[PLUG] http://badvista.fsf.org

2007-04-18 Thread manoj mahajan
Interesting site, please have a look http://badvista.fsf.org Thanks, -- Have a nice day! -- `` Manoj S. Mahajan MCSE 2003+Security+Messaging, MCSA 2003+Security+Messaging & RHCE M: 9423022370 `

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu LTS 6.06 Required.

2007-04-18 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/19/07, Desi Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/19/07, A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Can anyone lend me Ubuntu LTS 6.06? > Pl contact me offline on my id. > > Thanks. > ~A. > Unless there is a specific reason (e.g Long Term Support offered by 6.0.6) I suggest you wait

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu LTS 6.06 Required.

2007-04-18 Thread Desi Penguin
On 4/19/07, A G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, Can anyone lend me Ubuntu LTS 6.06? Pl contact me offline on my id. Thanks. ~A. Unless there is a specific reason (e.g Long Term Support offered by 6.0.6) I suggest you wait just a day or two (April 19th to be precise, possibly South Africa

Re: [PLUG] Booting Problem in Mepis: Distribution selection

2007-04-18 Thread Desi Penguin
Even if I try it, I may not switch to kubuntu because: 1. Mandriva is **Mandriva Linux** 2. Ubuntu is based on GNU?Linux :-) Jokes apart, but if you mean whether (k)ubuntu distributes non-gnu codecs etc, then answer is yes, it does. -DP -- On the internet, no one knows you are a penguin Che

Re: [PLUG] Booting Problem in Mepis: Distribution selection

2007-04-18 Thread Desi Penguin
> Had I got ubuntu CD with me, I might have tried it with Laptop. But > the ubuntu I saw last time did not install KMail which is my favourite > of few years. You need Kubuntu for that. Kubuntu is Ubuntu with KDE. Incidentally, KMail is favourite with me as well. I have used it with Mandriva

[PLUG] Ubuntu LTS 6.06 Required.

2007-04-18 Thread A G
Hi All, Can anyone lend me Ubuntu LTS 6.06? Pl contact me offline on my id. Thanks. ~A. ___ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ -- __

[PLUG] Requirment

2007-04-18 Thread suhel shaikh
hello, i m in need of linux engineer who can trouble shoot in linux and solve the problems. either call basis or full time engineer. please contact on address given below: Pavan Computers India Pvt.Ltd. A-2 Snehal Classic, Opp Bhujal Bhawan, Near Agriculture College, Shivajinagar, Pune:411005

Re: [PLUG] Booting Problem in Mepis: Distribution selection

2007-04-18 Thread
You need Kubuntu for that. Kubuntu is Ubuntu with KDE. Incidentally, KMail is favourite with me as well. I have used it with Mandriva, SuSe and also with Mepis. If you need, I do have Kubuntu CD and can make a copy. Even if I try it, I may not switch to kubuntu because: 1. Mandriva is **Mand

Re: [PLUG] Booting Problem in Mepis: Distribution selection

2007-04-18 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/18/07, ॐ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Basically there is not much point in switching distributions but amount of *specific* help you get may vary depending on userbase in the vicinity (I mean LUG) for distribution of you choice. So i can only offer generic advice based on general practices b

Re: [PLUG] Booting Problem in Mepis: Distribution selection

2007-04-18 Thread Vikas Garud
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:11, ॐ wrote: > Basically there is not much point in switching distributions but > amount of *specific* help you get may vary depending on userbase in > the vicinity (I mean LUG) for distribution of you choice. I agree. Fortunately, with internet, the userbase that ca

Re: [PLUG] Booting Problem in Mepis: Distribution selection

2007-04-18 Thread
Basically there is not much point in switching distributions but amount of *specific* help you get may vary depending on userbase in the vicinity (I mean LUG) for distribution of you choice. So i can only offer generic advice based on general practices because I understand little of deb based sys

Re: [PLUG] Booting Problem in Mepis: Distribution selection

2007-04-18 Thread Vikas Garud
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:53, ॐ wrote: > Out of curiosity I checked Mepis.org. I have been using Mandriva SNIP I am basically a computer user, not connected with programmeing, development, IT etc. With viruses and other threats and costs issues I looked into Linux some 7/8 years back and l

Re: [PLUG] Booting Problem in Mepis

2007-04-18 Thread
That script needs you install lot of things like gcc and other packages which may not be needed otherwise. In my case it asked me to install 4-5 more packages which I did not need for any other reason. So I scratched my head and gave up on that script. Then, i specifically started looking for mi

Re: [PLUG] Booting Problem in Mepis

2007-04-18 Thread Vikas Garud
Please see in-line On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:04, ॐ wrote: > I do not exactly know where to start looking for problems. Till I > can make better suggestion than this, /var/log/messages would be a > good place to start to fix your login problems. I looked into /var/log/messages. But couldn'

Re: [PLUG] LILO

2007-04-18 Thread
How do you achieve this under FC6 and Mandriva 2007 reliably, i.e. the layouts only changing when you want to change them, and not automagically? Nothing happens automatically unless there is a problem that needs to be fixed (automagically) & If there is nothing else to be fixed, it time to fix

[PLUG] boot floopy creation

2007-04-18 Thread nikhil shinde
boot floopy creation i have redhat linux enterprise edition on my computer with windows Xp but while making a linux boot floopy, mounting minix file system it gives error plz tell me method to make boot floopy (other than mkbootdisk kernel version) and about mounting minix boot disk in floopy

Re: [PLUG] LILO

2007-04-18 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/18/07, ॐ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mandiva was the distribution, known to me atleast, loyal to LILO, till now, but now I find Manriva 2007 x86_64 installs GRUB by default. I like GRUB. My initial experience with LILO (circa 2002, PCQLinux 7?) was not that good. Never had problems with

Re: [PLUG] [Commercial] - Linux Firewall Configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/18/07, Neeraj Bezalwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- What, the firewall got your message? -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailm