RE: Why penguin?

2000-10-03 Thread Mevorach, Assaf
All the story http://www.linux.org/info/penguin.html -Original Message- From: Shimon C. Constante [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 9:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why penguin? Can anybody tell me why Linux's symbol is a penguin? why a Penguin -.url

Why penguin?

2000-10-03 Thread Shimon C. Constante
Can anybody tell me why Linux's symbol is a penguin? begin:vcard n:Constante;Shimon Cocay tel;fax:(1)(212) 208-2621 tel;home:ICQ: 12101222 tel;work:(972)(03) 753-4423 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Aduva;Intelligence adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Intelligence Team Leade

Re: is the swap being used ?

2000-10-03 Thread Dani Arbel
Hi! There is no question about RAM being superior over swap, BUT when you run out of memory (RAM + swap ) the system starts to kill processes and you don't want this to hapen. So have enough available swap, and count on the system to use it wisely (i.e. place the running processes in RAM and s

Re: RH 7.0 infested with bugs?

2000-10-03 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
SB>> No. slackware does not use rpm by default nor redhat scripts. slackware SB>> uses simple .tgz packages, and simple BSD scripts. thats how linux should SB>> be ;) That's bull. Linux should have no packages and no scripts and no slackware. If you need some software, you code it yourself or dow

the list's address

2000-10-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi This message is written to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . However, the reply-to address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The result is that if one uses "reply to all" (or equivalent) a reply will be sent to both the addresses, and thus the list will recieve it twice (as has happened with the previous message). Ho

Re: CDRW: SCSI vs. IDE

2000-10-03 Thread Gavrie Philipson
Eli Marmor wrote: > > Hi, > > I looked at the home page of cdrecord, and found warnings regarding > both of the interfaces of CDRW: IDE (that you need the SCSI emulation > for it), and SCSI (look at the rating table - it claims that SCSI for > Linux is bad and almost unusable). > > As one who n

CDRW: SCSI vs. IDE

2000-10-03 Thread Eli Marmor
Hi, I looked at the home page of cdrecord, and found warnings regarding both of the interfaces of CDRW: IDE (that you need the SCSI emulation for it), and SCSI (look at the rating table - it claims that SCSI for Linux is bad and almost unusable). As one who never used CDRW under Linux (I'm going

Re: In and out of X

2000-10-03 Thread didi
Hi Bettina Stern & Arieh Bibliowicz wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Is there any way I can log my entries and exists from X? I enter and exit my > computer using a graphical login, so .login and .logout do not work (well, > maybe .login does, but .logout surely do

Re: is the swap being used ?

2000-10-03 Thread Yaron Zabary
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, guy keren wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Dani Arbel wrote: > > > i would reccomand to make the swap at least double the RAM size. that > > system has too small swap partition. > > sorry for poking in again - i just had to dispell that mith. this 'swap > size is double RAM s

Re: DISTRIBUTION WAR!!! (Was: RH 7.0 infested with bugs?)

2000-10-03 Thread Evgeny Zemlerub
Neee Real programmers make thier own distribution: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/view/intel-2.4/index.html with their own package management system.. > wrote: > > > > SuSE RaVaLaZ 1 > > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, X wrote: > > > > > Let the flame war begin! > > > > > > X

Re: DISTRIBUTION WAR!!! (Was: RH 7.0 infested with bugs?)

2000-10-03 Thread Aviram Jenik
From: "Ely Levy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 3:14 PM Subject: Re: DISTRIBUTION WAR!!! (Was: RH 7.0 infested with bugs?) > In case some of you didnt' read the FAQ flames are not welcome in here. .. .. > any objections? Yes. Go get some sense of h

Re: DISTRIBUTION WAR!!! (Was: RH 7.0 infested with bugs?)

2000-10-03 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
wrote: > > SuSE RaVaLaZ 1 > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, X wrote: > > > Let the flame war begin! > > > > X XX wrote: > > > What you are basically saying is - USE DEBIAN !!! (* The names have been removed to protect the guilty) Real programers don't use distributions, they

Re: OT: General phylosophical thoughts about mailing lists behaviours

2000-10-03 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Nadav Har'El wrote: > However, the reason I send this message to you too is a much more mundane > reason - an issue I've raised here before but never got solved to my > satisfaction. Unlike many other mailing-lists (including all the lists I > run), in linux-il when you "Reply" to a message (usin

Re: RH 7.0 infested with bugs?

2000-10-03 Thread Sagi Bashari
No. slackware does not use rpm by default nor redhat scripts. slackware uses simple .tgz packages, and simple BSD scripts. thats how linux should be ;) On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, avishaya wrote: > Yes, sagi is right. > stay away from all x.0 of redhat versions.wait a little beat. > in a few months,it

e-mail (|| phone_number) of Amos Shapira?

2000-10-03 Thread Shaul Karl
Hello, I applied to be a Debian maintainer and am looking for another Debian developer to sign my GPG key. => I am looking for Amos Shapira to ask him to sign my key. How can I get in contact with him? I have tried to send a message to Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> but got a reply s

Testing replay to now send it to list I hope

2000-10-03 Thread Ely Levy
Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Science Fiction - Or Not ?

2000-10-03 Thread Ely Levy
I donno why you guys want to wait till next year:) I hope to finish in a 2-3 month http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~elylevy/heb Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Chen Shapira wrote: | | | > -Original Message- | > From: Oren Held [mailto:[EMAI

Re: DISTRIBUTION WAR!!! (Was: RH 7.0 infested with bugs?)

2000-10-03 Thread Ely Levy
In case some of you didnt' read the FAQ flames are not welcome in here. and latly it's really getting into annoying level. I'm sure a lot of people would agree with me. therefore I suggest that if it happen again we would make it moderated and approve the mail one by one. or remove the flaming per

Re: Mode locking in X.

2000-10-03 Thread Nimrod S. Carmi
Hey, On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > In short: use Xkb instead of Xmodmap (Xmodmap is usefulfor small > corrections, but nothing more than that). > > As a starting point, have a look at: > http://www.iglu.org.il/faq/cache/86.html > > I still haven't received any comments on that pag

Re: Mode locking in X.

2000-10-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Nimrod S. Carmi wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I have installed hebrew fonts on my X and configured right control as the > mode-change key so I could type hebrew in X-Chat and other places. > > I've used the Xmodmap file from the Hebrew howto and modified it abit for > that matt

Mode locking in X.

2000-10-03 Thread Nimrod S. Carmi
Hey everyone, I have installed hebrew fonts on my X and configured right control as the mode-change key so I could type hebrew in X-Chat and other places. I've used the Xmodmap file from the Hebrew howto and modified it abit for that matter, but I can't make the locking work and I don't wonna ke

RE: is the swap being used ?

2000-10-03 Thread Chen Shapira
> these days, however, RAM is cheap, and linux does not do that > pre-allocation (and i think neither do other modern unices), so some > people manage to run their machine without using any RAM at > all. if you I think you mean, no swap at all. Thanks, Chen. ==

OT: General phylosophical thoughts about mailing lists behaviours

2000-10-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
For some strange reason, everytime I respond to a thread, I get all further communication on that thread twice. People, please, don't blindly "reply to all" messages. It stands to reason that, if someone posted to this mailing list, this someone is also subscribed to it. It is therefor enough to

Re: is the swap being used ?

2000-10-03 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Dani Arbel wrote: > i would reccomand to make the swap at least double the RAM size. that > system has too small swap partition. sorry for poking in again - i just had to dispell that mith. this 'swap size is double RAM size' was the rule of thumb for unix administrators abo

Re: is the swap being used ?

2000-10-03 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I will agree that if the guy (not Guy, tizmo, ohh never mind) has 95MB > of free RAM, there is no reason to swap anything out. It's just that a > normal system has quite a few things loaded into memory that are never > accessed. Swapping these things

RE: DISTRIBUTION WAR!!! (Was: RH 7.0 infested with bugs?)

2000-10-03 Thread Naor Weissman
Ok people. Let's call it a day ;0 LINUX RULEZ ok. Regards, Naor Weissman RnD department BroadServe Israel +97254553183 http://www.broadserve.com -Original Message- From: Oren Held [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: ?? 03 ??? 2000 11:02? To: Shachar Shemesh Cc: linux

Re: DISTRIBUTION WAR!!! (Was: RH 7.0 infested with bugs?)

2000-10-03 Thread Oren Held
Hello SuSE RaVaLaZ 1 Cya, Oren. On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Let the flame war begin! > > Naor Weissman wrote: > > > What you are basically saying is - USE DEBIAN !!! > > > > Regards, > > Naor Weissman > > RnD department > > BroadServe Israel > > +97254553183 > > http://

In and out of X

2000-10-03 Thread Bettina Stern & Arieh Bibliowicz
Is there any way I can log my entries and exists from X? I enter and exit my computer using a graphical login, so .login and .logout do not work (well, maybe .login does, but .logout surely does not). I want to log the time I entered the server to the time I exited the server (even explicit kill,

Re: DISTRIBUTION WAR!!! (Was: RH 7.0 infested with bugs?)

2000-10-03 Thread Yosi
Shahar Wrote: >Let the flame war begin! You are right :-( . While I asked a question that I think will interest the rest of RedHat users, it seems that some people took the opportunity to enlighten us all with their wisdom of how they chose a much superior distribution, and how bad RedHat is. I