Re: OpenBSD speed on desktops

2007-02-18 Thread Jon Drews
On 2/17/07, R. Fumione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I am using OpenBSD on server since few years now, and I am very happy with it's easy maintenance and it's stability. I want to try on desktop, and I am having trouble. Everything is much slower than existing Linux system. For example, Fir

Re: CUPS

2007-02-24 Thread Jon Drews
On 2/24/07, Tang Tse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Thanks for your answear. So best i use linux for a printer server? Hello Tang: You can still get printing to work on OpenBSD. Suppose your printer is an HP 600 Deskjet, you would do the following: 1) Go to http://openprinting.org/printer_li

gmplayer locks up Fvwm

2007-06-03 Thread Jon Drews
OpenBSD 4.1 GENERIC#0 i386 Hi: Don't know if any one else experienced this. When gmplayer is activated from Fvwm's menu then it locks up fvwm. To reproduce: 1) Put: +"GMplayer" Exec exec gmplayer in the RootMenu section, of the .fvwmrc 2) Restart Fvwm 3) Click on G

Re: User mount cdrom?

2007-06-09 Thread Jon Drews
On 6/9/07, Timothy Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm having great difficulty allowing my users to mount the cdrom. I've looked in the faq and both fstab and mount manpages, but still can't find it! I think the GNU tools allow: Hello Tim: I got user mount of the CDROM to work as fol

Re: Gnumeric on 3.6

2005-06-13 Thread Jon Drews
On 6/13/05, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The gnumeric developers assert that gnumeric is 'stable' > ie rarely crashes. Yet my experience is that gnumeric crashes > *frequently* while attempting to create pdf files. Does anyone > else running gnumeric on 3.6 or 3.7 experience gnumeric

Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?

2005-06-13 Thread Jon Drews
On 6/13/05, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can say from experience that, running with KDE, neither Kspread nor Gnumeric > on OpenBSD 3.6 are useable (by me, at least) for hard copy of even simple > spreadsheets. > > I am beginning to think *very* seriously about using a Windows comput

Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?

2005-06-14 Thread Jon Drews
On 6/13/05, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. Note that my problem is not printing pdf files, it is creating pdf files > from within gnumeric. > OK, these are the dependencies I have for Gnumerics printing: libgnomeprintui-2.6.2 gtksourceview-1.0.1 libgnomeprint-2.6.2 d

Re: External, USB hard drives

2005-06-24 Thread Jon Drews
On 6/23/05, Steven Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to attach an external USB hard drive to my 3.7 machine so > that I can back various files on a scheduled basis. Not having used a > USB drive before thought I would ask here about them first. I am using a Seagate 80 GB USB 2.0 hard

Re: Tutorial

2005-06-27 Thread Jon Drews
On 6/28/05, Matt Juszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tried to install OpenBSD but kept getting errors that it couldn't create > the disklabel. Maybe I was doing something wrong. Is there a nice > tutorial to install it? The book "Absolute OpenBSD" has a very detailed chapter on installation,

Re: Create my own shell?

2005-07-25 Thread Jon Drews
On 7/25/05, Abel Talaversn Estevez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to create a particular but simple shell for a firewall running OpenBSD > 3.6. The idea is create a user whose shell is a very limited one. This shell > or command line interpreter (CLI) must have permissions only in

Re: Create my own shell?

2005-07-26 Thread Jon Drews
On 7/25/05, Jon Drews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/25/05, Abel Talaversn Estevez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to create a particular but simple shell for a firewall running > > OpenBSD > > 3.6. The idea is create a user whose shell is a very limited

Re: BSD PPPoA Hardware

2005-08-27 Thread Jon Drews
On 8/27/05, Simon Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/15/05, Simon Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone have any suggestions? Any advice is welcome. > > To anyone who might be reading this in the future (Hi! Do you have robots > and flying cars yet?), I've given up looking for

Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Jon Drews
On 9/12/05, Joco Salvatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > > I'd like to know if anyone can tell me a good text editor that runs under X > environment. Ted 2.17 http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ an *.rtf editor has been tested heavily on OpenBSD 3.5 and 3.6. Get the ted-2.17.src.tar.gz tarball. Y

Re: OS book

2005-05-02 Thread Jon Drews
On 5/1/05, kroty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to buy a book about Operating Systems. I Here is a link to the free download of: "Commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System" by John Lion http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/index.html It's reputed to be a very good in