christopher Chan
Ben McGinnes wrote: > On 10/10/10 10:16 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: >> Go OpenSolaris then. Also OpenOffice and maybe LibreOffice can open docx >> files...not sure about those from MSO 2010 though... > > Except OpenSolaris has already been killed by Oracle. There is a fork > called Illumos, thou

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-10 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 10/10/10 11:31 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > > /me shrugs. Yeah, maybe I better start saying Illumos and yelling use > OpenIndiana, a distro which uses Illumos. It'll only be an option for x86/x86-64 and with the move to using Fujitsu UltraSPARC chips that contain patented technology which ca

[CentOS] should i (theoretically) be able to boot a "git clone"d kernel on 5.5?

2010-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
toward the end of a class on friday, just for fun, i showed the students how to install git, clone the latest kernel source, and build and install a new kernel. since it was getting close to end of day, i wanted to keep it simple and directed them to just "make defconfig" to see what would happ

Re: [CentOS] should i (theoretically) be able to boot a "git clone"d kernel on 5.5?

2010-10-10 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >  toward the end of a class on friday, just for fun, i showed the > students how to install git, clone the latest kernel source, and build > and install a new kernel.  since it was getting close to end of day, i > wanted to keep it simple

Re: [CentOS] should i (theoretically) be able to boot a "git clone"d kernel on 5.5?

2010-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: > You can find the answer here :-) > > http://blog.toracat.org/2010/03/want-a-custom-kernel-on-centos-noo-really/ that's it? enabling deprecated sysfs? cool, i'll check that later and report back, thanks. rday -- =

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 68, Issue 4

2010-10-10 Thread centos-announce-request
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[CentOS] *** OFF LIST *** Was: Re: should i (theoretically) be able to boot a "git clone"d kernel on 5.5?

2010-10-10 Thread Ned Slider
On 10/10/10 16:09, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > You can find the answer here :-) > > http://blog.toracat.org/2010/03/want-a-custom-kernel-on-centos-noo-really/ > > Akemi Quoted from the above link: As always, Alan and Ned engaged their brains and we tried several things to find a solution. We were

Re: [CentOS] *** OFF LIST *** Was: Re: should i (theoretically) be able to boot a "git clone"d kernel on 5.5?

2010-10-10 Thread Ned Slider
On 10/10/10 17:05, Ned Slider wrote: > On 10/10/10 16:09, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> You can find the answer here :-) >> >> http://blog.toracat.org/2010/03/want-a-custom-kernel-on-centos-noo-really/ >> >> Akemi > > > Quoted from the above link: > > As always, Alan and Ned engaged their brains and

Re: [CentOS] *** OFF LIST *** Was: Re: should i (theoretically) be able to boot a "git clone"d kernel on 5.5?

2010-10-10 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Ned Slider wrote: > On 10/10/10 17:05, Ned Slider wrote: >> On 10/10/10 16:09, Akemi Yagi wrote: >>> http://blog.toracat.org/2010/03/want-a-custom-kernel-on-centos-noo-really/ >> Just thought I'd mention, although not grammatically incorrect, the >> phrase is

Re: [CentOS] *** OFF LIST *** Was: Re: should i (theoretically) be able to boot a "git clone"d kernel on 5.5?

2010-10-10 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 05:05:35PM +0100, Ned Slider wrote: > On 10/10/10 16:09, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > As always, Alan and Ned engaged their brains and we tried several things > to find a solution. We were not going anywhere when vanecka posted a fix > in this forum thread. > > Just thought I'd

Re: [CentOS] should i (theoretically) be able to boot a "git clone"d kernel on 5.5?

2010-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: > You can find the answer here :-) > > http://blog.toracat.org/2010/03/want-a-custom-kernel-on-centos-noo-really/ > > Akemi and that did it, thanks. so now i'm curious -- do you know what specifically requires the deprecated sysfs format during boot?

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 potential release date???

2010-10-10 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:51:39 -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: [] Redhat does not discuss release dates [] Well, the beta is up : http://www.redhat.com/rhel/beta/ so the corporate experience on this list may be able now to make an educated guess (still an unofficial guess,

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 potential release date???

2010-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, BeartoothHOS wrote: > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:51:39 -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: > [] > Redhat does not discuss release dates [] > > Well, the beta is up : > > http://www.redhat.com/rhel/beta/ that is already the *second* beta of RHEL 6, so it's not rea

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 potential release date???

2010-10-10 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 07:08:30PM +, BeartoothHOS wrote: > > Well, the beta is up : > > http://www.redhat.com/rhel/beta/ It's been up for many months; in fact this is the second beta cut. > so the corporate experience on this list may be able now to make an > educated

[CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
yes, i've read the online docs and followed a link or two to find a simple way to do this, such as: http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/SystemTapOnCentOS so, these days, is that the canonical way to download source rpms? now, note that i'm not arguing about whether this is a good idea. in my

[CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so, these days, is that the canonical way to download source rpms? I am substantially certain we have a wiki article on mirroring, and certainly I've written about mirroring over and over again from many approaches [my most recent blog post, aggre

[CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, R P Herrold wrote: > WHAT? you don't want to handle that load RIGHT NOT and for s/OT/OW/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:56 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so, is that reasonable? to just manually add an extra repo file > according to that link above (which appears to work perfectly well). In my opinion, in most cases there is no particularly good reason to bother compiling a source rpm

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:56 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so they can examine the source of some packages. is the approach i'm > suggesting reasonable? thanks. > > rday --- All on Debian ? John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 05:56:47PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > my plan is to install yum-utils to get yumdownloader, add the repo > file suggested above, then have students: Are these students paying for whatever training you are supplying?

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:56 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > so, is that reasonable? to just manually add an extra repo file > > according to that link above (which appears to work perfectly > > well). > > In my opinion, in most cases there is no partic

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 05:56:47PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > my plan is to install yum-utils to get yumdownloader, add the repo > > file suggested above, then have students: > > Are these students paying for whatever training you

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread Frank Cox
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 18:58 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > but it's a little high-handed to not > explain how to do something because you've decided it's not something > you want *others* to know. There is very little to explain, if all you want to do is examine the source. Install rpmdevtools

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread ken
Before yum and when I used to have time for it, I compiled from source everything on my machine. It wasn't that big of a deal. Just took some time. The pay-off was significant in performance and speed... reason being that, if you configure gcc for your particular cpu, the code is able to take ad

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:36 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 18:58 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > but it's a little high-handed to not > > explain how to do something because you've decided it's not something > > you want *others* to know. > > There is very little to explain, i

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread Shaun Jones
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:23 PM, JohnS wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:36 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 18:58 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > but it's a little high-handed to not > > > explain how to do something because you've decided it's not something > > > you wan

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shaun Jones wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:23 PM, JohnS wrote: > >> Warning: No matches found for: rpmdevtools >> No Matches found >> >> John >> Rpmdevtools for CentOS is available from EPEL. http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Reposi

[CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, JohnS wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:36 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: >> There is very little to explain, if all you want to do is examine the >> source. >> >> Install rpmdevtools. Run rpmdev-setuptree > Warning: No matches found for: rpmdevtools > No Matches found As I recal

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 21:35 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, JohnS wrote: > > > On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:36 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > > >> There is very little to explain, if all you want to do is examine the > >> source. > >> > >> Install rpmdevtools. Run rpmdev-setuptree > >

Re: [CentOS] ldif invalid per syntax

2010-10-10 Thread Tim Dunphy
someone reminded me that i was missing the posix account information I needed i LDAP. I have added the corresponding posix accounts in LDAP I wish to use: 12 uid=bluethundr,ou=summitnjops,ou=staff,dc=summitnjhome,dc=com ou: summitnjops ou: staff cn: Tim objectClass: top objectClass: organization

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> More people should be doing this kind of stuff.  The world needs more > open source developers.  Looking at existing code is a great tool for > learning. +1 As Karanbir put it in his interview in Distrowatch a few months ago, CentOS is not only great as a stable and predictable server distrib,

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 11/10/10 10:44 AM, ken wrote: > > Alternatively, you could also check out Slackware. In my opinion Slackware is still the best distribution for actually learning about GNU/Linux. I'm a little biased, though, I've been running it since 4.0 (and had accounts on other systems running it prior t

Re: [CentOS] ldif invalid per syntax

2010-10-10 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I have added the corresponding posix accounts in LDAP I wish to use: Here is a LDIF snippet that works for users authenticated via LDAP: dn: uid=myuser,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com objectClass: person objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount objectCl

[CentOS] installing 32 bit vlc on Centos 5.5??

2010-10-10 Thread Dave Stevens
I'm in yum dependency hell using epel, rpmforge and rpmfusion repos to install vlc on 32 bit Centos 5.5. Anyone have a better idea? Doesn't really have to be vlc I just want to be able to play a dvd and Movie Player complains about missing plugins without saying what they are. Dave -- "It

Re: [CentOS] installing 32 bit vlc on Centos 5.5??

2010-10-10 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:36:19PM -0700, Dave Stevens wrote: > I'm in yum dependency hell using epel, rpmforge and rpmfusion repos to > install vlc on 32 bit Centos 5.5. Anyone have a better idea? Doesn't > really have to be vlc I just want to be able to play a dvd and Movie > Player complai

Re: [CentOS] installing 32 bit vlc on Centos 5.5??

2010-10-10 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Scott Robbins : > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:36:19PM -0700, Dave Stevens wrote: >> I'm in yum dependency hell using epel, rpmforge and rpmfusion repos to >> install vlc on 32 bit Centos 5.5. Anyone have a better idea? Doesn't >> really have to be vlc I just want to be able to play a dvd an

Re: [CentOS] installing 32 bit vlc on Centos 5.5??

2010-10-10 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:58:51PM -0700, Dave Stevens wrote: > Quoting Scott Robbins : > >>> >> Is movieplayer mplayer? > > I don't think so I think it's Totem Totem often seems to have problems, even in more up to date distributions such as Fedora and Ubuntu. If that's the case, it's worth tr