NOT A Technical Question.....Just An Observation....

Just wanted to know what anyone else thinks about this? I mean can Android be considered "Linux" officially?or is it an offshoot of Linux?anyone at all? http://www.zdnet.com/windows-has-fallen-behind-apple-ios-and-google-android-708699/ EGO II -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

Re: NOT A Technical Question.....Just An Observation....

On 12/17/2012 06:50 PM, William Brown wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 18:41 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Just wanted to know what anyone else thinks about this? I mean can Android be considered "Linux" officially?or is it an offshoot of Linux?anyone at all? http:

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

On 12/17/2012 06:43 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/17/2012 03:13 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 12/17/2012 05:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 12/17/2012 02:40 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Indeed!?I only JUST recently got my 67 year old Mum to install and USE Fuduntu Linux on he

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

On 12/18/2012 03:14 AM, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 17:11 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: that means this technology you speak of is OLDER than I am!...LoL! Every now and then, while I'm doing something work related (I work in video production), I like to point out to them h

Re: Getting to F18

On 12/18/2012 03:16 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 12/18/2012 04:05 PM, Tim wrote: These days, I try to avoid getting involved in fixing people's computers, I liken it to being asked to clean out their blocked toilet with bare hands. I don't think I would use that analogy. After having cleaned out t

Re: Simple Question Re: FedUp

On 12/18/2012 03:21 AM, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 16:28 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: Hey, you kids... Get off my lawn. Yes, we had Google back then. See: http://www.masswerk.at/google60/ I've still got a few paper cards floating around. I don't have the punch cards, though, but the ty

Re: Partitioning between SDD and HDD

On 12/21/2012 07:30 AM, Javier Perez wrote: Hi, Roberto, I understand your point. One is more likely to be shuffling data than programs, therefore it is better to put the data on the faster storage medium. But the way I understand it, there is a limited number of times that one can write to a S

Re: Partitioning between SDD and HDD

On 12/21/2012 11:51 AM, Alan Evans wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: You mean that all this hype over SSD's and they're LIMITED? I thought they were supposed to be BETTER than the spinning drives of today? Exaclty how are they bett

Re: Partitioning between SDD and HDD

On 12/22/2012 05:32 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 21 December 2012, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent: I have a Gateway laptop so there's not physical way I could do 2 different types of drives Perhaps something plugged into the PCMCIA or express slots? I didn't know that t

Re: Partitioning between SDD and HDD

On 12/23/2012 08:27 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: Perhaps something plugged into the PCMCIA or express slots? Eddie G. O'Connor Jr: I didn't know that the SSD have the "external" options like external USB's do? I guess that COULD be a possible way to have SSD and SATA HDD in th

Re: Fedora 17 is behaving very unstable

On 12/24/2012 07:00 AM, Luiz Emediato wrote: I did not try it on another computer. It looks like Fedora 17 LIVE DVD is working fine on the machine. Perhaps my hard drive (which is brand new, 3TiB) is not good after all. I will reinstall the system on another HDD. Thanks. On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at

Swapping HDD....

I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I do this when I don't have another laptop with the same exact specs as the Gatewa

Re: Swapping HDD....

On 12/27/2012 12:04 AM, staticsafe wrote: On 12/26/12 21:50, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I have accumulated. I want to swap it out

Re: Swapping HDD....

On 12/27/2012 11:15 AM, Paweł Brodacki wrote: 2012/12/27 Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. : WOW!so much information to digest! Thanks to one and all, but after reading the responses, I think the Clonezilla way might be for me, I'm not too familiar with the Terminal and the command line

Re: Something went wrong.....

On 01/05/2013 12:57 PM, antonio wrote: Joe Zeff ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 11/12/2012 22:19: On 12/11/2012 01:07 PM, antonio wrote: I have a doubt on this subjectif the error is before login, where shall I get the .xsession-errors file??? A new version of the file i

Re: laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

On 01/05/2013 02:20 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: I don't know about elsewhere, but here in Australia, high resolution TV has been a bit of a flop. R. G. Newbury: HD will come. If you like sports you might hit on your local station to broadcast Oz footie in HD. We had a sports-only HD channel, that eve

Re: Steam on Fedora

On 01/13/2013 12:41 AM, Errol Mangwiro wrote: By the did anyone else see this? http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3852692/valve-linux-steam-box-local-gaming-server I am eagerly awaiting this. Wondering how much I'll have to dish out for the "entire kit"...(will definitely want some type of surro

Re: [OT] posting and receiving post

On 01/13/2013 09:02 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 01/13/2013 08:44 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:03:01 + g wrote: why is it that when posting to this tsl i will sometimes receive my via my subscription and sometimes i do not? I don't know if any other mail services operate

Re: Appointments & tasks

On 01/13/2013 09:27 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:29:28 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: Yes, you're using "fallback-mode" of GNOME 3, not the GNOME Shell. The applet differs when using GNOME Shell. Yes, you are absolutely right. How can I get the same behavior in the fallback

Re: Appointments & tasks

On 01/13/2013 09:58 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: On 2013-01-13 15:50, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 01/13/2013 09:27 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:29:28 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: Yes, you're using "fallback-mode" of GNOME 3, not the GNOME Shell. The

Re: Steam on Fedora

On 01/13/2013 10:13 AM, David wrote: On 1/13/2013 9:42 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 01/13/2013 12:41 AM, Errol Mangwiro wrote: By the did anyone else see this? http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3852692/valve-linux-steam-box-local-gaming-server I am eagerly awaiting this. Wond

Re: Steam on Fedora

On 01/13/2013 11:33 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: I tried out Team Fortress 2 and everything worked without a hitch. Very impressive! Richard "Wish List" - Note to self: add Team Fortress 2! LoL! EGO II -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti

Re: [OT] posting and receiving post

On 01/13/2013 03:26 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 13.01.2013 21:14, schrieb g: also, good luck with subfolders under inbox who needs luck there? "mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new" is your friend Thank you Sir! This is JUST what I needed! EGO II -- users mailing list users@lists.fedora

Re: [OT] posting and receiving post

On 01/13/2013 04:23 PM, Tim wrote: Tim: What's a poc? ;-) Patrick O'Callaghan: Part of a sig. But that would be spelt POAS... ;-) Speaking of TLAs, it always makes me smirk when I see someone refer to a computerised cash register as a POS (point of sales) device. Considering that the POS

Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

On 01/14/2013 11:47 PM, staticsafe wrote: On 1/14/2013 23:02, g wrote: On 01/15/2013 02:09 AM, staticsafe wrote: "also, good luck with subfolders under inbox." What exactly is the problem? there is a known quirk with mozilla's thunderbird email client involving an email account's Inbox that h

Re: FedUp: best plan?

On 01/16/2013 08:59 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:41:41AM +, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I've been watching the developments regarding everybody trying to upgrade via FedUp & can anyone advise me whether issuing: 'sudo fedup-cli —network 18 —debuglog fedupdebug.log' is

Re: A Look at Fedora 18

On 01/16/2013 11:12 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 01/16/2013 12:05 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: I remember reading that F18 includes both Gnome 3.x and also Gnome 2.x renamed MATE desktop? More or less. MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. Fedora also includes Cinnamon, now, which is an alternate shell ba

Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

On 01/18/2013 03:18 PM, g wrote: On 01/15/2013 04:47 AM, staticsafe wrote: <> OK, now I'm worried. if you do all your sorting on server and use imap, you *might not* have a problem. i can not comment what happens when running imap, as i use pop3 and have not tested the corruption problem with

Re: [OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

On 01/18/2013 03:59 PM, g wrote: On 01/16/2013 04:47 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: <> So just to clarify for someone like me.who has a three sub-folders under my GMail account running on TB. You're saying I should move those folders to the "Local Folder" on

Re: Installer inadequacies

On 01/18/2013 01:26 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: David A. De Graaf wrote: Fedora 18. What a disaster! What were they thinking when they threw away a perfectly good installer and inflicted this new User Interface on us? Whoever decided to reinvent disk partitioning and embed it in this installer sh

Re: fedup: it's full of stars

On 01/18/2013 01:54 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/18/2013 05:03 AM, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 02:57 -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >I hate them too, but we probably aren't the intended audience. Which raises the question of what the hell is the thought process behind that? Are they cr

Re: fedup: it's full of stars

On 01/20/2013 08:51 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.01.2013 02:26, schrieb Joe Zeff: That's always possible, of course. Most of the time, the posters are complaining that they don't understand the boot messages and they don't want to see them; all they want is the animation back. That's not

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

On 01/21/2013 01:04 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/21/2013 01:19 AM, James Freer wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Dear friends, I recently upgraded from F17 to F18. I chose not to use fedup but rather I used fedora-u

Re: Installer inadequacies

On 01/21/2013 01:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.01.2013 19:13, schrieb Tim: ...complete snippage of what indicates why he gets moderated... oh and your "Put your tin hat on, your fingers in your ears, and start chanting la la la la la, now" was fine? Yes, I may be lucky in that my softwar

Re: fedup: it's full of stars

On 01/21/2013 01:26 PM, Ian Malone wrote: On 21 January 2013 15:32, Tim wrote: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht: I assume that there is a human-factors study that indicates that non-technical users don't like to be reminded of how complicated things really are under the hood. At least that is why I thou

Re: Installer inadequacies

On 01/21/2013 01:50 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.01.2013 19:44, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: I am currently running Fedora 17 on my laptop. I'm the only one who uses it, and can access it, but I worry sometimes about someone trying to hack into it when I access the internet..

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

On 01/21/2013 01:53 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:28:12 -0500 "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: I too was going to install F18...but I will wait until F19 or F20 before I move forwardI have way too much riding on this laptop working properly...and since it

Re: fedora-upgrade from F17->F18 (mostly successful, but some issues)

On 01/21/2013 01:59 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 21.01.2013 19:53, schrieb Ranjan Maitra: In my mind, the biggest issue with F18 is the installer which has been commented on, and which puts things like disk partitioning under the rug. Perhaps the goal is to mimic other popular (by ways of mob vo

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

On 01/23/2013 02:59 PM, James Freer wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/23/2013 06:53 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: because first new anaconda was approved and integration all over the distribution started and after that damage was done people realized "hm new anaconda is

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

On 01/23/2013 03:29 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 07:59:21PM +, James Freer wrote: I have the greatest respect for the developer's that put in considerable effort for each release. The problem with 6 month release cycle is too little time. I've used linux now for almost 6

Re: Display rates -

On 01/27/2013 03:35 PM, David wrote: On 1/27/2013 1:19 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 27.01.2013 19:04, schrieb David: When the application named system-config-display was still available it would allow the setting to be configured correctly. Since the wizards at Fedora killed it that is no l

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

On 01/27/2013 04:11 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 12:18 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I would have to agree with you James, it might not be a bad idea for them to stretch their release time out a bit? I would have positives from all sides. First,the developers would be able to R

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

On 01/27/2013 04:35 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 08:37:31PM +, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Paul Smith wrote: My hard disk seems to be corrupted, and my machine cannot boot. However, it can enter into emergency mode. I would like to mount my home dir

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

On 01/27/2013 04:56 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: Well, if your hard disk is failing whatever backup you do might just be useless. After all backups are done *before* things fail :-p. I would suggest you try data recovery. For hints you can look her

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

On 01/27/2013 05:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 01:44 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I like your ideas J.Z(LoL!) like I know of a few distros that have their "long term support" versions that are stable, and the packages and apps have all been tested and have been

Re: How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

On 01/27/2013 05:21 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Actually, I am not so sure that my hard disk is corrupted. I have just filed the following bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904853 What happens when you boot from a LiveCD? Doe

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

On 01/27/2013 05:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 02:10 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: P.S -Sorry about the "J.Z." thing...I was in a rush to get my response to you...(had to reboot my machine and didn't want to wait until after wards!!) That's not a p

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

On 01/27/2013 05:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 02:39 PM, carachi diego wrote: But if I compile the kernel without all unnecessary drivers and packet, Can I obtain more performance than only disable some service? You might find this useful: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/blame-game.h

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

On 01/27/2013 06:31 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 03:09 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: This might be true, but is it safe? I mean I realize I'm a newbie when it comes to the whole command-line thing and allbut I thought the services that were enabled upon boot-up were nece

Re: Optimization Start Up of Fedora

On 01/27/2013 06:31 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 03:09 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: This might be true, but is it safe? I mean I realize I'm a newbie when it comes to the whole command-line thing and allbut I thought the services that were enabled upon boot-up were nece

Re: XFCE Weather app can't find me - FC18

On 01/27/2013 06:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 03:17 PM, poma wrote: Put one of these three in ~/.config/xfce4/panel/weather-*.rc: $ xfce4-panel -q && mousepad ~/.config/xfce4/panel/weather-*.rc && xfce4-panel & Use Alt-Tab ;) I live in Camarillo, CA. I just installed the applet and tr

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

On 01/27/2013 08:00 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:55:24 +1100 Philip Rhoades wrote: People, Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:18:40 -0500 From: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: humble suggestion to Fedora develo

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

On 01/27/2013 06:15 PM, Lailah wrote: El vie, 25-01-2013 a las 22:40 +0100, Frantisek Hanzlik escribió: Joe Zeff wrote: > On 01/25/2013 12:46 PM, James Freer wrote: >> LOL - good reply! I must admit i do get fed up with the twin names. In >> the Precise version... it was very much IMprecise. Jus

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

On 01/27/2013 10:42 PM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 27 January 2013, Ranjan Maitra sent: But the rush to release will still be there, whether it is a 6- or 9- or 12-month cycle? At the point of release, inadequately-tested new features may still be a problem, no? I think a more reliable a

Re: OT: what's with the 'i'?

On 01/31/2013 02:16 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/31/2013 08:34 AM, Andras Simon wrote: I'd think it's the coolness thing. What's cool about looking like an ignoramus? To answerlook at society: Sarah Palin.Mit Romney...Lance ArmstrongKanye West.the Kardashians!LoL! Are t

Need Help - .CD/DVD ROM Drive Not Seen By OS.....

I know this is a Fedora-oriented community mailing list, but seeing as how I don't have "access" to another distro's "support network" I figured I would ask here and hope for the best. Here's the scenario: I recently downloaded and burned to DVD the .iso file for a certain Linux distro, and ev

Re: humble suggestion to Fedora developers

On 01/31/2013 04:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/31/2013 12:09 PM, Craig White wrote: these meta discussions seem only to highlight the things one doesn't know about the other. I use both Fedora and Ubuntu. I use Fedora only and migrated to Xfce to avoid having to use Gnome 3. My older sister us

Re: OT: what's with the 'i'?

On 01/31/2013 04:07 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 01/31/2013 03:38 PM, Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 15:55 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Way way OT: Just out of interest, why do some people use the non-existent word "i", not to mention other violations of capitalization rules

Not So Bad......

So I finally have gone ahead and performed the Upgrade to F18 using Fedup. And I have to say, it wasn't as bad as I had THOUGHT it was gonna be! Kudos to the devs for this oneI just hope that in the future, this'll remain the way to upgrade your system. Also I am curious as to if there will

Fedora Release Notes.....

I usually read up on the release notes immediately after upgrading. But I'm going to be on the road a lot, with no internet connection within the next 4 weeks, and I don't want to waint until I find an internet cafe, or until I retur home. Is there somewhere that I could find the release notes

Re: Fedora Release Notes.....

On 02/02/2013 07:48 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/03/2013 08:41 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I usually read up on the release notes immediately after upgrading. But I'm going to be on the road a lot, with no internet connection within the next 4 weeks, and I don't want to wai

Mouse Stops Responding - F18

I've noticed that since upgrading to F18, my mouse will work splendidly for a while and then it becomes most peculiar in its behavior. I will be able to "Open" a new application or folder / file...but the left mouse (nor right for that matter!) button will do nothing within the folder / fil

Re: OT: what's with the 'i'?

On 02/02/2013 08:06 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 02/01/2013 08:16 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/01/2013 04:52 PM, Craig White wrote: It's clear that you want this e-mail list, informal as it is to respect your sense of proper grammar. No, it's not "his sense of proper grammar," it's proper gra

Icon Size.....

I've been enjoying my experience with Fedora 18 so far, but I have one question, it seems the icons for the notifications and alerts that appear on the bottom of the screen are HUGE! Is there a setting that will allow me to shrink them a little? I have searched in the "Settings" option that app

Re: Icon Size.....

On 02/06/2013 12:08 PM, Lailah wrote: El dom, 03-02-2013 a las 18:19 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. escribió: I've been enjoying my experience with Fedora 18 so far, but I have one question, it seems the icons for the notifications and alerts that appear on the bottom of the screen ar

Re: Icon Size.....

On 02/06/2013 08:20 PM, Doug wrote: On 02/06/2013 07:49 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 02/06/2013 12:08 PM, Lailah wrote: El dom, 03-02-2013 a las 18:19 -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. escribió: I've been enjoying my experience with Fedora 18 so far, but I have one questio

Re: Icon Size.....

On 02/06/2013 08:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/06/2013 04:49 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: he was astonished at the size of the icons...and wondered if they could be "reduced" in sizeafter all my attempts, I couldn't do it...but thanks for responding! In Xfce, un

Re: Icon Size.....

On 02/06/2013 09:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/06/2013 05:53 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Thanks Joe! But I've already checked those places.they were the first places I checked.I wonder if there's some sort of "add on" that can be installed for Gn

Re: Icon Size.....

icon-size.html Hope that helps you. R, -Joe Wulf ---- *From:* Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. *To:* Community support for Fedora users *Sent:* Wednesday, February 6, 2013 8:53 PM *Subject:* Re: Icon Size.

Re: Icon Size.....

On 02/07/2013 04:42 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/07/2013 01:29 PM, Eddie O'Connor wrote: YesI found the file in question..opened it with a text editor.and changed the icon size setting... Oh, good. It's nice to know that Gnome hasn't gone the route of putting everything into binary

Re: LibreOffice version 4

On 02/07/2013 05:16 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:46:59 -0200 Fernando Lozano wrote: I was hopping to get it on the next "yum update". ;-) But serious, is there a politic / decision by the Fedora Borard about when'll we get LibreOffice 4? You can download it from: https://w

Re: LibreOffice version 4

On 02/08/2013 10:43 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:29 AM, doug > wrote: You'll most likely have to download it and install it yourself from an rpm or dev archive, since most of the devs of the Linux distros hate it Oh rea

Re: LibreOffice version 4

On 02/09/2013 12:36 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 09/02/2013 09:03, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 09.02.2013, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: As long as I will still be able to USE LibreOffice, then I guess I wouldn't mind the devs inserting another office suite for variety, and choice! And

Re: LibreOffice version 4

On 02/09/2013 10:24 AM, nomnex wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 08:39:09 -0600 Richard Shaw wrote: About 8 hours later on my triple core 3.4GHz machine I had a nice set of rpms. I didn't see anything that jumped out at me that was vastly different from 3.X but I have had any time to do anything produ

Re: LibreOffice version 4

On 02/09/2013 04:48 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/09/2013 01:32 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: You have to fight with incompatibilities because you're using Impress while all the machines at the congresses are solely running Powerpoint (which causes incompatibilities when used to display .odp files). That

Re: copy full system from old disk to a new one

On 02/17/2013 03:30 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 17.02.2013, Martín Marqués wrote: How can I pass my whole system from an old SATA disk (which is giving me some trouble) to a new disk. [] I'm a bit concerned about the root file system, how to change grub, and if I'll have trouble with non-re

Re: Custom Partition Fedora 18

On 02/17/2013 08:22 AM, jonc wrote: On 02/17/2013 06:35 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: Funny you should say that. I am a refugee to KDE on non-RAM-limited machines specifically because I found Gnome 3 so utterly unusable when I first saw it that I cannot imagine myself ever trying it again. And I u

Re:

On 02/17/2013 10:18 AM, Noah Cutler wrote: sit1...@gmail.com I don't get it. EGO II -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedorap

Re: copy full system from old disk to a new one

On 02/17/2013 03:04 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.02.2013 20:59, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: On 02/17/2013 03:30 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 17.02.2013, Martín Marqués wrote: How can I pass my whole system from an old SATA disk (which is giving me some trouble) to a new disk. []

Re:

On 02/17/2013 04:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.02.2013 22:10, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: On 02/17/2013 10:18 AM, Noah Cutler wrote: sit1...@gmail.com <mailto:sit1...@gmail.com> I don't get it i requested OFFLIST what sense this should make he did read "to

Re: Custom Partition Fedora 18

On 02/17/2013 04:27 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 02/17/2013 09:09 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: As far as I'm concerned I love Gnome 3.x!..I figure this is WAY better than the horrible interface from Windows Vista! You do realize that saying it's better than Vista

Re: Custom Partition Fedora 18

On 02/17/2013 05:22 PM, jonc wrote: On 02/17/2013 04:39 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.02.2013 22:35, schrieb jonc: It's my understanding that Fedora's primary role is to evaluate and explore software for Red Hat, not necessarily to produce a stable consumer-level product. That's very much U

Re: Custom Partition Fedora 18

On 02/17/2013 05:33 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.02.2013 23:27, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: Judging by your last statement am I to assume that CentOS is more "reliable" than Fedora?... you know hat RHEL is? http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux I kne

Re: Custom Partition Fedora 18

On 02/17/2013 05:57 PM, jonc wrote: On 02/17/2013 05:27 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Judging by your last statement am I to assume that CentOS is more "reliable" than Fedora?... EGO II I've had a few abrt messages and two instances of Gnome-Shell loc

Re: Custom Partition Fedora 18

On 02/17/2013 06:30 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: On 02/17/2013 10:51 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 02/17/2013 05:33 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.02.2013 23:27, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: Judging by your last statement am I to assume that CentOS is more "reliable"

Re: Why should one upgrade Fedora whenever a new version is released?

On 07/14/2013 12:26 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 07/13/2013 11:57 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: For me it was the aggravation. Installing was always a struggle. I was on F14 when I tried to do a fresh install of F16. Never got it to

Re: a different point of view to "etiquette"

On 07/17/2013 12:28 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Roger wrote: Thank you Linus and others. As I see it, this discussion has little to do with culture, nations or ideologies and a lot to do with rubbishing another person or their ideas for what ever reason. We are all equal, some have more knowledg

Re: please discontinue to moderate Haralds posts

sers Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org Well I for one will be leaving....I may return in the future, but I made a similar plea earlier about this same issue, and wellI'll see you al

Parting Shot....

http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2013/07/linux-were-all-in-this-together-right_24.html EGO II -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailin

Re: setting up my 2T hard drive (WAS Re: Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.)

On 11/15/2013 03:37 PM, Darlene Wallach wrote: linux guy, My name is Darlene Wallach. I purchased a 2T Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk disk from Costco a few years ago. I finally set it up and found your very immensely helpful directions! Thank you very much!!! Darlene Wallach On Thu, Sep 29,

Re: Wish List.....

On 11/17/2013 07:37 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Richard Vickery mailto:richard.vicker...@gmail.com>> wrote: It /is/ possible to buy one and install it on Fedora on it. I remember that when I had an earlier Blackberry it was possible to install ano

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

On 11/21/2013 05:10 PM, Hugh Caley wrote: I'm voting for Cinnamon, since the developer of compiz isn't interested in keeping it going. But maybe if MATE was the default for Fedora he'd change his mind? Or someone else would take over? Hugh -- *Hugh Caley Software Developer, Rocket Aldon Roc

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

On 11/22/2013 07:02 AM, Roger wrote: Setting aside the fact that users list is hardly the place to influence the choice of defaults and it is entirely offtopic to the purpose of this list, the idea that users drive the defaults of Fedora doesn't seem to match reality. If you do want to pres

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

On 11/22/2013 03:23 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: HI On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Ian Malone wrote: I agree that this isn't really the place to influence the choice of defaults, but it is entirely the place for users to form consensus. If you try to talk about this on devel you're

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

On 11/22/2013 08:35 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: >> Which ones would that be?just out of curiosity. I mean... Enlightenment for example Rahul I had forgot about that one!.well for my own experience with

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

On 11/22/2013 07:54 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/22/2013 04:29 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: This is a VERY good point which I had overlooked, the hardware requirements of GNOME are much higher that XFCE (and I believe MATE) and represent choice which is very likely to frustrate potential converts.

Re: OT- Getting Firefox GMail Old Compose (for a while) - Re: Why some say "rpm hell"

On 11/23/2013 09:13 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Fulko Hew > wrote: Can you post some instructions ? (for getting GMail usable again after "New Compose") Get UAControl from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addo

Re: Can't stand Gnome3, I think it's time for Fedora to move on

On 11/26/2013 04:44 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: On 11/22/2013 01:05 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: You know what you prefer and it is available in the repo. It shouldn't matter much to you what the default is. I don't think that's entirely true. Those of us who use a lot of systems and support others

Re: fedup and selinux

I have learned MORE about SELinux just being on this mailing list than from ANY other source out there!thanks to all for your responses to this(this will only help me in my pursuit of RHCE certification!..) EGO II On 12/24/2013 04:24 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Tue, Dec 24,

Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

Hello you Ferdorans! (FedorIANS?...) I have a question,.nowwe all know that there's ways to block unwanted email from your system using Message Filters, and they work by blocking a certain domain or email address and prevent them from hitting your Inbox, I would like to know if anyone k

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