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So many kernel 2.6.x branches! - Forums Linux

So many kernel 2.6.x branches!

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 04:37 PM PDT

And so it was that in the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.setup, Marco A. Cruz Quevedo <com> uttered the following pearls of wisdom: 

Because when 2.6 came out they decided to ditch the odd number/even number
development system, we might never get to 2.8 or 3.0.
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Identification 32/64 bit Linux

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 01:55 AM PDT

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: 

mine says 3.9GB.

cheapest intel board I could buy. Dual core celeron. Debian lenny.

(Vista + Ubuntu) + Fedora

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 10:36 AM PDT

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:48:30 +0200, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
 

I thought you just had to run a grub update to have it autho do this?
(caveat late to conversation) 

It isn't in /boot/grub? (location in debian linx that ubuntu derives from)

Note grub 1 and grub 2 have different files

Issue: Different space usage results for df and du for /homepartition

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 03:59 AM PDT

bzaman wrote: 

Repeating advice already given in this thread -

lsof | grep /home

will tell you all processes that have files open on the partition.
The list will even include processes that have deleted files open.

lsof - One of the sysadmin wonder tools. Like find and ls it has a
command line whose man page goes on for days. It is *well* worth
spending the days it takes to learn it.

x-window dumps have extraneous data

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 06:47 PM PDT

ix an unnecessary 

sheesh

he's a know troll (and idiot)
just put in in your killfile like most here have done

asterisk..any use for home users?

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 09:09 AM PDT

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 

Plus he asked about a week ago in c.o.l.m.

For any open source project, there are two options that take you where
you want to be most of the time.

www.<project-name>.org
and/or
<project-name>.sf.net

For asterisk, they both work.

Cannot mount previously mounted USB HD

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 06:02 AM PDT

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:52:57 -0400, Unruh <ubc.ca> wrote:
 

That is not quite correct. When I was first experimenting with lvm,
I used pvcreate to create a physical volume on an entire usb drive
(after I'd erased the the mbr). I later rebooted the system into
xp home, and found out the hard way, that xp will put a partition
table on any removable devices that don't have one. It doesn't let
you know it's doing this, it just does it. It won't do this if the
pv takes up an entire hard drive, but it will do it on a removable
drive.

Linux/lvm will not overwrite the first sector, but xp will.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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keyboard configuration (YDL/Fedora)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 10:07 AM PDT

John Goche wrote: 

Yep I did exactly the same. Tried the command line programs, no joy
except for consoles. Xorg.conf was essentially empty. Finally found a
gnome tool that set the X up in gnome, for exactly my keyboard. Never
found where it wrote the info. Wasn't in xorg.conf. I had a Sidney
moment then ;-)

Gui for Ubuntu server

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 01:25 PM PDT

MCR wrote:
 

He lacks the skills, education or intelligence to do it, so it's like
the old saying "Yelling -- the next best thing to being right!".
Anyway, like many, I've since added Sid to my ignore list. Seeing his
posts is just like seeing spam, it doesn't do any good to see or
respond (he's not going to go away, ever).
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Not really a wanna-be, but I don't know everything.

Corporate creep in Linux? (mini-rantette)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 08:51 PM PDT

On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:51:48 -0400, Keith Keller
<san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
 

Yeah, I guess, since you're me, and I'm you, if I flamed you that would be
pretty self-depricating, wouldn't it? How's about we join our
personalities into one and take on . . . wait, who's left after that?

*stares around*

Aaron W. Hsu

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KDE and Gnome

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 05:10 PM PDT

On comp.os.linux.misc, John Hasler <com> wrote:
 

ROTFL!

The technocrats (and wannabees) are so desperate to change the
subject here that they are making complete fools of themselves.

John works for Debian, one of the mainstream distros that has
sold out to the M$-allied corporations that are funding the
GDEs.

They don't want the newbies to question the use of the Graphical
Desktop Environments (GDEs) because they want them to remain
ignorant of how Linux actually works, and thus dependent on
them for technical support.

They want the newbies to believe that in order to run Linux
from the commandline that you have to be some kind of guru,
which is complete bull.

All you have to do is understand the _basics_ of how Linux
works and the _basics_ of how the shell works.

That's all John knows, and if he hadn't sold out to the
M$-allied corporations behind the GDEs, he'd be trying to
teach what he knows to the newbies instead of running
interference on threads intended to do just that.

Here's how you beat s like these fellows: You just
do a little reading and a little playing around with the
commandline, and in no time at all you know everything
they do and can show them the door and tell them to take
their ugly Windows-clone user-interfaces with them.

http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/howlinuxworks/
http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.tar.bz2
http://www.linuxpackages.net/howto/slackfiles/books/slackware-basics/html/shell.
html
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/5/bash-who-where-and-what
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/5/bash-man-command
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/5/bash-directory-manipulation
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/5/bash-files-manipulation
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/6/bash-history-in-the-making
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/6/bash-use-your-local-bin
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html
http://linuxreviews.org/beginner/abs-guide/en/
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1052574.html
kind of odd "shell ninja" but lots of good info:
http://www.slideshare.net/brian_dailey/nyphp-march-2009-presentation
http://stat-www.berkeley.edu/classes/s243/bash.html
http://www.learnaboutlinux.net/blog/41-programming/50-bash-basics-1
http://linux.about.com/cs/glossaries/a/aglossary.htm
http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

http://axiom.anu.edu.au/~okeefe/p2b
for:
From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO
Building a Minimal Linux System from Source Code

Note that John Hasler uses a GUI but does _not_ use a GDE:

#From: John Hasler <gt.org>
#Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
#Subject: Re: KDE Commentary
#Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:52:31 -0500
#Message-ID: <dhh.gt.org>
#
#Sidney Lambe wrote:
#> Slackers don't have to use KDE or Gnome or any other GDE.
#
#nb writes:
#> Try and view graphics from the command line, dolt.
#
#I run X with no "desktop environment". Works fine.
#--
#John Hasler
#gt.org
#Dancing Horse Hill
#Elmwood, WI USA


Just like me and tens of thousands of other Linux runners.


Sid

can't ping over crossover cable (get martian source)

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 02:00 PM PDT

David Schwartz a écrit : 

Then they become parts of the same segment, and the assertion remains
true. (Maybe "segment" is not the most appropriate term, "link layer" or
"broadcast domain" may be more accurate)

Did Debian's text console font change recently? How to get the old one back?

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 12:42 PM PDT

Am Montag, 5. Oktober 2009 06:26, Nico Kadel-Garcia a écrit :
 

1) I cannot decide whether following symlinks may or may not
cause problems on an unknown (to me) system.
2) Grep defaults to --devices=read.

Using find with the '-type f' operand is safe, 'grep -r' is not.

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