Re: Debian vs... ? (was RE: powerbook and debian)

2004-01-22 Thread James Horton
Hello Stephanie, Here are some ideas you might use. Debian Testing, can use a 2.6.x kernel, today. I do not believe, but I'm not certain, that RH does not TODAY have 2.6.x kernels available. What's important about 2.6.x ? a. Security. Russell Coker's work on the NSA's SElinux code is

Re: Debian vs... ? (was RE: powerbook and debian)

2004-01-22 Thread James Horton
Hello Stephanie, Here are some ideas you might use. Debian Testing, can use a 2.6.x kernel, today. I do not believe, but I'm not certain, that RH does not TODAY have 2.6.x kernels available. What's important about 2.6.x ? a. Security. Russell Coker's work on the NSA's SElinux code is g

Embedded Mail Server

2004-01-14 Thread James Horton
Hello Laptop developers, Has anyone seen a lightweight (portable or embedded) mail sever running postfix? (Sendmail if that's all that is available would work). It'd have to have ethernet, and at least 500MB of storage. Solid state storage(compact flash) would be keen. A 2.6.x linux kernel would

Embedded Mail Server

2004-01-14 Thread James Horton
Hello Laptop developers, Has anyone seen a lightweight (portable or embedded) mail sever running postfix? (Sendmail if that's all that is available would work). It'd have to have ethernet, and at least 500MB of storage. Solid state storage(compact flash) would be keen. A 2.6.x linux kernel would

Re: 2.6.0 Kernel, Lost Keyboard and Mouse

2003-12-29 Thread James Horton
Andy Neillans wrote: Hardware: NEC Versa M300 Laptop Release: Woody, upgraded to Testing. 2.6.0 stable source from www.kernel.org .config and kern.log attached. Compiled 'the Debian way', using make-kpkg. Stock 2.2.5 works normally. kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 works normally. (Installed via a

Re: 2.6.0 Kernel, Lost Keyboard and Mouse

2003-12-29 Thread James Horton
Andy Neillans wrote: Hardware: NEC Versa M300 Laptop Release: Woody, upgraded to Testing. 2.6.0 stable source from www.kernel.org .config and kern.log attached. Compiled 'the Debian way', using make-kpkg. Stock 2.2.5 works normally. kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 works normally. (Installed via apt

Audio on Prostar 8880

2003-12-17 Thread James Horton
Hello, I running a 2.4.21 kernel with Debian(woody) Stable. I thought I correctly selected audio support in before building out the kernel. This portable has just about everything but USB 2.0 I could easily have conflict either in the audio of video packages I have "apt-get" installed. I thi

Audio on Prostar 8880

2003-12-17 Thread James Horton
Hello, I running a 2.4.21 kernel with Debian(woody) Stable. I thought I correctly selected audio support in before building out the kernel. This portable has just about everything but USB 2.0 I could easily have conflict either in the audio of video packages I have "apt-get" installed. I think