On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Pratul Kalia wrote:
Recently there was a thread about Mandriva being an easy to use,
beginner distro. And, I remember lawgon writing its not much used by
geeks, as it isn't hack friendly? :D
In response, let me ask the list, what distros do you recommend for
thanks Manish for LFS first time i hear about LFS
and verey much xcited to use it
:)
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Pratul Kalia wrote:
Recently there was a thread about Mandriva being an easy to use,
On 5/7/08, Pratul Kalia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think I would want a distro that has stupid support,
incomplete repos etc, because that's nice for hackers? (Yeah, he will
have to solve 12 problems just to boot, and compile everything from
source, lol)
Use gentoo, Once configured
meh... looks like Gentoo winning till now :) And no, I'm least
interested in the OS wars, I have battled many wars already ( rather,
sneakily exited them, like perl vs python, vim vs emacs ). This is
just everyone's POV.
cheers!
Pratul
( PS: vim sucks, Perl sucks, muhaha!)
--
dum vivimus,
abbe [~] chateau $ export |fgrep IM
This is what I get.
declare -x GTK_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge
declare -x QT_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge
declare -x XIM=SCIM
declare -x XIM_ARGS=-d
declare -x XIM_PROGRAM=
declare -x XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
Vikas
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ilugd
- 88
abbe [~] chateau $ export |fgrep IM
- 88
Ashish,
There seems to be some problem because of scim XIM support module does
not get loaded. I was trying to follow instructions at
http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/faq/general/why_xim_apps_does_not_work
The output for the
- 88
abbe [~] chateau $ export |fgrep IM
- 88
Perhaps one problem in my setup was that skim was also installed. I
have not removed it. The output of your commands now is as follows.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ . /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim-bridge
[EMAIL
This might be an ubuntu specific query.
I would like certain scripts to be run after an interface comes up(like
tun0) and another to be run after the interface goes down.
Now I am sure there is a mechanism to trap this, but for some frustating
reason am unable to find it. I would appreciate a
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
yes. Mandriva rocks big time in terms of hardware support, GUI tools
and Newbie friendliness.
Thanks for your feedback Kenneth. We have been discussing in ilug-tvm
(http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm) to promote Mandriva among
On 5/7/08, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This might be an ubuntu specific query.
I would like certain scripts to be run after an interface comes up(like
tun0) and another to be run after the interface goes down.
Now I am sure there is a mechanism to trap this, but for some
[snip]
Did you receive any response from their side?
nope.
I fear the same. They are going to go housefulls (as
long as {b,h,t,k}ollywood keeps churning out movies),
even if they miss a handful of Linux users.
well we are promoting open standards.
[snip]
Even when they don't have
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All,
Just wanted to share a quick update on my quest to reclaim M$
tax.
I have been following up with Lenovo customer care for past
few days (email and phone) and today I got a call from some
executive from
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Vikas == Vikas Rawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Vikas Perhaps one problem in my setup was that skim was also installed. I
Vikas have not removed it. The output of your commands now is as
Vikas follows.
abbe [~] chateau $ dpkg -l |awk
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 02:48:52AM +0530, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
abbe [~] chateau $ dpkg -l |awk '/(s(c|k)im|m17n)/ ! /uim/ { print $2 }'
libm17n-0
libm17n-dev
libscim8c2a
libskim0
m17n-db
scim
scim-bridge-agent
scim-bridge-client-gtk
scim-bridge-client-qt
scim-gtk2-immodule
On 08-May-08, at 12:18 AM, Anoop John wrote:
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
yes. Mandriva rocks big time in terms of hardware support, GUI tools
and Newbie friendliness.
Thanks for your feedback Kenneth. We have been discussing in ilug-tvm
+++ Jasbir Khehra [08/05/08 00:30 +0530]:
On 5/7/08, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This might be an ubuntu specific query.
I would like certain scripts to be run after an interface comes up(like
tun0) and another to be run after the interface goes down.
Now I am sure there
2008/5/7 Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The ultimate test of any distro is if it can play the ogg
files here:
http://arichuvadi.nrcfosshelpline.in/web/displaylesson/3/14/
afaik only Mandriva and Suse do it out of the box
It did not work in Firefox 3, but epiphany played it
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