Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 January 2003 23:08, Buchan Milne wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > On Friday 17 January 2003 17:10, Marcel Pol wrote: > > > But it limits you to X Window. So if you run a Mac, you need X Window > > > on there. The same with Windows. Als

Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 January 2003 17:10, Marcel Pol wrote: > But it limits you to X Window. So if you run a Mac, you need X Window on > there. The same with Windows. Also the server needs at least the X Window > libs installed. So you can call it a bit of overhead. That still leaves VNC as an option.:o)

Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 January 2003 13:46, Buchan Milne wrote: > My mom can't use ssh, but she can use sane-twain (well, just hit the > scan button) on Windows. So if I read correctly all that would be called for is an extra button "network scan" which has the commands (including login, etc.) for a remote

Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 January 2003 12:24, Marcel Pol wrote: > No need to run around with that scanner, and making sure you have drivers > installed on every machine. I was referring to a network with a scanner somewhere. Once the image is scanned it is 'de facto' accessible on the network as a file. > An

Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 January 2003 11:22, Marcel Pol wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:01:27 +0200 > > Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Speaking of scanners, someone needs to look at making saned (a killer > > application, sharing a scanner under windows is impossible, but can be > > done under lin

Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 January 2003 08:52, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > C.) DrakeFont is a GREAT, STUPENDIOUS tool, but it seems to choke fairly > >easily without explaination. For example, I have about 250 truetype fonts > >that I copied from my last Linux installation (also MDK

Re: [Cooker] Incorrect focus on install root password dialog

2003-01-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 19:01, Daouda LO wrote: > Frank Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When the root password dialog comes up, the password field does not > > have the focus. > > Not reproductible here :( > Is it kdesu or consolehelper ? what window manager are you running ? I can co

[Cooker] Mdk9.1beta1 on laptop with pcmcia-cdrom

2003-01-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hello all, Need some help here. My Fujitsu/Lifebook with external PCMCIA-cdrom will not boot correctly with the CD-ROM plugged in. Everything stops short at: "Starting system logger: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0028" ..a lot more

[Cooker] Mdk9.1b1 as update on 9.0

2003-01-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hello all, As the title states, I updated an old 9.0 partition with 9.1b1. Overall the impression is good running it. All the hardware works as it did before and even supermount works OK. I had to enable supermount on the command line though to get it to work. Is it disabled by default? What I