Re: Dell Inspiron 17 with Fedora

2016-08-19 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/19/2016 04:35 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: > This is just a notice for those who may care. > > I installed Fedora 23 on a Dell Inspiron 17 laptop. If I use the latest > kernel, 4.6.6-200, the screen flickers incessantly except when the > touchpad is used to move the cursor. If I use a slightly ol

Dell Inspiron 17 with Fedora

2016-08-19 Thread CLOSE Dave
This is just a notice for those who may care. I installed Fedora 23 on a Dell Inspiron 17 laptop. If I use the latest kernel, 4.6.6-200, the screen flickers incessantly except when the touchpad is used to move the cursor. If I use a slightly older kernel, 4.5.7-202, everything works fine. -- D

Re: Decent picture viewer

2016-08-19 Thread Robin Laing
On 17/08/16 07:53, Tethys wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Andras Simon wrote: In 25+ years of using linux, I haven't seen anything that comes close to xv. Correct answer. I've been using it since the late '80s, and it's still the best option for the vast majority of use cases. For t

Re: Recommended cases and HDDs for home server

2016-08-19 Thread Robin Laing
On 19/08/16 10:41, Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, I'm looking for any recommendations for both HDDs and cases for a simple home server setup. I have a good working mobo. I have used a few Antec Sonata cases; are there better similar cases to consider? As for HDDs, any recommendations on manuf

Re: Kickstart with a static interface

2016-08-19 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | I want to kickstart a laptop with (of course) just one Ethernet | interface. I can make it DHCP during the kickstart but I need it to end | up as a static interface after installation. Is that possible? How? | -- | Dave Close | -- Do this very thing using some Python

Re: Recommended cases and HDDs for home server

2016-08-19 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:41:06PM -0400, Max Pyziur wrote: > > Greetings, > > I'm looking for any recommendations for both HDDs and cases for a > simple home server setup. > > I have a good working mobo. > > I have used a few Antec Sonata cases; are there better similar cases > to consider? I

Re: Recommended cases and HDDs for home server

2016-08-19 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 01:08:46PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > My corsair case has a couple of features that I've now > seen in other cases as well: > > 1. "Portholes" in the back of the case so you can run >all the annoying wires around behind the motherboard >and out the nearest port whe

Re: Recommended cases and HDDs for home server

2016-08-19 Thread Mark Haney
That's almost the exact same case I have for my 8-core AMD system. Nice case, the Corsair fans, pumps and POwer supply fit perfectly and it's really very quiet for a liquid cooled system with 7 fans in it. The external reusable dust filters are awesome (I have 3 cats and a large python running ar

Re: Recommended cases and HDDs for home server

2016-08-19 Thread Tom Horsley
My corsair case has a couple of features that I've now seen in other cases as well: 1. "Portholes" in the back of the case so you can run all the annoying wires around behind the motherboard and out the nearest port where they need to connect to something. 2. A big opening in the back wh

Recommended cases and HDDs for home server

2016-08-19 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, I'm looking for any recommendations for both HDDs and cases for a simple home server setup. I have a good working mobo. I have used a few Antec Sonata cases; are there better similar cases to consider? As for HDDs, any recommendations on manufacturers, branding, sizes (don't