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Posted: 07 Sep 2007 05:30 AM PDT

On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:30:33 +0000, zeno wrote:
 
Zeroing in on the definitions...
Suse, RedHat, and others are GNU/Linux distributions. A GNU/Linux
distribution contains the Linux kernel and the GNU toolset which
eanable it to function as a Unix-like OS. There are several officially
certified Unices; AFAIK, no GNU/Linux distribution has received official
Unix certification. Sun's Solaris is a certified Unix. The wikipedia
is your friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Unix.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like

Licenses...
The development process for GNU/Linux uses an open source model, with the
GPL license at the core of its success, IMO. Until recently, Sun has used
a totally closed-source development process. Now, it has released
OpenSolaris which has some desirable features, but without totally
adopting a GPL philosophy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribution_License

Choices...
As for me, I use GNU/Linux because it gives the stability and features
that I need, which includes the freedom to use it as I see fit.

GNU/Linux had a relatively slow start, with some "ugly" interfaces along
the way. The OS has momentum now with more and more developers, software
projects, and new hardware devices joining the GNU/Linux camp everyday.
The "face" that GNU/Linux presents to the world is also a lot prettier
today than several years ago. (More Cover Girl makeup?) It has some fancy
3-D GUIs available via Beryl, or just a clean, nicely rendered user
desktop as typified by the XFCE project. Be advised that if you
are used to the "one-size fits all" approach offered by MS, then you could
be confused by the wealth of choices:

MS: "What's a firefox and why would you use that if our sweet, little IE
is available?"

Be advised that that GNU/Linux still does not adhere to that approach.
The user is assumed to be educated enough to use the tool which is most
appropriate for a given task. If there is no tool available which fits the
need, then new projects spring up to fill the void.

--
Douglas Mayne

Mouse trouble --- XUbuntu on a Pentium1

Posted: 06 Sep 2007 12:55 PM PDT

Roby wrote:
 

Re-reading your post, I see you are trying to get the live
CD running. Same instructions as above - except don't
reboot. Instead, restart X by ctrl-alt-backspace. The
"reboot" is for fixing HD install.

I have pentium 1 with 96mb and serial mouse running XUbuntu
6.06. Not terribly speedy, but it does work, even the mouse!

real time clock running at double speed

Posted: 04 Sep 2007 02:14 AM PDT

On Wed, 05 Sep 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<JcxDi.1585$6T5.996@trnddc06>, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
 
 

Your physical reaction time is good - about a third of a percent error.
I'm lucky to be within a tenth of a second.
 

I don't know. Most of the problems I've seen are on single threaded
systems, and I'm not sure how that relates to the problem, as this is
supposed to be an SMP kernel option.

Old guy

System doesn't boot, disk problem?

Posted: 03 Sep 2007 09:09 AM PDT

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:13:16 +0000, eric wrote:
 

Well, I've never had a bad keyboard, but since everything is working with
the new one, I wouldn't concern myself too much. If you want to confirm
it's really the keyboard, swap it on someone else's working system and
see what happens.

Things do break. One session everything is fine, but on the next
boot.... Nothing. Have had it happen several times. Ultimately, the
problems were traced to n chips on the motherboard, bad power supply
voltage output, intermittently going bad CPU, overheating CPU, etc.

Why did you use IDE2 instead of IDE0 for your hard drive? Your only one,
right? Just curious. A few years ago, if you had done that, your system
wouldn't have booted. Then, you were required to have the boot drive on
IDE0.

Stef

Linux preferred. How to deal with pre-installed Vista ... or justforget about it?

Posted: 03 Sep 2007 02:10 AM PDT

Ton 't Lam wrote: 

And you are aware you can buy external drive cases and even just the power and
converter cables even cheaper? I have a SATA drive without a case that just sets
on top the computer. Cooler than in a case.

--
If foreign troops were running loose in the US Americans would be killing
them. I have no idea why Americans are ed when Iraqis do the same thing.
-- The Iron Webmaster, 3857
nizkor http://www.giwersworld.org/nizkook/nizkook.phtml
Yes Virginia http://www.giwersworld.org/holo3/virginia-holocaust.phtml a14

"Waiting for root filesystem" on new kernel.

Posted: 02 Sep 2007 04:07 AM PDT

 

A bare 2.6.22 from kernel.org

 

Yeah, I thought of that after I hung up, but I will have to wait till I
get to a broadband line to download the stock Debian source.

But I am beginning to think that it is a problem with this shuttle. First
off, the BIOS comes up with the message "For engineering use only - Not
for production use".

Second, there is no BIOS entry whatsoever for the onboard ethernet port.
And Debian can't see it and so far none of my probing has found it,
although I get a connect light when I hook it to the switch.

Third, the BIOS indicates that there are 3 IDE channels in the machine,
but there is actually only one IDE channel and 2 sata connectors.

Forth, there is nothing about Sata in the BIOS - period. The BIOS thinks
that the existing Sata drive is the master on the non-existant second IDE
channel. Probably the reason that initrd is looking in the wrong place.

It almost appears like the machine was delivered with a pre production
BIOS. When I get to work tomorrow I will go to Shuttle.com and see what I
can see. If nothing, they will get the machine back.

Thanks
JP

Q: Cluster File System Reliability

Posted: 01 Sep 2007 01:50 PM PDT

On Sep 1, 5:50 pm, nicc777 <com> wrote: 

Hi,
Take a look at http://freshmeat.net/projects/chironfs/
Except [yet] for the resync part, it may worth a try.

Hope it helps,
Alex

Linux Distro

Posted: 01 Sep 2007 01:36 PM PDT

Douglas Mayne wrote: 

If XFS can figure out how to do data journaling and not just
metadata, then fine. Otherwise, a mere temporary glitch could
cause some "bad" data loss.

PATH takes no effect when login

Posted: 01 Sep 2007 12:30 AM PDT

Sheep wrote: 

You're executing ~/test.env not sourcing it. Change the line to

. ~/test.env

/dan

3C515 - Knoppix 5 - setup

Posted: 31 Aug 2007 09:17 AM PDT

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<196.97.136>, John Smith wrote:
 
 

That's good
 

I guess
 
 

Card is not being configured - none of the configure lines are uncommented.
 

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 158620 Aug 13 13:17 Plug-and-Play-HOWTO

Updated just over two weeks ago. Previous version was dated Feb. 20, 2006.
 

Yeah - the kernel can't find the card, because Plug N Pray didn't work
correctly.
 

This only shows the IRQs for stuff that is being used by the kernel. As
the card isn't configured, it doesn't show up. This would be the same for
the serial ports, which only show when in use.
 

Same basic idea - card isn't configured in PnP, so it's not showing up
here either.

On your followup, you write:
 

which is a PCI card, and much more capable than the ISA card (even
assuming that you were able to get it to configure).
 

Windoze has a greater number of drivers, and consequently can't include
them all in the basic install. That's an advantage and a disadvantage as
you have found.

Old guy

Damn this is frustrating

Posted: 30 Aug 2007 04:22 PM PDT

Ohhhh, So gonna love this. I got to the Nvidia installer window and it gave
me an error, something to do with the Kernal. The installation aborted and
I'm back at the command line. Restart X with the "gdm start" and I get this
message that X can't start due to a problem with the video driver, which
refered to the xorg.conf file. Opened the xorg.conf file using vi. The
sections for "Device", "Monitor", and "Screen" were changed. I swear I didn't
edit the file before. I was going to by a procedure I found on a website but
decided to do a little more digging and found that procedure wouldn't solve
my problem. I called it up in gedit once in read only mode to look at the
video sections. I made a backup copy of xorg.conf, at least I thought sure I
did, before I went and messed with the driver install, but I can't seem to
find it.

Is there a way to force a re-identify of my video card & monitor, or restore
the original video drivers, from the command line?

OR - I'm boned, inseret CD, install? :-)