On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 01:04, Myles Green wrote:
$50 Million Private Investment Transaction Led by BayStar Capital
Provides SCO With Funding for Future Software Development, SCOx Web
Services Partnerships And Acquisitions, Future Licensing Opportunities
and the Protection of the Company's
I read somewhere else that Baystar has a history of investing in companies whose prime
focus is suing other companies over IP rights. So this must be a lucrative business.
Afterall, it is driving up SCO stock prices.
-Original Message-
From: burns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday,
Hi,
I'm installing Linux on a laptop for a friend - P4 1.8, 256 MB DDR,
Radeon 7500, it's really a pretty nice laptop.
Redhat hates it, it hates Redhat (countless bugs, sound-related,
scanning-related, PPP related, etc. both in 9.0 and I even tried the
latest Severn and I don't feel like
On Friday 17 October 2003 12:20 pm, Robert E. Raymond wrote:
Hi,
I'm installing Linux on a laptop for a friend - P4 1.8, 256 MB DDR,
Radeon 7500, it's really a pretty nice laptop.
How 'bout Caldera OpenLinux 3.1??;-)
(slap)
--
Tony Alfrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd Rather Be Sailing
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:20:23 +
Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SNIP!
Rehat is too buggy.
Gentoo takes too long.
Debian leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth.
You don't want to pay for SuSE.
You also want Ease of use after installation, lack of show-stopping bugs (i.e. no
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:20:23 +
Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm installing Linux on a laptop for a friend - P4 1.8, 256 MB DDR,
Radeon 7500, it's really a pretty nice laptop.
Redhat hates it, it hates Redhat (countless bugs, sound-related,
scanning-related, PPP
Terence McCarthy wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:20:23 +
Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SNIP!
Rehat is too buggy.
Gentoo takes too long.
Debian leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth.
You don't want to pay for SuSE.
You also want Ease of use after installation, lack of
I belive it was Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] who wrote:
snippage
Slackware looks like my best option right now... as I've got the
Slackware LiveCD loaded on there right now, and it's really fast and
really nice looking (it's actually faster than Redhat was running off
the disk).
David A. Bandel wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:20:23 +
Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snipped
Debian... I'm also willing to try it... but I just have a bad taste in
my mouth after the last time I tried it (though that was several years
ago- I just hated having to wait for up
I belive it was David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] who wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:20:23 +
Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Slackware looks like my best option right now... as I've got the
Slackware LiveCD loaded on there right now, and it's really fast and
really
On Friday 17 October 2003 4:23 pm, someone claiming to be Robert E. Raymond
wrote:
Terence McCarthy wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:20:23 +
Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SNIP!
Rehat is too buggy.
Gentoo takes too long.
Debian leaves you with a bad taste in your
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 16:23, Robert E. Raymond wrote:
Terence McCarthy wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:20:23 +
Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SNIP!
Rehat is too buggy.
Gentoo takes too long.
Debian leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth.
You don't want to pay
Myles Green wrote:
I belive it was Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] who wrote:
snippage
Slackware looks like my best option right now... as I've got the
Slackware LiveCD loaded on there right now, and it's really fast and
really nice looking (it's actually faster than Redhat was running off
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
A prime candidate for Lindows?
Perhaps Xandros...
There's also Redmond Linux, or whatever they're calling it now.
--
~~
Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've recently tried Mandrake 9.1 - installed like a dream. No serious bugs
yet. The KDE setup is very different from eD2.4 (my previous distro),
especially if you try tweaking some of the preferences. I'd definitely
give it a thumbs up overall.
Mark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/17/2003
On Friday 17 October 2003 3:51 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
A prime candidate for Lindows?
Perhaps Xandros...
There's also Redmond Linux, or whatever they're calling it now.
Lycoris. It's based on COL 3.1, isn't it?
Wasn't Joe Cheek on
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:43:00 + Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Myles Green wrote:
I belive it was Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] who wrote:
snippage
Slackware looks like my best option right now... as I've got the
Slackware LiveCD loaded on there right now, and it's
Bob Raymond wrote inter alia:
Debian... I'm also willing to try it... but I just have a bad taste in
my mouth after the last time I tried it (though that was several years
ago- I just hated having to wait for up to date versions to make it into
stable, which I'm definitely going to be using on
Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
Bob Raymond wrote inter alia:
Debian... I'm also willing to try it... but I just have a bad taste in
my mouth after the last time I tried it (though that was several years
ago- I just hated having to wait for up to date versions to make it into
stable, which I'm
Robert E. Raymond wrote:
Terence McCarthy wrote:
Rehat is too buggy.
I'm using Red Hat 9.0 on my laptop. I have to admit that if you're
installing Red Hat, it can be a real pain ! The reasons are :
1. Mozilla -- If you want the latest, you will have problems with Flash
(the one from
Chong Yu Meng wrote:
Robert E. Raymond wrote:
Terence McCarthy wrote:
Rehat is too buggy.
I'm using Red Hat 9.0 on my laptop. I have to admit that if you're
installing Red Hat, it can be a real pain ! The reasons are :
1. Mozilla -- If you want the latest, you will have problems with
Bob Raymond wrote:
Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
> Bob Raymond wrote inter alia:
>
>>Debian... I'm also willing to try it... but I just have a bad taste in
>>my mouth after the last time I tried it (though that was several years
>>ago- I just hated having to wait for up to date versions to make it
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Collins Richey wrote:
Lycoris (Debian based) is supposed to be good also, but once again not free.
Unless they really changed direction, Lycoris is based on Caldera, not
Debian.
--
~~
Lonni J Friedman
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Robert E. Raymond wrote:
1. Mozilla -- If you want the latest, you will have problems with
Flash (the one from Macromedia did not work when I tried it some
months back. May be fixed by now though) and Java (Using Sun,
Blackdown or IBM? Remember that for the Plug-In to
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:39:19 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Collins Richey wrote:
Lycoris (Debian based) is supposed to be good also, but once again not free.
Unless they really changed direction, Lycoris is based on Caldera, not
Debian.
Yeah, that
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:35:58 -0400 Leon A. Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Bob Raymond wrote:
Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
Bob Raymond wrote inter alia:
Debian... I'm also willing to try it... but I just have a bad taste in
my mouth after the last time I tried it (though that was
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:35:58 -0400 Leon A. Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Bob Raymond wrote:
Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
Bob Raymond wrote inter alia:
Debian... I'm also willing to try it... but I just have a bad taste in
my mouth after the last time I tried it (though that was
Collins Richey wrote:
One final shot on this. Leon, I know you have used libranet for a long time.
Does libranet get around the debian stable = hopelessly antequated problem
pretty well, i.e. relatively current packages are available?
I'll second Leon's Libranet recommendation. And Yes, the
i have a very long pdf file, several pages of which i would like to be
able to save to a separate pdf file. i can find no way of doing this
without buying very expensive software. does anyone know of a way to do
this? acrobat reader has no provision for it that i can find, and for
some reason
You could always print the pages to postscript, and then open it with
ghostview.
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, dep wrote:
i have a very long pdf file, several pages of which i would like to be
able to save to a separate pdf file. i can find no way of doing this
without buying very expensive software.
quoth Net Llama!:
| You could always print the pages to postscript, and then open it with
| ghostview.
that i have done. i've even used ps2pdf to make the resulting file into
a .pdf. but the thing has big black bands across every page when opened
with acrobat. the whole purpose is to make it
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:57:29 -0700 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Collins Richey wrote:
One final shot on this. Leon, I know you have used libranet for a long time.
Does libranet get around the debian stable = hopelessly antequated problem
pretty well, i.e. relatively current
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:17:29 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quoth Net Llama!:
| You could always print the pages to postscript, and then open it with
| ghostview.
that i have done. i've even used ps2pdf to make the resulting file into
a .pdf. but the thing has big black bands across
Collins Richey wrote:
Thanks for the additional info. If you get the paid-up version, does libranet
provide updates from time to time to keep you up to date, or do you have to
monitor the debian sites to find out what's going on?
They do provide some packages, but mostly the available updates
On Friday 17 October 2003 05:49 pm, Collins Richey's voice rose above
the ones in my head and stated:
So the choices are free/not-free, good/sloppy, quick/slow. You may
not find an optimal answer.
Kinda like the old you can get it good and fast but it ain't gonna be
cheap. You can get it
Hi All,
Ever since I posted a message to the Smallville newsgroup (yes, I watch
that stuff. If you didn't grow up watching Christopher Reeve as Superman
and Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman, well, you wouldn't understand), I've
been getting a lot of spam mail. As I am on a Linux machine, the
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