Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-14 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Hi, I have a friend who works on KDE a lot. I had a chat with him last night about some of the issues that have been mentioned here, and I am going to write about our conversation in my LinuxProMagazine blog. But since Greg has found out some things, and made the comment about Gee it would be

[GNHLUG] PySIG for November -- yes indeed, altho moved to Tuesday (the 23rd)

2008-11-14 Thread Bill Sconce
Hi, all - I stopped by the ABI, and we're in luck for moving our 4th Thursday to 4th Tuesday this month to get away from Thanksgiving. So, PySIG is ON, Tuesday the 23rd, 7:00PM at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester. Agenda to follow. If we have one.(*)

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2008-11-14 Thread Ted Roche
Lloyd Kvam wrote: My daughter's laptop has a failing disk drive. I've backed up her data. The laptop is old enough that we want to replace it. I'm looking for suggestions as to where I can get a reasonable laptop with Ubuntu or simply bare. I can handle the Ubuntu installation. I have

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2008-11-14 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 20:24 -0500, Nikkiana H. wrote: Actually, Dell does sell them on the web, you just have to go to the right second on the website to find it. (In the Laptops Mini dropdown nav, it's under Open Source PCs). If you try to go through the selector thing on the main page, the

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2008-11-14 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 08:04 -0500, Ted Roche wrote: Lloyd Kvam wrote: My daughter's laptop has a failing disk drive. I've backed up her data. The laptop is old enough that we want to replace it. I'm looking for suggestions as to where I can get a reasonable laptop with Ubuntu or simply

YDL (RHAT) etc/sysconfig/desktop

2008-11-14 Thread bruce . labitt
I am trying to get vnc-server running on my Cell Blade which runs YDL. Since the blade has no video, there was no default window manager installed. When I run gvncviewer on my ubuntu box - all I get is twm == yuck. That is one of the worst wm's I have ever encountered. Guess I am spoiled by

Re: YDL (RHAT) etc/sysconfig/desktop

2008-11-14 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:13 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get vnc-server running on my Cell Blade which runs YDL. Since the blade has no video, there was no default window manager installed. When I run gvncviewer on my ubuntu box - all I get is twm == yuck. That is one of

Re: YDL (RHAT) etc/sysconfig/desktop

2008-11-14 Thread Shawn O'Shea
I think I know how to set PREFERRED, I was wondering if desktop had any other settings. On a standard Red Hat system, the /etc/sysconfig files are part of the initscripts package. The documentation for this packages includes a document about setting for the sysconfig scripts. On a local box,

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2008-11-14 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least we managed to avoid buying an unwanted Windows license. The question is, did you avoid paying for it anyway? I've noticed in the past that many PCs being sold without a Windows license cost the same as the ones

Adding custom tags to RPMs

2008-11-14 Thread Dan Jenkins
Does anyone know if it is possible to add user-created custom tags to RPMs when creating them? Thanks. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

RE: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Pelletier
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/ The original Windows Refund Day, February 15, 1999. I'm not sure if I made it into one of those photos - that might be the back of my head at the upper left of the photo of Eric Raymond. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From:

Re: Adding custom tags to RPMs

2008-11-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
Does anyone know if it is possible to add user-created custom tags to RPMs when creating them? I don't quite understand what you're asking for but you can cause rpm to generate a list of all possible tags thus: rpm --querytags ...some of which can (I believe) be specified in .spec file

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2008-11-14 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:53 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least we managed to avoid buying an unwanted Windows license. The question is, did you avoid paying for it anyway? I've noticed in the past that many PCs being

Re: Adding custom tags to RPMs

2008-11-14 Thread Dan Jenkins
Michael ODonnell wrote: Dan Jenkins wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to add user-created custom tags to RPMs when creating them? I don't quite understand what you're asking for but you can cause rpm to generate a list of all possible tags thus: rpm --querytags

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-14 Thread Greg Rundlett
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a friend who works on KDE a lot. I had a chat with him last night about some of the issues that have been mentioned here, and I am going to write about our conversation in my LinuxProMagazine blog. Thanks

Re: Adding custom tags to RPMs

2008-11-14 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:07 -0500, Dan Jenkins wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to add user-created custom tags to RPMs when creating them? Thanks. Like repotags? i.e., build a custom kernel, and install of calling it kernel-2.6.18-123.el5, calling it kernel-2.6.18-123.el5.local?

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2008-11-14 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:53 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: The question is, did you avoid paying for it anyway? Vista Home Premium appears to add $30 to the cost. The Vista laptop allows for some lower cost options that are not available in the Ubuntu configurations. Once all the hardware got

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-14 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I will write the article, pass it past my friend for his o.k. on accuracy and some URLs, and when I get it posted I will let you know. md ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Adding custom tags to RPMs

2008-11-14 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:50 -0500, Dan Jenkins wrote: Michael ODonnell wrote: Dan Jenkins wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to add user-created custom tags to RPMs when creating them? I don't quite understand what you're asking for but you can cause rpm to generate

Re: YDL (RHAT) etc/sysconfig/desktop

2008-11-14 Thread Darrell Michaud
You may wish to consider not using a window manager at all. You may be able to do everything you need on an ssh console. Or if you must run something graphical, you may be able to use X11 forwarding over SSH back to your normal desktop. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get vnc-server

Re: Adding custom tags to RPMs

2008-11-14 Thread Dan Jenkins
Jarod Wilson wrote: Ah. So ignore my prior post. There was some discussion along these lines on the fedora devel mailing list a little while back, and iirc, the answer was that you could really only do this by code changes to rpm itself. Otherwise, rpm won't know to store the info in that tag

Re: YDL (RHAT) etc/sysconfig/desktop

2008-11-14 Thread bruce . labitt
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Re: YDL (RHAT) etc/sysconfig/desktop

2008-11-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
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Re: YDL (RHAT) etc/sysconfig/desktop

2008-11-14 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 12:17 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Darrell Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Darrell Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11/14/2008 01:23PM cc: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: YDL (RHAT)

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2008-11-14 Thread Greg Rundlett
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:53 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: The question is, did you avoid paying for it anyway? Vista Home Premium appears to add $30 to the cost. I've noticed many vendors offering a Windows XP downgrade for an