--- On Mon, 6/13/11, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:02 PM,
> Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
> >
> > Not all that old. I'm running kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 on
> the Debian 6 VM, which
> > I haven't checked lately to see if there's an update.
> M
--- On Mon, 6/13/11, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 06/13/2011 12:25 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >
> > After all, most of the hardware is at least 6 years
> > old. So, by today's standards, for a desktop, it's
> > OLD, and I need it to maintain usability for anothe
--- On Sun, 6/12/11, JD wrote:
> On 06/12/2011 03:08 PM, Patrick
> Bartek wrote:
> > It's been a nice ride these past 7 years with Fedora
> > as my primary OS, but it's time to move on. My current
> >
> > [snip]
>
> As was stated in a recent respon
--- On Sun, 6/12/11, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
> > It's been a nice ride these past 7 years with Fedora
> as my primary OS, but it's time to move on.
>
> This reminds me of OS/2 users on oS/2 maling list who
> often decided
> that
--- On Sun, 6/12/11, Digimer wrote:
> On 06/12/2011 06:08 PM, Patrick
> Bartek wrote:
> > It's been a nice ride these past 7 years with Fedora
> > as my primary OS, but it's time to move on. My current
> > [snip]
>
> Every distro exists to fit a nich
--- On Sun, 6/12/11, Andras Simon wrote:
> On 6/13/11, Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Considered XFCE and LXDE instead, but
> > decided the best option was to abandon the Desktop GUI
> environment
> > all-together in favor of a well-featured
It's been a nice ride these past 7 years with Fedora as my primary OS, but it's
time to move on. My current and future needs are for a support life measured
in years, not months. And CentOS and Scientific Linux didn't fulfill my other
requirements. Neither did the Rolling Release distros: At
--- On Wed, 6/8/11, Beartooth wrote:
> I've been running Omega Linux 14 (respin
> of F 14) on an EeePC
> 701, with an 8GB camera card in the slot. I'm very pleased
> with the OS
> (Rahul, I owe you big time!); but the hardware just doesn't
> fit my extra
> large trifocal fingers and arthri
--- On Thu, 5/26/11, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have been using an HP2400 duo core
> for years (is there a way to find
> the manufacturing date without going into bios?). But
> this morning it
> jsut about gave me a heart attack when it would not come
> out of
> standby. Reseating the drive
--- On Wed, 4/13/11, Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus wrote:
> Yesterday I installed Fedora14 on an old Dell PC (an Optiplex G260)
> enhanced with 2 GB in RAM. All is working OK, but I have few doubts yet.
> Before continue with this I want to specify two things:
>
> First, I have a little exper
--- On Tue, 3/22/11, Luc MAIGNAN wrote:
> I use VirtualBox on a RHEL5 with 24 cores (6 x4-cores
> processors).
> But it seems like only one or two processors are used. How
> can I
> configure VirtualBox and/or my virtual machine to allow it
> to use all
> processors ?
Does this not work: Star
--- On Mon, 3/14/11, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 03/14/2011 06:22 AM, Piscium
> wrote:
> > I am currently using a full desktop environment
> (Gnome) but am
> > considering using instead a window manager. There are
> dozens of them
> > around, so I have been exploring and comparing.
> >
> > I notic
--- On Wed, 3/9/11, JB wrote:
> madunix gmail.com
> gmail.com> writes:
>
> >
> > I will try to add more RAM to it. I have done the yum
> check ... all went OK
> > ... but it didn't change the behaviour. Thanks for
> your help.
> > ...
>
> OK.
> Now you can look at your system components.
>
--- On Tue, 3/8/11, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> I wonder if there's any Fedora (1.0?
> :) that would run on a 486sx-33
> system with 8MB of RAM.
Why does it have to specifically be Fedora?
> I don't need a GUI. My intent is to connect an ancient SCSI
> based
> scanner through a PCMCIA SCSI interfa
--- On Mon, 3/7/11, madu...@gmail.com wrote:
> Recently upgraded from Fedora 9 to Fedora 12 (upgrade
> procedure not
> fresh install) and Xorg appears to behave strange, cpu
> jumps to high
> utilization and Xorg getting 50% or more and swap
> keep increasing.
> Any suggestions.
Yes.
First, di
--- On Sun, 2/27/11, Andras Simon wrote:
> On 2/27/11, Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
>
> > TO: OP
> >
> > If you think it's specifically a Fedora problem (I
> don't), I would install
>
> Me neither. It's just that I still think it's possible
--- On Sat, 2/26/11, Andras Simon wrote:
> On 2/26/11, Bruno Wolff III
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 20:02:26 +0100,
> > Andras Simon
> wrote:
> >>
> >> The crashes seem to happen more frequently when
> I'm doing something
> >> interactively (even if it's just browsing, running
> yum).
--- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jim wrote:
> On 02/21/2011 02:33 PM, Patrick
> Bartek wrote:
> > --- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jim
> wrote:
> >
> >> A Sony Vaio will not let me boot on
> >> cdrom with a Crashed Windows OS,
> >> trying to install Fedora only on lap
--- On Mon, 2/21/11, Jim wrote:
> A Sony Vaio will not let me boot on
> cdrom with a Crashed Windows OS,
> trying to install Fedora only on laptop. Even if I
> have BIOS set to
> boot off Cdrom.
>
> I even hooked a external cdrom to usb and enabled in Bios
> to be first
> boot device, won't
--- On Mon, 2/14/11, erikmccaskey64 wrote:
> http://www.filehippo.com/download_sandboxie/
>
> It's a great application [ for windows... :\ ]
> Are there any programs under Fedora, that has the ~same features?
> To be specific: The user could launch a program [e.g.: Google Chrome]
> inside this sa
--- On Thu, 2/3/11, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 19:17 -0800,
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
>
> > Looking for a simple audio recorder with built-in
> playback for foreign
> > language practice. Commandline type okay.
> Will be using a Skype-type
> > headse
--- On Thu, 2/3/11, Zoltan Hoppar wrote:
> I would like to suggest one of my favourite sound
> recorders, it's name
> is Pulsecaster. It's usable for podcasting, but records
> anything that
> you say into your mic. No need to terminal, it has nice
> gui, and uses
> pulseaudio directly. What I rea
Looking for a simple audio recorder with built-in playback for foreign language
practice. Commandline type okay. Will be using a Skype-type headset with
integrated microphone--two separate plugs. Have found many audio recording
studio programs, but don't need all that sophistication. Tried a
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, Boggiano wrote:
> --- On Tue, 1/18/11, g wrote:
>
> > On 01/18/2011 02:52 PM, Temlakos wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I suspect that the answer depends solely on whether
> > you come to Linux
> > > from Mac or Windows.
>
> What about those of us who came from AmigaOS and its Workbench
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, g wrote:
> On 01/18/2011 02:52 PM, Temlakos wrote:
>
>
> > I suspect that the answer depends solely on whether
> you come to Linux
> > from Mac or Windows.
>
> so what would you suspect for those of us who moved from
> unix to
> slackware and changed from gnome to kde?
W
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user
> friendly
> then GNOME desktop?
No, it isn't, but since you can totally customize either, the question is
really irrelevant.
B
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--- On Wed, 1/5/11, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> This computer has
> developed problems and I have elected to replace
> it with another used computer which FedEx
> should deliver in a few
> days. I know I can transfer file from one to
> the other but is there
> any hope I could simply ins
--- On Sun, 1/2/11, Alex wrote:
> >> Here is an example:
> >>
> >> http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/truegrit/
> >>
> >> Perhaps there's a firefox plugin, or you know how
> to get something
> >> like VLC to play them from the URL?
> >
> > Do you have all the required codecs? I use the
--- On Tue, 12/21/10, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> The Fedora-14-Live-multi.iso image is
> a DVD image that uses GRUB rather
> than isolinux to boot to a menu of Live CD ISO images. At
> 5.3 GB, it
> will not fit on an ordinary single layer DVD and requires a
> dual-layer
> DVD disc & drive.
--- On Wed, 12/15/10, Roubhya Shankar Aluni wrote:
> I have downloaded a fedora 10 dvd iso of size approx 1.58GB and after
> burning it is bootable! But surprisingly it also has no EFI folder! How it
> boots at all ? And if it is bootable then other DVD ISOs having no EFI &
> size approx. 3.4
--- On Mon, 12/13/10, Roubhya Shankar Aluni wrote:
> I am new here! Hello everybody! Can any one say how to boot from Fedora 10
> DVD ? Because it has no EFI folder in dvd. I have downloaded fedora 10 i386
> dvd iso (32bit) several times from different locations but no iso has that
> EFI folde
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> Bartek wrote:
> > --- On Sun, 12/5/10, Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
> >
> >> $ps -ef shows, in part:
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> B
> > Wow! It finally showed up. 8 hours after
> th
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> $ps -ef shows, in part:
>
> root
> 178 2 0
> 09:06 ? 00:00:00 [nouveau/0]
> root
> 179 2 0
> 09:06 ? 00:00:00 [nouveau/1]
>
> Is this normal? I don't recall ever having
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> On 12/05/2010 02:56 PM, Patrick
> Bartek wrote:
> > --- On Sun, 12/5/10, Konstantin Svist
> wrote:
> >>> $ps -ef shows, in part:
> >>>
> >>> root
> >> 178
> 2 0
> >
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Michael Miles wrote:
> > Patrick Bartek
> yahoo.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >> ...
> >>
> > Take a look at your monitor outputs - make sure you
> have only one connected,
> > the others disconnected (if that is
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, JB wrote:
> Patrick Bartek yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > ...
>
> Take a look at your monitor outputs - make sure you have
> only one connected,
> the others disconnected (if that is your desired config).
Only have the DVI-DVI cable connected. I
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> On 12/05/2010 12:11 PM, Patrick
> Bartek wrote:
> > (NOTE: This is the second attempt to post this.
> First try got error from Fedora List Mail Daemon.)
>
> Was it "Two Instances of Nouveau Running" ~3hrs ago?
&g
(NOTE: This is the second attempt to post this. First try got error from
Fedora List Mail Daemon.)
$ps -ef shows, in part:
root 178 2 0 09:06 ?00:00:00 [nouveau/0]
root 179 2 0 09:06 ?00:00:00 [nouveau/1]
Is this normal? I don't recall ever having t
$ps -ef shows, in part:
root 178 2 0 09:06 ?00:00:00 [nouveau/0]
root 179 2 0 09:06 ?00:00:00 [nouveau/1]
Is this normal? I don't recall ever having two.
I recently replaced my LG Flatron L1960TR-BF (4:3 ratio) with an Asus VN242
(16:9). Could this
Just a few days ago, I switched from my old, reliable LG Flatron L1960TR-BF
(4:3, 1280x1024) monitor to an Asus VH242 (16:9). Both are LCD types with
flourescent tube, not LED, backlight. With everything shutdown, I hooked up
the Asus using the LG's DVI-DVI cable. The boot went fine. New mon
--- On Thu, 11/25/10, James McKenzie wrote:
> On 11/25/10 7:00 PM, Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
> > --- On Thu, 11/25/10, Bill Davidsen
> wrote:
> >
> >> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >>> [snip]
> >>> Another reason, I'm looking for Long Time
>
--- On Thu, 11/25/10, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > [snip]
> > Another reason, I'm looking for Long Time Support in
> my next OS.
> >
> I stayed on FC4 for similar reasons, until I could go to
> better hardware and
> FC13, and I still
--- On Thu, 11/25/10, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > --- On Sun, 11/14/10, Bill Davidsen
> wrote:
> >
> >> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >>> [snip]
> >>>
> >>> That's okay as long as the OS is "current&
--- On Wed, 11/24/10, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> [snip]
> >> I ask this because I just installed an Amahi
> system using a local repo
> >> built from the install CDs and many of the
> dependencies for Amahi are
> >> NOT met during the install. They, for the
> most part, get picked up later.
> >>
--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Have only heard of BTRFS recently and know little
> about it, but that will change over the next few days.
> >
> > I opted for ext2 because of the years it
--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >
> > All my research recommended NOT using a journaling
> filesystem like ext3 on SSDs. It wears them out faster.
> Although, I did read one article where t
--- On Fri, 11/19/10, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> On 11/19/2010 01:45 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >
> > All my research recommended NOT using a journaling
> filesystem like ext3 on SSDs. It wears them out
> faster. Although, I did read one article where the
> writer a
--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> On 11/11/2010 01:35 PM, Beartooth
> wrote:
> > I have F14 installed and running on
> an EeePC 701 -- the earliest
> > smallest slowest EeePC afaik.
> >
>
> I also have an EeePC 701 with 512Mb memory and a 4Gb SSD
> drive.
>
>
> First you
--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Steven I Usdansky wrote:
> > It's not at all clear to me how one would go about
> installing f13 or f14
> > (or anything else similarly-sized) on a 4 gig device.
> You may have better
> > luck if you can stick an 8 gig (or bigger) SDHC card
> in the SDHC card
> > reader,
--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Zoltan Hoppar wrote:
> I have an strange question about virtual desktops. Usually, every user
> could set up multiple virtual desktops - where you could switch around -
> basically with an applet. I mosly in my times I like to do multiple things
> together - therefore I wo
--- On Mon, 11/15/10, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have a Asus EE 700 with 512 Mb
> memory. FC12 meminfo reports ~490Mb
> usable memory as I suspect Video is stealing some memory.
>
> Anyway, FC14 install reports that there is NOT enough
> memory for a
> graphical install. To add insult to in
--- On Sun, 11/14/10, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Saturday, November 13, 2010
> 06:26:09 pm Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > I've never demeaned Fedora. There are things I
> don't like to be sure, but that can be said of all
> things. I've been using it since FC3 after try
--- On Sun, 11/14/10, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > That's okay as long as the OS is "current" when it is
> installed and will be supported for those 5 years or
> so. (I'm not a cutting edge type of person. It
>
--- On Sun, 11/14/10, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
>
> > Since FC6 (I've been using Fedora since Core 3), I've
> only upgraded with every third release--6-9-12. I
> think it wasteful of time and energy to upgrade any
> faster. It takes almost the
--- On Sat, 11/13/10, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
>
> ...snip...
>
> > Fedora's release cycles when it was Fedora Core used
> to be longer and
> > not on a strict schedule as it is now. A new
> version was released
> > when
--- On Fri, 11/12/10, Tom H wrote:
> Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
>
> > I never said that nor was it my intention to imply
> that. All I said was in the 10
> > years of using Linux none of my systems were ever
> hacked or infected. I never
> > said I didn
--- On Fri, 11/12/10, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 11/12/2010 08:31 AM, Patrick
> Bartek wrote:
> >
> > That's okay as long as the OS is "current" when it is
> installed and
> > will be supported for those 5 years or so.
>
> I understand that, bu
--- On Thu, 11/11/10, James Mckenzie wrote:
> Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
> >
> >--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon
> wrote:
> >
> [massive snip]
> >> I've spent enough time fixing friends' infected
> >> Windows machines that I've
>
--- On Thu, 11/11/10, James Mckenzie wrote:
> Tim
> >
> >On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 10:36 -0800, Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
> >> Lack of the usual indicators, that is, no odd
> application behavior,
> >> no unusual slow-downs, no excessive CPU usage, no
> exc
-- On Thu, 11/11/10, Andras Simon wrote:
> On 11/11/10, Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
> > --- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon
> wrote:
> >
> >> [snip]
> >> I hope that you're not deluding yourself...
> >
> > Why would you think I am?
>
--- On Thu, 11/11/10, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 10:36 -0800,
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > Lack of the usual indicators, that is, no odd
> application behavior,
> > no unusual slow-downs, no excessive CPU usage, no
> excessive or
> > abnormal net (or hard
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 11/09/2010 07:35 PM, Patrick
> Bartek wrote:
> > I've gotten to the point where I'm tiring of Fedora's
> fast release
> > cycle. I need a longer life OS. I build my
> personal systems to last
> &
--- On Thu, 11/11/10, Beartooth wrote:
> I have F14 installed and running on an
> EeePC 701 -- the earliest
> smallest slowest EeePC afaik.
>
> It boots and it runs. But it's not
> usable yet; for one thing,
> when I set it to boot, I then have to check every
> quarter-hour or two to
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >> How do you know you haven't been infected or
> hacked?
> >> (I don't doubt that you do, just curious about
> how.)
> >
> > Lack of the usual indicators, that is, no odd
> application behavior, no
> > unusual slow-downs, no excessive CPU
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Andras Simon wrote:
> On 11/10/10, Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
>
> > I'm not running a server with the need for up-to-date
> security, but a
> > personal desktop that has more that sufficient
> security. After 10 years of
> > using var
-- On Tue, 11/9/10, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> > Since FC6 (I've been using Fedora since Core 3), I've
> only upgraded with every third release--6-9-12. I
> think it wasteful of time and energy to upgrade any
> fast
--- On Tue, 11/9/10, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 19:35:33 -0800
> (PST)
> Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
>
> > Just because it's EOL doesn't mean it stops working on
> that date,
> > too. ;-)
>
> Sure.
The way people talk about EOL, y
--- On Tue, 11/9/10, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:23:30 -0600
> Robert Moskowitz
> wrote:
>
> > Per:
> > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-June/002830.html
> >
> > "Fedora 12 will continue to receive updates until
> approximately one
> > month after the r
--- On Sun, 11/7/10, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> Thank, you are probably right.
> After 5 attempts to udgrade my fedora 11 system to 12 or
> 13. I just
> gave up. In my opinion, there is a problem with the rpm
> db.
> I checked the hardware.
> The system became unstable after an access to the rpmdb.
>
--- On Wed, 10/6/10, Maxime Alarie wrote:
> I have never used dd to clone a hard disk.
>
> I use rsync for a lot of my backups, and I was wondering
> what would be the best tool to clone a disk. I don’t want 3rd
> party software also. I want built in command line tools.
>
> I know rsync wi
--- On Thu, 9/30/10, adrian kok wrote:
> Can I know which fedora is stable?
If you mean like how Debian classifies its releases? Then I don't think Fedora
ever reaches "Stable". It is really a cutting edge test bed for new features
and code for RHEL and not a general use Linux Desktop OS. W
--- On Wed, 9/29/10, Silent-Hunter wrote:
> On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > --- On Tue, 9/28/10, Silent-Hunter
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>> [snip]
> >>>
> >> Now this is very odd. I did the self test, and now
&
--- On Tue, 9/28/10, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 07:18 -0700,
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > The manufacturer of my printer (Epson) recommended
> that I use the
> > printer at least twice a week to keep the jets
> clear. It didn't help.
>
> Sure it did.
--- On Tue, 9/28/10, Silent-Hunter wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> Now this is very odd. I did the self test, and now it
> works. From the
> test AND from Linux.
Probably, the yellow ink jet was just clogged, a common problem if you don't
use your printer regularly, particularly if you live in a dry
--- On Sun, 9/26/10, Silent-Hunter wrote:
> Hi! My Canon BJC-70 will not print yellow or any
> colour that requires
> yellow. It prints other colours, but none that contain
> yellow. I have
> tried everything, including compiling the latest
> GhostScript. Please help?
Did this just occur? D
--- On Wed, 9/22/10, Walter Cazzola wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Greg Woods
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 18:01 +0200, Walter Cazzola
> wrote:
>
> >> Unfortunately the last two kernel upgrades
> (2.6.34.6-54 and 2.6.34.7-56)
> >> didn't correspond to an upgrade of the kernel
> modules n
On Tue, 9/21/10, earlsco...@comcast.net wrote:
> I am a new user to Fedora.
>
> I ran the latest updates and pulled 404 updates. One of the updates
> stated it needs more room on the root file system in order to download
> it.
>
> The root file system is maxed otu at 3.3gb in size. How do I ge
--- On Tue, 9/14/10, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>
> > And for other things that you might have to deal with,
> such as being
> > handed a Word document. They're designed to copy
> the metrics of the
> > Microsoft fonts (size and shape), so that documents
> will appear as
> > intended.
>
>
--- On Thu, 9/9/10, JD wrote:
> On 09/09/2010 05:29 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> [snip]
> > IIRC, CentOS 5, the latest version, as well as
> Scientific Linux, too, is based off FC6. That's not
> all that far removed from 4, is it? Although, as I
> recall, FC6 wor
--- On Thu, 9/9/10, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:32 PM, JD
>
> wrote:
> > Why not upgrade the whole installation to F13, or
> better yet, on Nov 2nd,
> > of this year F14 will be released! Upgrade to F14 and
> then do yum update
> > to get the latest compilers.
>
> Although t
--- On Mon, 8/23/10, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 10:13 -0700,
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > FWIW, usually for a "typical" install from CDs, you
> only need the
> > first two (or three), not the whole set.
>
> I used to find that was promised (as in,
--- On Mon, 8/23/10, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
>
> >> I have a Thinkpad T23 with 512MB
> >> RAM,
> >> which I seldom use.
> >> (It is kept in a holiday location.)
> >>
> >> It is currently running Fedora-10,
&
--- On Sat, 8/21/10, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I have a Thinkpad T23 with 512MB
> RAM,
> which I seldom use.
> (It is kept in a holiday location.)
>
> It is currently running Fedora-10,
> which probably shows when it was last used.
> I tried installing Fedora-13 from the KDE Live CD,
> and was a b
--- On Mon, 8/16/10, JB wrote:
> Matthew Ramos yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > Hi everyone -I am new to Linux and I am trying to
> compare Fedora’s desktop
> > version Linux to a few other distributors. Could
> anyone please tell me:
> >
> >
> > the hardware requirements
> > features
> > applicat
--- On Tue, 7/27/10, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > [snip]
> > I never could see any advantage to LVMs (over "real"
> partitions) other than being able to resize them while they
> are mounted.
> >
> They do make it easy to move stuff
--- On Thu, 7/22/10, Neal Becker wrote:
> Thanks much for the help! That
> was the clue I needed to get firefox going.
> I needed gecko-mediaplayer.
>
> I still haven't figured out google-chrome-unstable though.
>
> google-chrome-unstable-6.0.472.0-53024.x86_64
>
> It seems to find plugins
--- On Thu, 7/22/10, Neal Becker wrote:
> I'm trying to view this:
>
> http://blip.tv/file/3900047/
>
> I think I have all relevant software installed, but it
> doesn't work. Tried
> both chrome-unstable and firefox.
>
> Work for you?
Yes. Works fine here. Downloads and plays automatical
--- On Mon, 7/19/10, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > --- On Tue, 7/13/10, Peter Diercks
> wrote:
> >
> >> I am running a server under F11. It is a remote
> machine
> >> which I have no
> >> physical access to. It has a network co
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Peter Diercks wrote:
> I am running a server under F11. It is a remote machine
> which I have no
> physical access to. It has a network connection. I wanted
> to upgrade to
> F12 using preupgrade again, but this time I am afraid I'll
> run into
> problems due to the size of /
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Michael Miles wrote:
> Fedora 12 x86_64
>
> I did look this time and it seems the gods that have
> control did not
> give a kmod for the new Nvidia driver 195.36.31 for the new
> kernel
> 2.6.32.16-141.
> It has a kmod there for the old kernel 2.6.32.14-127
>
> The metapa
--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Antonio M wrote:
> 2010/7/13 Tim :
> > On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 09:12 +0200, Antonio M wrote:
> >> I am using a network printer (NRG-MP-C3300) and I
> am noting that I can
> >> choose format of paper (A3-A4) when printing from
> openoffice but when
> >> I print from some applica
--- On Sun, 7/11/10, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> I've been running Fedora on my old Thinkpad A22p (P-III/M w/512MB)
> since FC4 or before, upgrading from one version to the next using the
> same partition sizes. For F13 I increased the size of /boot, but kept
> swap at 1GB:
>
> # fdisk -l /
--- On Wed, 6/30/10, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 15:39 -0700,
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > > Zip is used for some Linux stuff, besides which
> the OP says
> > > he extracted
> > > a .so file, so it is for Linux.
> >
> >
--- On Wed, 6/30/10, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 09:51 -0700,
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > > I tried to download flashplayer for linux from
> adobe website and
> > > downloaded this zip file. i extracted it and
> found that it contained
&
--- On Wed, 6/30/10, ranjan sundar wrote:
> I tried to download flashplayer for linux from adobe website and
> downloaded this zip file. i extracted it and found that it contained
> only 1 file with .so extension (shared object).
>
> [snip]
My guess--and it's only a guess--is that you downloade
--- On Tue, 6/22/10, g wrote:
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
>
>
>
> > You don't need multiple swaps: Linux can share one
> without problems.
>
> and what happens if an active linux is put into
> suspend/sleep and system
> is rebooted?
Wouldn't the sle
--- On Tue, 6/22/10, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:45:40 -0700
> (PDT)
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
>
> > You don't need multiple swaps: Linux can share one
> without problems.
>
> Unless, of course, you want to hibernate one and boot the
> other :-
--- On Thu, 6/24/10, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> I'm moving /, /boot and swap from a
> conventional hard drive to an SSD.
>
> Both drives are 160 GB in size.
>
> I want to resize the /boot and swap partitions from 200 MB
> and 2 GB to
> 500 MB and 8 GB respectively. The first
> resize is because pre
--- On Tue, 6/22/10, Mats wrote:
> I want to have (at least) two linux-system (no windows) on
> the same hd.
> If I make two partitions for the first (/ and swap) and
> then the same
> with the other one. Is that ok? All detailed explanation
> I've seen is
> about installing windows and linux and
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 14:47 -0700,
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > An inferior format, VHS, image qualitywise, yes
>
> No. Have you actually compared them, or just
> repeating gossip? I have.
> They were both as bad as each other, in ge
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