Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 02:05 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote:
> And we've all be wondering why Windows doesn't "just work" for the last
> decade
I'm not. Their main problem was secrecy reigned even inside the box.
Everybody was developing its own little thing without seeing all the co
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 02:05 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote:
> So far, Fedora is the one that worked best for me. I'm sure, with a 3
> page list of do and don't, most Windows users could get it running.
> The question is "Would they go through a 3 page list?" Knowing that
> there will be a whole lot
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> I guess you do not understand the difference between Red Hat and
> Fedora. The two are not interchangeable. I expect Red Hat to acquire
> a user base through Red Hat Enterprise Linux. CentOS and Scientific
> Linux are two clones of RH Enterprise Linux, without the supp
gil...@altern.org wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
>> While it is important to you, and important to companies like
>> Red Hat,
>
> So, it's important for Red Hat and until now, your point was that it is
> irrelevant to Fedora because Fedora is for experts. So you expect RHEL to
> acquire a
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> While it is important to you, and important to companies like
> RedHat,
So, it's important for Red Hat and until now, your point was that it is
irrelevant to Fedora because Fedora is for experts. So you expect RHEL to
acquire a user base by people getting use to it th
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> David Boles wrote:
>
>> Fedora has its place. Fedora is a distribution for the user that is
>> smarter that what they are doing. The user that can solve a little
>> problem.
> ...
>> (K)Ubuntu has its place. They are distribution for the 'install it and
>> forget it' crowd.
gil...@altern.org wrote:
>
> I suppose you're not both wrong, but there are some considerations:
>
> 1) some peole need a story to get interest into a subject.
>
That is not usually the case on support lists.
> 2) teckies often write short messages and then come back with precisions.
> I prefer
David Boles wrote:
> Fedora has its place. Fedora is a distribution for the user that is
> smarter that what they are doing. The user that can solve a little
> problem.
...
> (K)Ubuntu has its place. They are distribution for the 'install it and
> forget it' crowd. They do all the setups and confi
gil...@altern.org wrote:
> But there's one *stoupid* thing that really puzzles me. When I rebooted
> after installation, I noticed there was no pause for choosing the kernel.
> I thought maybe that was because there was only one kernel installed.
Isn't this just the timeout setting in /etc/grub.c
Geoff wrote:
> And *that* answer does not work. My home dir was already 'user:user'.
> I have also confirmed the chcon context is now
> 'unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0' for /home/user
>
> And it doesn't work! Still get the error and no login.
Sorry it didn't work. I'd like to help you mo
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Very long emails are less likely to be read, especially when they're so
> discursive. You seem to be more interested in topics such as market
> share than actual technical content
Mikkel L. Ellertson thinks the same. I suppose you're not both wrong, but
there are some
Suvayu Ali wrote:
> *ubuntu is not that install and forget if you want to do something
> serious. I use Fedora 11 at home and Xubuntu 8.04 for work, and every
> time I try out something not conventional Fedora works flawlessly
> whereas Xubuntu fails big time. I hate it, but the management at our
Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Saturday 25 July 2009 08:34 AM, David Boles wrote:
>>
>> (K)Ubuntu has its place. They are distribution for the 'install it and
>> forget it' crowd. They do all the setups and configuration and all of
>> the nanny hand holding. This 'install it and forget it' crowd then sits
gil...@altern.org wrote:
R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Even better are the stupid messes where there is NO default setting to
> change. Google 'kstartupconfig4 error 3' No-one, and I mean no-one knows
> what causes this, or how to fix it.
It seems somebody at the Fedora Forum had the same problem
On Saturday 25 July 2009 08:34 AM, David Boles wrote:
(K)Ubuntu has its place. They are distribution for the 'install it and
forget it' crowd. They do all the setups and configuration and all of
the nanny hand holding. This 'install it and forget it' crowd then sits
in front of the monitor and '
R. G. Newbury wrote:
> >
> > It is the lack of documentation which makes Fedora (and Mandriva, and
> > Ubuntu) an OS for experts only.
> >
>You forgot Windows, OS x, and a few more.
>Mikkel
You are right. I did!
Geoff
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I
Very long emails are less likely to be read, especially when they're so
discursive. You seem to be more interested in topics such as market
share than actual technical content, which is the focus of this list. If
you have a technical question or comment, try to make it succintly.
Or maybe this is
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Saturday 25 July 2009 06:11:30 gil...@altern.org wrote:
>> jack craig wrote:
Really, pausing for a few seconds still seems to me like the best
option.
The way out is easier than I thought but when a newbie comes to Linux
and
he's already afraid b
On Saturday 25 July 2009 06:11:30 gil...@altern.org wrote:
> jack craig wrote:
> >> Really, pausing for a few seconds still seems to me like the best
> >> option.
> >> The way out is easier than I thought but when a newbie comes to Linux
> >> and
> >> he's already afraid because everybody says that
gil...@altern.org wrote:
> But there's one *stoupid* thing that really puzzles me. When I rebooted
> after installation, I noticed there was no pause for choosing the kernel.
> I thought maybe that was because there was only one kernel installed.
[the word is 'stupid', but i understand why of y
jack craig wrote:
>> Really, pausing for a few seconds still seems to me like the best
>> option.
>> The way out is easier than I thought but when a newbie comes to Linux
>> and
>> he's already afraid because everybody says that Fedora is for experts
>> only, he might not look further and give up.
R. G. Newbury wrote:
> On 07/24/2009 06:29 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote
>
>> I'm trying to figure out what our great experts would lose if there was
>> a
>> pause for choosing the kernel. If they don't like this setting, they
>> wouldn't have to use vi, just the Administration menu. All it takes
R. G. Newbury wrote:
>
> It is the lack of documentation which makes Fedora (and Mandriva, and
> Ubuntu) an OS for experts only.
>
You forgot Windows, OS x, and a few more.
Mikkel
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On 07/24/2009 09:43 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote:
I'm trying to figure out what our great experts would lose if there was
a
pause for choosing the kernel.
When booting, if you keep pressed the SHIFT key, you will have the grub
menu.
Interesting. It worked but only after a reset: o
>> I'm trying to figure out what our great experts would lose if there was
>> a
>> pause for choosing the kernel.
>
> When booting, if you keep pressed the SHIFT key, you will have the grub
> menu.
Interesting. It worked but only after a reset: on the reboot it just
blocked and stayed dead.
This
On 07/24/2009 06:29 PM, gil...@altern.org wrote
I'm trying to figure out what our great experts would lose if there was a
pause for choosing the kernel. If they don't like this setting, they
wouldn't have to use vi, just the Administration menu. All it takes is a
few seconds and, thereafter, the
On 07/24/2009 05:51 PM, Federico Sebastián De Malmayne Duppa wrote:
I'm trying to figure out what our great experts would lose if there was a
pause for choosing the kernel.
When booting, if you keep pressed the SHIFT key, you will have the grub menu.
Any other key may work, but shift was told
> I'm trying to figure out what our great experts would lose if there was a
> pause for choosing the kernel.
When booting, if you keep pressed the SHIFT key, you will have the grub menu.
Any other key may work, but shift was told to be the safest one.
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