Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-17 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 17 Jun 2004 1:44 am, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:49:44 +0100 Strange it was, yes, but when I rebooted after removing the live CD, the first thing I noticed was that my bash prompt had changed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and simply rebooting did nothing. I

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-17 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:53:11 +0100 Richard Urwin disseminated the following: What's it like in the Twilight Zone? Well, that tune playing over and over in the background is kind of annoying, but otherwise it's not bad. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org 08:53:04 up 14 days, 19:15,

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-16 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 16 Jun 2004 9:36 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:52:15 -0700 Eric Huff disseminated the following: Maybe i'll give gnoppix a looksy, too. If you do, and when you reboot after trying it out your host name is fuxored, turn off your comp and leave it off for about a

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-16 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:49:44 +0100 Richard Urwin disseminated the following: If you do, and when you reboot after trying it out your host name is fuxored, turn off your comp and leave it off for about a minute. Apparently the settings can stay stuck in physical memory, learned this the

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 15:34, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 07:15:47PM -0700, Eric Huff wrote: I did try 2.6 on the livecd Gnoppix (like Knoppix, only Gnome instead of KDE), and I was *really* impressed at how fast it ran off the CD, and how user-friendly it was. It's very

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-14 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:15:29 -0400 Bryan Phinney disseminated the following: It's going to take heaps long for a desktop environment to get polished enough - not just candied up to hide the kluges and bandages. I've poured my heart and soul into linux - advocating it, pushing it, showing

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-14 Thread Eric Huff
I did try 2.6 on the livecd Gnoppix (like Knoppix, only Gnome instead of KDE), and I was *really* impressed at how fast it ran off the CD, and how user-friendly it was. It's very intuitive. I decided I'd wait until Mandrake packaged it, perhaps in 10.1? I am on 10.0: ~ $ uname -a Linux

[newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-13 Thread Stephen Kuhn
Ya would reckon that it would be rather easy enough to upgrade a software package - SUPPOSEDLY. I'm going through Gnome Hell. I remember a few years back downloading all of Gnome - was a bit big, but nothing compared to what it has grown and bloated to be. Last version I was happy with was Gnome

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Kuhn wrote: | KDE's website all | but vanished (surf to www.kde.com and see what I mean). Not that I disagree with much of the rest of your self-described rant, but what's wrong with going to www.kde.org ?? - -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-13 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 10:36, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Kuhn wrote: | KDE's website all | but vanished (surf to www.kde.com and see what I mean). Not that I disagree with much of the rest of your self-described rant, but what's wrong with

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-13 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Kuhn wrote: | On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 10:36, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: |Not that I disagree with much of the rest of your self-described rant, |but what's wrong with going to www.kde.org ?? | | Nothing, really - but still, all in all, the original