Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 minimal install

2020-03-27 Thread Bee.Lists
Oh please. It was all in light of people being anal. Therefore… I highly suggest that people refrain from being anal on the list. People can also go to the archives to see that top or bottom posting…nobody cares. > On Mar 27, 2020, at 8:46 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > --On Friday, March

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 minimal install

2020-03-27 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, March 27, 2020 4:00 PM -0500 Tom Bishop wrote: I know I rarely post but can we keep it civil on the list, with everything that's going on in the world is it really necessary? I urge everyone to apply Hanlon's Razor. ;) Also, please trim. We don't need to see all that went befor

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 minimal install

2020-03-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 27 Mar, 2020 at 13:33:02 -0600, R C wrote: > just to piss off people like you, > > > you might know the type, they never really answer any questions, lurk around > on a forum like this > > acting like a (self-proclaimed) genius lecturing and patronizing people, as > if they have to be wo

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 minimal install

2020-03-27 Thread R C
Hi, someone pointed out the 'boot' iso, it's approx 600Mb, which works if you can connect to a network.  I used that. In previous versions, I just downloaded the 'minimal install iso', mostly because it is a habbit because my network connection used to be a lot slower, so I downloaded the

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 minimal install

2020-03-27 Thread Bee.Lists
Hi R C. The resulting installation is smaller than the image that you download through FTP, etc. When I first installed this OS during version 5, I was amazed that the installation took a mere fraction of the time it took to go through the menu. Heh. Anyway, give it a whirl as it’s quick.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 minimal install

2020-03-27 Thread Tom Bishop
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 2:33 PM R C wrote: > just to piss off people like you, > > > you might know the type, they never really answer any questions, lurk > around on a forum like this > > acting like a (self-proclaimed) genius lecturing and patronizing people, > as if they have to be worthy > > to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 minimal install

2020-03-27 Thread R C
just to piss off people like you, you might know the type, they never really answer any questions, lurk around on a forum like this acting like a (self-proclaimed) genius lecturing and patronizing people, as if they have to be worthy to get an answer from you (which you typically never do

Re: [CentOS] directfb on CentOS 7

2020-03-27 Thread Jerry Geis
> directFB project has gone dormant and awol, its websites vanished Thanks John. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] directfb on CentOS 7

2020-03-27 Thread John Pierce
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:38 AM Jerry Geis wrote: > I have another package (baresip) that needs "directfb". > good luck.per https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DirectFB-2017-Dormant directFB project has gone dormant and awol, its websites vanished. -- -john r pierce r

[CentOS] directfb on CentOS 7

2020-03-27 Thread Jerry Geis
I have another package (baresip) that needs "directfb". from baresip make MOD:= directfb $(MOD)_SRCS+= directfb.c $(MOD)_LFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --libs directfb) $(MOD)_CFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --cflags directfb \ | sed -e 's/-I/-

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 two installs one is X and one is Xwayland

2020-03-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 27 Mar, 2020 at 08:55:42 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > HI All, > > I have two installs of CentOS 8. One is a VM and uses what sees as the OLD > X as I get /var/log/X* files ... the other is on a real machine and seems > to be using Xwayland and I have no /var/log/X* files. > > Couple things

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 minimal install

2020-03-27 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 26 Mar, 2020 at 18:39:56 -0600, R C wrote: > well,  sorry,  I thought it was somewhat "self-explaining", since that > terminology was used up until Centos 7 (see > > links), andof course I meant the official download page. > > > minimal: as in approx 3Gb or so that fits on a regular 4-5G

[CentOS] CentOS 8

2020-03-27 Thread Jerry Geis
I have for CentOS 8 - totem and totem-pl-parser installed - but I cannot find the -devel packages for CentOS 8. Where are they ? Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 8 two installs one is X and one is Xwayland

2020-03-27 Thread Jerry Geis
HI All, I have two installs of CentOS 8. One is a VM and uses what sees as the OLD X as I get /var/log/X* files ... the other is on a real machine and seems to be using Xwayland and I have no /var/log/X* files. Couple things: 1) The VM is using qxl driver it seems. I do not see Xwayland running.