Re: Old Cpus and RedHat

2000-02-28 Thread JF Martinez
> > At 19:41 2/28/00 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > >priority IMHO. Even experienced users will assume that something > >has went wrong if there are no visual cues indicating > > experienced users will alt-pf2 to get to a prompt and run ps or > somehting to see what the heck is happening before

Minor documentation bugs.

2000-02-28 Thread Mike A. Harris
The HOWTO's with RH 6.1 contain bugs probably due to conversion problems from original SGML source: This is from the NET3-4-HOWTO 5.8 Configuring your network servers and services. 5.8.1 (TT 5.8.1.1 An example 5.8.2 (TT 5.8.2.1 An example 5.9 Other

Re: Old Cpus and RedHat

2000-02-28 Thread Chris Abbey
At 19:41 2/28/00 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: >priority IMHO. Even experienced users will assume that something >has went wrong if there are no visual cues indicating experienced users will alt-pf2 to get to a prompt and run ps or somehting to see what the heck is happening before hitting the po

Re: How to get X/Window programming from HP-UX10.20 to run on RedHat

2000-02-28 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, DANG, Muoi wrote: >I have a program running on HP-UX 10.20 with X/Windows and would like to >recompile and run on Linux, particular on RedHat. Can anyone tell me how? >I look at the system file but it only had X11R6, how about Motif1.2 or Motif >2.1. I don't see Motif libra

Re: Old Cpus and RedHat

2000-02-28 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, JF Martinez wrote: >> > If you want to keep RedHat usable by 486s you have to keep a low >> > weight GUI and rewrite in C some parts of the install. >> >> How does a long install affect the usability of the system? You only >> have to do it once! >> > >When you see a scree

Re: Old Cpus and RedHat

2000-02-28 Thread JF Martinez
> > On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 12:34:07AM +0100, JF Martinez wrote: > > If you want to keep RedHat usable by 486s you have to keep a low > > weight GUI and rewrite in C some parts of the install. > > The CPU intensive parts _ARE_ in C. RPM is just doing much much more > in its transaction set proc

Re: Old Cpus and RedHat

2000-02-28 Thread JF Martinez
> > JF Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you want to keep RedHat usable by 486s you have to keep a low > > weight GUI and rewrite in C some parts of the install. > > How does a long install affect the usability of the system? You only > have to do it once! > When you see a screen

Re: Old Cpus and RedHat

2000-02-28 Thread Alan Shutko
JF Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want to keep RedHat usable by 486s you have to keep a low > weight GUI and rewrite in C some parts of the install. How does a long install affect the usability of the system? You only have to do it once! -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In

Re: Old Cpus and RedHat

2000-02-28 Thread Matt Wilson
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 12:34:07AM +0100, JF Martinez wrote: > If you want to keep RedHat usable by 486s you have to keep a low > weight GUI and rewrite in C some parts of the install. The CPU intensive parts _ARE_ in C. RPM is just doing much much more in its transaction set processing than it

Re: Old Cpus and RedHat

2000-02-28 Thread Alan Cox
> RH 6.2 beta it spent about ten minutes in the 'Preparing to install' > screen and this was on a Cyrix 166+ who is supposed to have about > three times the horsepower of a 486 DX2 66. That would have meant 30 > minutes on a 486. Quite simply unbearable. A text mode install took about 2 hours

Re: Old Cpus and RedHat

2000-02-28 Thread JF Martinez
> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, JF Martinez wrote: > > > If RedHat pushes towards resource hungry User interfaces like > > Gnome/KDE and installations in Python who are looong (at least the > > update was) on a Cyrix 686 at 133 Mhz (rated like a 166+) it seems > > there is little reason to continue

How to get X/Window programming from HP-UX10.20 to run on RedHat

2000-02-28 Thread DANG, Muoi
Hi all, I have a program running on HP-UX 10.20 with X/Windows and would like to recompile and run on Linux, particular on RedHat. Can anyone tell me how? I look at the system file but it only had X11R6, how about Motif1.2 or Motif 2.1. I don't see Motif library on the system. How can I get Mo

Re: Old Cpus and RedHat

2000-02-28 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, JF Martinez wrote: >If RedHat pushes towards resource hungry User interfaces like >Gnome/KDE and installations in Python who are looong (at least the >update was) on a Cyrix 686 at 133 Mhz (rated like a 166+) it seems >there is little reason to continue using the -m486 fl

Re: Old Cpus and RedHat

2000-02-28 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, JF Martinez wrote: > If RedHat pushes towards resource hungry User interfaces like > Gnome/KDE and installations in Python who are looong (at least the > update was) on a Cyrix 686 at 133 Mhz (rated like a 166+) it seems > there is little reason to continue using the -m48

Keyboards and single user mode

2000-02-28 Thread JF Martinez
When you have to reboot single user mode you find that your national keyboard has not been loaded. Since RedHat mounts filesystems in single user mode I see no reason loading keytables is not part of the standard boot procedure for single mode. In addition given that if some filesystem is damag

Old Cpus and RedHat

2000-02-28 Thread JF Martinez
If RedHat pushes towards resource hungry User interfaces like Gnome/KDE and installations in Python who are looong (at least the update was) on a Cyrix 686 at 133 Mhz (rated like a 166+) it seems there is little reason to continue using the -m486 flag for compiling since 486s seem far too und

Re: plead for documentation for changes in redhat 6.2

2000-02-28 Thread John Summerfield
> JF Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That was wmconfig job: ensure menus were up to date. > > Well, they never really were. Not much supported that method of WM > config and whenever you installed a new app, it wasn't in the list. > > How many real fans of AnotherLevel are out there

Re: plead for documentation for changes in redhat 6.2

2000-02-28 Thread John Summerfield
> > > In fact people with 16 Megs boxes will be unahappy. Even with 32 megs > > > Gnome/kde are not so great when yoyu are using 6.2 beta. > > > > My daughter's using gnome on RHL 6.0 on a P133, 32 Mb and that's not > > flash. Esp when she starts SO. > > If you use a sensible configuration t