Re: Is Meego desktop available in Fedora 15?

2011-09-29 Thread Weather
Rahul Sundaram wrote: >It is not available. Meego as a project seems more focused on >providing >a full operating system on its own and have tight trademark >restrictions. Makes it difficult to package it as part of a >distribution. The project also seems to in a suspended state MeeGo is me

Re: Building X11R6.8 in Fedora 15 - Flex not found

2011-09-26 Thread Weather
Doug Kuvaas wrote: >I am trying to build an older version of X Server on Fedora 15 to >allow me to run a legacy application. Fedora 8, which functions >correctly for our application, will not install on a new computer for >some reason, presumably because the new hardware uses UEFI, and Fedora

Re: GGoogle chat vs Skype

2011-09-23 Thread Weather
Joe Zeff > >And then, of course, there's the most wonderful thing about converting >your whole office to VOIP: nobody can call the sysadmin to complain >that >the LAN's down. Sounds like a very 2010 thing to do... I think we now only have voip for customer helpdesk and the switchboard opera

Re: BFO not working

2011-09-19 Thread Weather
Peter Boy wrote: >Am Montag, den 19.09.2011, 08:52 +0200 schrieb Christopher Svanefalk: >> has anybody had any problems getting past the boot-stage using BFO >> (http://boot.fedoraproject.org/index)? Whenever I try, I seem to get >> stuck at the download of initrd.img. > >I had the same proble

Re: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-19 Thread Weather
>I think that's likely. I also note that several people have chimed in >recently with a more positive take. When I first met gnome-shell I got as frustrated as everyone else. I guess offering a quick tutorial on first login would be a very good move. Like firefox when they have new features.

Re: Need KVM switch

2011-09-18 Thread Weather
>Given that all I want to do is scp with the occasional ssh, samba seems > >like overkill. If what you mostly want to do is file transfer, start file the sharing service on the windows side and then use smbclient from linux. You don't really need to share anything as windows loves to share a