Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/25/2015 09:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> If people aren't actually going to test what we have, and file bug >> report, > > If you want to see this thing fixed, tested and see bug reports, then > publish updates on a regular basis. M

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-25 Thread Stephen Davies
In the very early days, the only way to get Linux components was by dialup download. There were no "distributions". It was everybody for themselves. If one had an issue, it was easy to email Linus or Alan Cox. I did a few ports in 1992/93 including things like gated and imapd and Alan and/or L

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/25/2015 09:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: If people aren't actually going to test what we have, and file bug report, If you want to see this thing fixed, tested and see bug reports, then publish updates on a regular basis. Monthly network installer iso images, for instance. Stability and

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/26/2015 04:43 AM, Dave Stevens wrote: Quoting jd1008 : I found https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ and https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/ and http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html But I cannot find any first CD iso releases. Thanks for a

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, jd1008 said: > I found > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ > and > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/ > and > http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html > > But I cannot find any first CD iso releases. Linus just does the kernel, n

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-25 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting jd1008 : I found https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ and https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/ and http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html But I cannot find any first CD iso releases. Thanks for any links. was it even on CD? My first slack

The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-25 Thread jd1008
I found https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ and https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/ and http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html But I cannot find any first CD iso releases. Thanks for any links. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/25/2015 03:27 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> But no, you were just being a discourteous >> person. > > > Actually, until you made it clear that one of your main reasons for posting > was to create dissension, You keep making these grandiose,

Qt 4.x -- Qt 5.x -- qtgrace -- segfault

2015-02-25 Thread Kevin Abbey
Hi, I've tried to build and run qtgrace on fedora 20 and it almost always segfaults. The only time it worked was within a remote desktop running in x2go. I have attempted with both Qt 4.x and 5.x from the fedora repo. qtgrace http://qtgrace.sourceforge.net/ I tried this posted solution bu

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2015 03:27 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: But no, you were just being a discourteous person. Actually, until you made it clear that one of your main reasons for posting was to create dissension, I've been very, very careful to remain civil and I intend to continue that way. I'm not saying

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/25/2015 03:15 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> No, my posts are designed to hold people accountable for things they >> say, and insist they provide facts, not mere opinions. If that demand >> just so happens to cause the conjecturing factless tro

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2015 03:15 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 02/25/2015 02:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: THAT'S THE F'N DEFINITION OF TROLLING. FACTLESS! No, trolling is making posts designed to get other people angry and cause dissention, which you've alrea

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/25/2015 02:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> THAT'S THE F'N DEFINITION OF TROLLING. FACTLESS! > > > No, trolling is making posts designed to get other people angry and cause > dissention, which you've already admitted to doing. No more food

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2015 02:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: By all means unleash your billy goat, because no doubt it can conduct a debate better than you have. Fine debaters, billy goats. I'll bet your billy goat has bugs filed before you do at this rate. Weird is anything you don't approve of. -- users maili

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2015 02:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: THAT'S THE F'N DEFINITION OF TROLLING. FACTLESS! No, trolling is making posts designed to get other people angry and cause dissention, which you've already admitted to doing. No more food for you, troll. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/25/2015 02:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> No in fact I love being wrong, it means I get to learn something new >> and I value that more than being right. But shadenfreude is delicious, >> so I also like causing dissonance in others when I

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/25/2015 02:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> So 75+ emails on a thread about how the installer can't do what you >> want, and it's actually based on uncertainty? You need more Pai Mei in >> your life. I have obviously been way, way too diplom

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2015 02:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: They are provided by default, they're hard dependencies by Anaconda. Thank you; as I've said, it's been years since I've needed to do a clean install of Fedora. As long as they're available, and as long as you can make whatever selections of mount

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2015 02:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: No in fact I love being wrong, it means I get to learn something new and I value that more than being right. But shadenfreude is delicious, so I also like causing dissonance in others when I think they're wrong. I see: you're simply a troll. Get back

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2015 02:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: So 75+ emails on a thread about how the installer can't do what you want, and it's actually based on uncertainty? You need more Pai Mei in your life. I have obviously been way, way too diplomatic and patient. One of the many things I like about Linux

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > An excellent point. If the needed CLI tools are provided by default, that's > all that's really needed, isn't it? (Having this mentioned either in the > installer's instructions or in the on-line Documentation would be a Good > Idea as well.)

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2015 02:05 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Why do you need a button in the installer? Why is ctrl-alt-f2 to get to a shell insufficient? An excellent point. If the needed CLI tools are provided by default, that's all that's really needed, isn't it? (Having this mentioned either in the inst

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/25/2015 01:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> I refuse your premise. The feature requesters have no champion >> offering to even create this hypothetical Expert Mode, therefore no >> one is refusing to patch bugs for something that doesn't eve

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2015 01:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: I refuse your premise. The feature requesters have no champion offering to even create this hypothetical Expert Mode, therefore no one is refusing to patch bugs for something that doesn't even exist. Just to be clear, do you mean "I refuse to accept y

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > An example could be something like this: a button which opens a shell with > fdisk or gparted or similar, wich then jumps back to anaconda when > partitioning > is done, which then rereads the disk layout and let me enter the mountpoints > wo

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/25/2015 12:14 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> One single button with 4000 lines of code behind it. You assume that >> providing full control in a GUI just happens magically as if that work >> is already done and the Anaconda folks are willfull

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2015 01:44 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: Since 21 there is no "complete" version. About the only way to not use live media is to use netinstall. So? Next time I do a clean install, that's what I'll use. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:23:32 -0800 Joe Zeff wrote: > I've had to do a clean install of Fedora, I've always used the complete > install version Since 21 there is no "complete" version. About the only way to not use live media is to use netinstall. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2015 01:14 PM, Mike Wohlgemuth wrote: I'm not clear how this is better than just running fdisk off the live image before running the installer, though. Well, what about those people who don't install from a live image? When I've had to do a clean install of Fedora, I've always used t

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Mike Wohlgemuth
On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 12:56 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 02/25/2015 12:46 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > > An example could be something like this: a button which opens a shell with > > fdisk or gparted or similar, > > I like that. If you don't know enough Linux to use those tools (or how > to read and

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2015 12:46 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: An example could be something like this: a button which opens a shell with fdisk or gparted or similar, I like that. If you don't know enough Linux to use those tools (or how to read and understand whatever help they give) you probably don't know en

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2015 12:14 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: One single button with 4000 lines of code behind it. You assume that providing full control in a GUI just happens magically as if that work is already done and the Anaconda folks are willfully disabling things. I doubt that. What we want is a way to

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 25.02.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: > One single button with 4000 lines of code behind it. You assume that > providing full control in a GUI just happens magically as if that work > is already done and the Anaconda folks are willfully disabling things. Not at all. An example could be something l

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/24/2015 05:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Ralf Corsepius >> wrote: > > >>> Similar restriction apply elsewhere. E.g. I have an older BIOS system >>> which >>> for (at least to me) unknown reasons ref

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 24.02.2015, jd1008 wrote: > >> Myself, I always know how to tell anaconda I will manually partition >> the drive, without resorting to external tools. >> But I cannot assume that ALL other people have the know-how to >> manually partition th

Re: computer boot (some times) in emergency mode.

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Angelo Moreschini < mrangelo.fed...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > my computer often (not all the time) has problem at booting ... > > When it happen, it boot to emergency mode... > > (after I install new updates, then this problem occurs regularly) > > The message th

Re: Fedora 20: After running yum update the Mate Terminal doesn't start anymore

2015-02-25 Thread Jim Lewis
> On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 12:49 -1000, Jim Lewis wrote: >> I ran "yum update" on my Fedora 20 system a few days ago. I normally >> don't do this as something always breaks and in this case it was the >> Mate-Terminal. > > I can't say that I have that experience, it's very rare that an update > break

Re: Where are libssl and libssl-dev/devel or their equivalents on fedora ?

2015-02-25 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/24/2015 06:14 AM, Aaron Gray wrote: sorry for the noise ! On 24 February 2015 at 11:48, Aaron Gray wrote: Hi, Where are libssl and libssl-dev/devel or their equivalents on fedora ? Sorry I am confused ! Many thanks in advance, The RPMs are openssl, openssl-libs, and openssl-devel.

Re: Fedora 20: After running yum update the Mate Terminal doesn't start anymore

2015-02-25 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 12:49 -1000, Jim Lewis wrote: > I ran "yum update" on my Fedora 20 system a few days ago. I normally > don't do this as something always breaks and in this case it was the > Mate-Terminal. I can't say that I have that experience, it's very rare that an update breaks something

Problems setting default mailer

2015-02-25 Thread Frank McCormick
I have been wrestling with setting the default mailer in Fedora 21 under mate. when I use xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler mailto mozilla-thunderbird.desktop It says the desktop environment is unknown. Can anyone tell me where the envronment under Mate is supposed to be set ? -

Re: Restoring the usual graphical boot panel

2015-02-25 Thread Ronal B Morse
On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 08:16 +, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > >> > >> After having installed the NVidia proprietary drivers, the usual boot > >> panel with a ball with an "F" in the middle does not show up anymore; > >> now, I get a bar at the bottom of

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/24/2015 05:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Similar restriction apply elsewhere. E.g. I have an older BIOS system which for (at least to me) unknown reasons refuses to boot from chained/cascaded grub partitions beyond some disk-limits.

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-25 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/25/15 17:48, Jens Neu wrote: > On 02/23/2015 05:18 PM, Tim wrote: >> On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 09:17 +, Andrew R Paterson wrote: >>> This poroblem occurs on other unices as well, try using the bg option >>> in your nfs fstab entry. >> Putting fstab entries in is really only useful for what I

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-25 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Jens Neu wrote: >> On 02/23/2015 10:17 AM, Andrew R Paterson wrote: >>> >>> This poroblem occurs on other unices as well, try using the bg option in >>> your nfs fstab entry. >> >> unfortunatley option bg does not re

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-25 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Jens Neu wrote: > On 02/23/2015 10:17 AM, Andrew R Paterson wrote: >> >> This poroblem occurs on other unices as well, try using the bg option in >> your nfs fstab entry. > > unfortunatley option bg does not resolve it. mount -a still is the way to > go. Pre-syste

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-25 Thread Jens Neu
On 02/23/2015 05:18 PM, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 09:17 +, Andrew R Paterson wrote: This poroblem occurs on other unices as well, try using the bg option in your nfs fstab entry. Putting fstab entries in is really only useful for what I consider to be permanently available shares (or

Re: nfs shares not mounted at boot

2015-02-25 Thread Jens Neu
On 02/23/2015 10:17 AM, Andrew R Paterson wrote: This poroblem occurs on other unices as well, try using the bg option in your nfs fstab entry. Andy unfortunatley option bg does not resolve it. mount -a still is the way to go. -Jens -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

computer boot (some times) in emergency mode.

2015-02-25 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi, my computer often (not all the time) has problem at booting ... When it happen, it boot to emergency mode... (after I install new updates, then this problem occurs regularly) The message that I get, when the problem come, are (approximately): Welcome to emergency

Re: F21 partitioning circus

2015-02-25 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.02.2015, jd1008 wrote: > Myself, I always know how to tell anaconda I will manually partition > the drive, without resorting to external tools. > But I cannot assume that ALL other people have the know-how to > manually partition their drives. A simple solution would be to do whatever is n

Re: Restoring the usual graphical boot panel

2015-02-25 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >> After having installed the NVidia proprietary drivers, the usual boot >> panel with a ball with an "F" in the middle does not show up anymore; >> now, I get a bar at the bottom of the screen, which increases its >> length as the booting activi

Re: Restoring the usual graphical boot panel

2015-02-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/25/2015 12:00 AM, Paul Smith wrote: After having installed the NVidia proprietary drivers, the usual boot panel with a ball with an "F" in the middle does not show up anymore; now, I get a bar at the bottom of the screen, which increases its length as the booting activity is progressing. Is

Restoring the usual graphical boot panel

2015-02-25 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, After having installed the NVidia proprietary drivers, the usual boot panel with a ball with an "F" in the middle does not show up anymore; now, I get a bar at the bottom of the screen, which increases its length as the booting activity is progressing. Is it possible to get back the usua