[CentOS] Centos on EeePC 1000H

2008-09-21 Thread Peter Duffy
Hi, Just wondering if anyone else was trying to get Centos 5.2 onto an EeePC 1000H? My EeePC came with XP, and I planned to put Centos on it in a dual-boot config. I've been struggling with this for a few evenings now, with some success (the wired ethernet is atl1e (gigabit rather than 10/100) -

Re: [CentOS] Centos on EeePC 1000H

2008-09-21 Thread Peter Duffy
In my efforts to get the sound hardware working, I eventually decided to try the latest vanilla kernel (2.6.27-rc6). I had a bit of a battle to get it to work (it kept detecting the SATA disk as standard IDE, so blocking the SATA drivers, and making the system run like a dog: I finally fixed this b

Re: [CentOS] Hello everybody

2015-08-31 Thread Peter Duffy
On what topic specifically do you need advice? On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 11:24 +0800, Martin Zhou wrote: > * Hi, I am Martin, coming from the east of china, is a novice for > Linux. Kindly give me your advice. Thanks. > > ___ > CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-24 Thread Peter Duffy
On Sat, 2016-01-23 at 20:27 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 20:05:02 -0500 > Mark LaPierre wrote: > > > The main reason I'm still using, nearly obsolete, CentOS 6 is because I > > don't want to have to deal with Gnome 3. > > Install Mate on Centos 7 and you never have to touch Gnome

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-24 Thread Peter Duffy
On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 12:01 -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Well, there is Linux distribution which is systemd-free. And that > distribution I predict will live for decently long time. It is "Devuan" - > a fork of Debian, stripped off systemd and friends... well, I should have > said: composed witho

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-26 Thread Peter Duffy
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 08:05 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Peter Duffy said: > > The thing which always gets me about systemd is not the thing itself, > > but the way it was rolled out. When I first installed Red Hat 7, if a > > window had appeared telling

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-26 Thread Peter Duffy
On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 16:53 +, Richard Mann wrote: > > > > Complaining on the CentOS list is probably not that productive, though. > > > > +1. To be constructive, the criticism would need to be done ELSEWHERE. On > this list, it is just whining. It's not complaining. It's discussion.

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-26 Thread Peter Duffy
On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 11:57 +, John Hodrien wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jan 2016, Peter Duffy wrote: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd#Why_Debian_should_default_to_systemd > Might be more convincing if they stuck to reasoned argument, rather than propaganda.

Re: [CentOS] Upping my game on web work

2018-11-21 Thread Peter Duffy
The only web editor out of which I've ever got any mileage at all was bluegriffon - but the only time I've tried it was about 5 years ago, when it was both fully free and quite unstable (it was undergoing a lot of development work.) It's not fully free now, and it remains to be seen how stable