Re: Examples of customized grub2 configuration files?

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > I'm looking for examples (with explanatory comments) of > customized configuration files to use in the /etc/grub.d > directory, somewhere out there on the intertubes. > > Specifically, what I hope to add is a "11_single"

Re: Book/Paper technical illustrations - inkscape?

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I am considering Inkscape as a technical illustration > tool for latex documents (papers and book chapters). > Suggestions for better tools? > > I usually set up bash scripts (with lots of comments) > to automate the

Book/Paper technical illustrations - inkscape?

I am considering Inkscape as a technical illustration tool for latex documents (papers and book chapters). Suggestions for better tools? I usually set up bash scripts (with lots of comments) to automate the assembly of my documents, rather than use graphic environments like openoffice. I am NOT

Re: Scientific Linux 5 End of Life

On 03/31/2017 03:06 PM, Larry Linder wrote: We are still using SL 5.10 on a number of workstations. The users are used to using KDE with a lot of desktops - 12 or more. We switched a number of boxes to SL 6.8 and we get a lot of grumbles about desktop. We run VMWare and load applications that

Re: RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

On 05/04/17 11:50, David Sommerseth wrote: > ZFS looks great, so does btrfs - on the paper. But until ZFS is native > in Linux or btrfs stabilizes on the same level as ext4 and XFS, I'm not > going that path for production environments :) Just to be clear, when I say "ZFS is native in Linux" - I