Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] MAC file sharing

2016-04-04 Thread Jose Marques
> On 3 Apr 2016, at 17:32, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > If you need better authentication, then look into CIFS (which Linux > and various network appliances use Samba to publish), or possibly > NFSv4 (which has much better user authentication than NFSv3, but is > more complex to set up). I woul

Re: Linux GUI use of a touchpad laptop without physical buttons

2016-04-04 Thread D Greig
On 03/04/16 23:54, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: The typical Linux GUI uses a pointing device with three buttons; the center button can be emulated on two button pointing devices by simultaneously depressing both buttons. (Some track balls only have two butto

Re: Linux on HP consumer laptop

2016-04-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: > The Ubuntu LTS ("stable" "server" "hardened" "enterprise" distro) > bootable DVD actually works in the consumer HP laptop my wife may have > to use. > > The kernel Ubuntu LTS uses is: > > 4.2.0-35.40~14.04.1 That's because you installed 14.0

Re: Linux on HP consumer laptop

2016-04-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Brandon Vincent wrote: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: >> >> In this regard, is anyone using Ubuntu LTS in a production environment? Is >> it fact both stable and (reasonably) hardened (e.g., not a >> consume/enthusiast product such as >> MS W

Re: Linux on HP consumer laptop

2016-04-04 Thread Yasha Karant
On 04/04/2016 07:02 AM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: The Ubuntu LTS ("stable" "server" "hardened" "enterprise" distro) bootable DVD actually works in the consumer HP laptop my wife may have to use. The kernel Ubuntu LTS uses is: 4.2.0-35.40~14.04.1 That'