Re: [vox-tech] gentoo's "portage" vs. debian's "apt-get"

2003-11-04 Thread Dmitriy
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:24:22PM -0800, Michael J Wenk wrote: > > > > A downside: there's no corporation behind Debian, so some complex things > > can take a long time to get upgraded. They're still testing out XFree > > 4.3 for example, not yet ready to upload it into Debian/unstable. > > >

Re: [vox-tech] Qt/C++ libraries question

2003-11-04 Thread Matt Holland
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 01:22 AM, David Margolis wrote: Hello, I don't know if there are many Qt developers on this list, but this seems like it might be more of a C++/gcc question anyway. I have built a Qt app on my Linux box that _should_ run on Mac OSX. To do this I am supposed to

Re: [vox-tech] gentoo's "portage" vs. debian's "apt-get"

2003-11-04 Thread Michael J Wenk
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:12:08AM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:06:14AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote: > > It is time for me to move away from RedHat. At the moment, I am > > considering Gentoo and Debian (with the libranet installer). > > > > A distribution specific feat

Re: [vox-tech] gentoo's "portage" vs. debian's "apt-get"

2003-11-04 Thread Michael J Wenk
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:06:14AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote: > It is time for me to move away from RedHat. At the moment, I am > considering Gentoo and Debian (with the libranet installer). > > A distribution specific feature I consider important is the method for > installing and updating

Re: [vox-tech] gentoo's "portage" vs. debian's "apt-get"

2003-11-04 Thread Ken Bloom
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:06:14AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote: > It is time for me to move away from RedHat. At the moment, I am > considering Gentoo and Debian (with the libranet installer). > > A distribution specific feature I consider important is the method for > installing and updating

Re: [vox-tech] gentoo's "portage" vs. debian's "apt-get"

2003-11-04 Thread Rod Roark
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:25 am, Edward Elliott wrote: > Jonathan, I've been using Gentoo as my introduction to Linux. I'll give you a > newbies perspective. > > 1) I installed from Live CD. The docs are reasonable and eventually even I got it > working. > 2) Portage is amazingly simple and

Re: [vox-tech] Qt/C++ libraries question

2003-11-04 Thread R. Douglas Barbieri
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:22:56AM -0800, David Margolis wrote: > Hello, > > I don't know if there are many Qt developers on this list, but this seems > like it might be more of a C++/gcc question anyway. I don't really consider myself a "Qt developer", but I have written one app using the QT lib

Re: [vox-tech] gentoo's "portage" vs. debian's "apt-get"

2003-11-04 Thread Edward Elliott
Jonathan, I've been using Gentoo as my introduction to Linux. I'll give you a newbies perspective. 1) I installed from Live CD. The docs are reasonable and eventually even I got it working. 2) Portage is amazingly simple and works well. It also lets you override and customize anything and every

[vox-tech] gentoo's "portage" vs. debian's "apt-get"

2003-11-04 Thread Jonathan Stickel
It is time for me to move away from RedHat. At the moment, I am considering Gentoo and Debian (with the libranet installer). A distribution specific feature I consider important is the method for installing and updating software. I know that Debian uses "apt-get", and I have seen a number of

[vox-tech] Qt/C++ libraries question

2003-11-04 Thread David Margolis
Hello, I don't know if there are many Qt developers on this list, but this seems like it might be more of a C++/gcc question anyway. I have built a Qt app on my Linux box that _should_ run on Mac OSX. To do this I am supposed to statically link the qt library. 1. I don't know how I am supposed

Re: [vox-tech] Serial on RedHat 9?

2003-11-04 Thread Mark K. Kim
First off, the Linux kernel can't auto-detect the IRQ of the serial port, so it won't show up on /proc/interrupts ever (it *might* show up while you're using the port.) The I/O port, too, is not really auto-detectable. Linux can query the BIOS, but the BIOS can often be unreliable so I'm not

Re: [vox-tech] Serial on RedHat 9?

2003-11-04 Thread Mitch Patenaude
also, see whether your kernel is recognizing the serial port with dmesg|grep ttyS No joy... this is beginning to sound like a PnP problem... I hate PnP, and it's nonsensical for things like com ports. Turned out that the BIOS had it set to "Disabled", (though it still worked under XP.. go figure)

Re: [vox-tech] Serial on RedHat 9?

2003-11-04 Thread Mitch Patenaude
On Monday, Nov 3, 2003, at 23:24 US/Pacific, Ken Bloom wrote: check out your kernel configuration files (which list the options your kernel was compiled with) in /boot and look for CONFIG_SERIAL I forgot that the config file was in /boot... CONFIG_SERIAL=y So it should be in there.. also, see whet

Re: [vox-tech] Serial on RedHat 9?

2003-11-04 Thread Ken Bloom
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:24:43PM -0800, Mitch Patenaude wrote: > I've got a generic, straight, generic RH 9.0 install on my IBM thinkpad > T20, and it appears that it doesn't have serial drivers in the kernel > by default, and I can't even figure out which drivers I should load. > > (lsmod doe