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

2003-01-18 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Marcel Pol wrote: > > Finally someone needs to add sane to the /etc/services file (or try and have > > the sane package mangle it in %post or something). > > Just patch the setup rpm? Yes, the preferred method if someone will do it. > The portnumber has recently been registe

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

2003-01-18 Thread Marcel Pol
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:41:41 +0200 (SAST) Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But saned is included in the sane-backends rpm. All that really needs to > be done is to make a subpackage which contains saned, /etc/xinetd.d/saned > (example in the man page) which creates the saned user in %pre.

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

2003-01-18 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > I just opted VNC as 'food for thought' not as a real option for your mom (or > mine)=:o) > > I can understand what you're getting at but this "killer App" thing gives me a > kind of retro feel. > A lot of trouble to create something a lot of people say th

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

2003-01-17 Thread Buchan Milne
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. Also the server needs at least the X Window > > libs installed. So you can call it a bit of o

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

2003-01-17 Thread Marcel Pol
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:38:26 + "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 17 January 2003 12:24, Marcel Pol wrote: > > And no need to login through ssh, use a commandline tool to scan (how do > > you view the preview?), then make it available over a fileserver or > > through scp. >

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

2003-01-17 Thread Brad Chamberlin
> It's not the just the fonts, it's MCC in general that's very unresponsive. > Even enabling the "log window" undrneath shows nought. > The only way to check is a glance at cpu and/or mem activity=:o( > > MCC needs a lot more polishing, imho. > > HarM > This is something that is going to need f

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

2003-01-17 Thread Marcel Pol
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:05:49 + "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > >

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

2003-01-17 Thread Marcel Pol
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 linux with some effort at present) easier to setup. > > [...] W