Re: risk-aversion and the IT market

2003-09-22 Thread linux-il
Gabor Szabo wrote: In relation to our previous discussion about the use of FOSS[1] in Israel, why not approach it from the basic assumption that IT managers are risk averters. Just a few days ago there was a quote of a guy from CA(?) saying that Israelis are pragmatists and will usually adopt new t

Re: Propaganda Point (was: Re: linux support companies in Israel)

2003-09-22 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Tzafrir Cohen wrote on 2003-09-22: > Not only for NT. Lately support has been withdrawn for win95 and win98. > > The support contracts from RH and SuSE for their "enterprise" products > is for 5-6 years. More than the time since the launch of both win95 and > winnt. > Not since the launch of win95

Re: risk-aversion and the IT market

2003-09-22 Thread Gil Freund
Gabor Szabo wrote: In relation to our previous discussion about the use of FOSS[1] in Israel, why not approach it from the basic assumption that IT managers are risk averters. They would prefer to buy bad but known products than other, less know (or less understood) products even if those promise b

Re: which distribution?

2003-09-22 Thread dittigas
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 12:28, Shlomo Yona wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Uri Sharf wrote: > > > AFAIK SuSE is defiantly the easiest and most mature of the desktop > > variants. It's only available for purchase, or a some what technical > > online install from SuSE's site. > > > > I would go for th

Shana Tova :)

2003-09-22 Thread Amit Roseberger
Hi Everyone. I wish you all a Happy New Year (Shana Tova). May all your wishes come true (just be careful what you wish for... ;) ) Amit. <>

Re: which distribution?

2003-09-22 Thread dittigas
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 12:28, Shlomo Yona wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Uri Sharf wrote: > > > AFAIK SuSE is defiantly the easiest and most mature of the desktop > > variants. It's only available for purchase, or a some what technical > > online install from SuSE's site. > > > > I would go for th

Re: which distribution?

2003-09-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:28:21PM +0300, Shlomo Yona wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Uri Sharf wrote: > > > AFAIK SuSE is defiantly the easiest and most mature of the desktop > > variants. It's only available for purchase, or a some what technical > > online install from SuSE's site. After having

Re: Shana Tova :)

2003-09-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Amit Roseberger wrote: > Hi Everyone. > I wish you all a Happy New Year (Shana Tova). > May all your wishes come true (just be careful what you wish for... ;) ) > > Amit. > > Let me second that: happy new year for all. Regards, Shlomi Fish

RE: A new product line from Culmus project ;-)

2003-09-22 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Maxim Iorsh wrote on 2003-09-21: > Hello! > > 2. The main package is a general-purpose one, and it appears in some > distributions quite unrelated specifically to the Hebrew language or Israeli > public, and consequently wastes some precious space on shipped CDs. Therefore I > try not to blow it.

RE: Propaganda Point (was: Re: linux support companies in Israel)

2003-09-22 Thread Tal, Shachar
Tzafir, I beg to differ. Win95 was launched in... errr... '95. Same as NT4 (very early '96 if I am not mistaken). Clearly this 7-8 year period is longer than RedHat's / SuSE's support period. Shachar Tal Verint Systems -Original Message- From: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

Re: Shana Tova :)

2003-09-22 Thread Ariel Biener
On Monday 22 September 2003 12:02, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Amit Roseberger wrote: > > Hi Everyone. > > I wish you all a Happy New Year (Shana Tova). > > May all your wishes come true (just be careful what you wish for... ;) ) > > > > Amit. > > Let me second that: happy new year fo

Re: Shana Tova :)

2003-09-22 Thread Amit Roseberger
Thx Ariel. Actually, I hope it'll not insult anyone but... The Linux-il address book entry was (I fixed it ASA this "Fashla" happened) annoyingly similar to one of my friends entries... So when my Mail Client's damn auto completion feature shows me the list of possible completions I usually choo

RE: A new product line from Culmus project ;-)

2003-09-22 Thread Maxim Iorsh
Hello! You can consult the faq at the site - it gives precise instructions; or use your favorite font installer (Gnome and Kde each have one). Maxim. On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > I'd like to use them on my home computer but I'm quite ignorant of > what to do with the afm/pfa f

Re: Shana Tova :)

2003-09-22 Thread Boaz Rymland
and may the described prophecy come true: check out the paragraph before the end - a prophecy that within 1-1.5 years M$ will bring forth their products (that are silently being ported these days...) to the Linux OS. http://computers.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=item&path=4&id=443163 A VERY "sha

DMZ Variant

2003-09-22 Thread landau_alex
Hi all! I have a linux box with 2 network interfaces: external (connected to the Internet) and internal (connected to my LAN). The box acts as a firewall, I'm also doing NAT. I have several ports open on the box itself and have set up port forwarding to a few machines on the LAN. I want any connec

Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-22 Thread linux-il
I have the great pleasure to help someone try Linux and am not sure which distro will demo to him Linux capabilities for his needs better. That guy is a native English speaker (so I suppose an English interface would suite hime better) but his job is technical writing and journalism in Hebrew, so h

Re: Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-22 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
i thought of kanoppix ? but it saddly down becouse software laws problems http://www.knoppix.org/ but maybe you can try look for other ftp to get kanoppix from. Shana Tova -- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-4-6991122 Fa

Re: Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-22 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Ben-Nes Michael wrote on 2003-09-22: > i thought of kanoppix ? > > but it saddly down becouse software laws problems > > http://www.knoppix.org/ > You can stil enter the original site through the "KNOPPIX" link in the small text. It's not closed down yet but it participates in an online demonstar

Re: Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-22 Thread Oleg Kobets
Or you can use Kazit instead. It's real name is KnoppixKDE. Here is a direct link: ftp://ftp.iglu.org.il/pub/KDE/stable/3.1/contrib/cdimages/ Oleg. - Original Message - From: "Ben-Nes Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22,

Re: Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-22 Thread linux-il
What are its advantages over Kinneret or Knoppix? As far as I know it, it's just a Knoppix with Israel as a default locale, which is not an advantage over the "base" Knoppix (as I said, the guy is a native English speaker, so an English interface might be actually better for him) Cheers, --Amos

Re: which ISO?

2003-09-22 Thread Micha Feigin
You need the i386 packages, but your better of getting the installation cd (at list #1 non-us). If the computer you are installing on isn't connected to a fast Internet connection, the one you are downloading to is, and you plan to stick with the stable distribution, you probably should also downlo

Re: Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-22 Thread dittigas
Kineret seem to offer a bit more, including an Internet Connection Wizard with a pool of Israeli ISPs not available in Knoppix. Also, you might want to consider other alternatives. Morphix for example is a modular Live CD distro that lets you have a CD with different defaults (KDE, GNOME, XFC etc.

Printer help (Phaser 3110)

2003-09-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, I bought (a while back) a Xerox Phaser 3110 cheap no brains Laser printer. Or so I thought. When buying it in the store, the printer was clearly marked as "supporting Linux". I brought it home to my Debian Sid machine, and installed the CUPS driver from the CD. Everything worked fine.

Re: Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-22 Thread shlomi
Oleg Kobets wrote: > Or you can use Kazit instead. It's real name is KnoppixKDE. > > Here is a direct link: > ftp://ftp.iglu.org.il/pub/KDE/stable/3.1/contrib/cdimages/ > > Oleg. > hi, The old KnopopixKDE is very outdated and has a lot of fine programs missing. i'm working on creating a new "Ka

Re: Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:46:32PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What are its advantages over Kinneret or Knoppix? > > As far as I know it, it's just a Knoppix with Israel as a default locale, > which is not an advantage over the "base" Knoppix (as I said, the guy is a > native English speaker

Re: Printer help (Phaser 3110) - solved

2003-09-22 Thread Shachar Shemesh
WOW, what a support forum! My printer has been non-working in Linux for MONTHS! I post a question to this forum, and within an hour and a half, I have an answer! Thanks, guys, you are the best. Enabling debug logs by changing "LogLevel" in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, I could get a detailed output of

Re: Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-22 Thread shlomi
shlomi wrote: > The old KnopopixKDE is very outdated and has a lot of fine programs > missing. i'm working on creating a new "Kazit" (might be called > differently) based on Knoppix3.2-5/9/2003. > it will include OO1.1 and support in "hebrew enabled" mode. Knoppix 3.3 was released today .. gr

Re: Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-22 Thread linux-il
Thanks for all the replies and descriptions. I think I'll recommand Knoppix: 1. It's based on KDE, which already has good Hebrew support as it is today (as opposed to Gnoppix, which I dunno how's its Hebrew support). 2. Its edges are smoother than what was said about Kazit and friends. 3. Its Eng

Re: Which live-CD should I recommand to a newbie evaluator

2003-09-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:00:03AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for all the replies and descriptions. > > I think I'll recommand Knoppix: > > 1. It's based on KDE, which already has good Hebrew support as it is today > (as opposed to Gnoppix, which I dunno how's its Hebrew support).

Re: which ISO?

2003-09-22 Thread Shlomo Yona
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Lior Kaplan wrote: > for example: > http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.fi.debian.org/debian-cd/3.0_r1/i386/ > > Download the NONUS version of disc #1. What does NONUS stand for? What about the other ISO files there? Thanks. -- Shlomo Yona [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cs.haif