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Re: [ALUG] HELP!
by Thomas May 15 Jun '99

15 Jun '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 22:52:21 Mark J Ray wrote: > * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > > Daniel Smith <daniel(a)capricorn1.demon.co.uk> writes: > > > I had installed Red Hat from the PC Plus cover disk onto a third hard > > drive but some how I've lost the duel boot options, can anybody tell me > > how to create a boot floppy so I can get Linux back? > > Somewhere on the CD, there should be some .IMG files, RAWRITE.EXE and > some instructions, which should tell you how to make a "rescue disk" > and use it. Been a while since I did that, so I'll stop there. > Better yet, the Red Hat cd is bootable anyway, if you've got a newish PC :) Thom [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] HELP!
by Mark J Ray 15 Jun '99

15 Jun '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Daniel Smith <daniel(a)capricorn1.demon.co.uk> writes: > I had installed Red Hat from the PC Plus cover disk onto a third hard > drive but some how I've lost the duel boot options, can anybody tell me > how to create a boot floppy so I can get Linux back? Somewhere on the CD, there should be some .IMG files, RAWRITE.EXE and some instructions, which should tell you how to make a "rescue disk" and use it. Been a while since I did that, so I'll stop there. -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ Beware the man with the early Sony Handicam... [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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ALUG 2 - another possible event
by Andrew Savory 15 Jun '99

15 Jun '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Here's a thought, of the kind that only occurs having spent an evening in the pub. On a similar vein to the editor paintball wars they have in the States, I'd like to propose an "email client Pool tournament". So far, we have Pine, Balsa, Gnus and Mutt. Whaddayareckon? Andrew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Savory at uea.ac.uk All views are my own - who else would want them? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] (no subject)
by Mark J Ray 13 Jun '99

13 Jun '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk "John Woodard" <jwoodard(a)tesco.net> writes: > Things like compiling the kernel, installing .rpms and getting my poxy sound > card (SBLive value) to work on a RH6.0 distro would be great! I'm sure that we can do a kernel compile somewhere. Installing RPMs would need a RedHat box, so maybe we can show you that on your machine when fixing your soundcard (if it's possible). > Anybody needing a lift from the Diss area mail me. Likewise, anyone between Norwich and King's Lynn can contact me for a lift. -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ Is it Friday today? [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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(no subject)
by John Woodard 13 Jun '99

13 Jun '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Excuse the newbie status but would it be possible to go through some fairly basic stuff on Sunday as well as all those really neat demos like last time. Things like compiling the kernel, installing .rpms and getting my poxy sound card (SBLive value) to work on a RH6.0 distro would be great! Anybody needing a lift from the Diss area mail me. Looking forward to it. Cheers, BJ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Network connectivity
by Martyn B. Drake 12 Jun '99

12 Jun '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk With regards to hubs and so on - what's going to be available for us in the way of networking on Sunday? Regards, Martyn [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] Network connectivity
by Mark J Ray 11 Jun '99

11 Jun '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Paul.Russell(a)uea.ac.uk writes: > Failing that, we'll have to make do with sneakernet :-/ Well, I've got an extremely long bit of serial cable... I may even be able to *ahem* "borrow" some patch cables. -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ What's On? http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/entsdb?Q [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] [ALUG-announce] ALUG2, Norwich, 20 June 1999
by Mark J Ray 11 Jun '99

11 Jun '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Raphael Mankin <raph(a)panache.demon.co.uk> writes: > For the sake of definiteness, would you care to put a date on this? Do you mean > 20 or 27 June? See subject line. 20 June. -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ What's On? http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/entsdb?Q [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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[ALUG-announce] ALUG2, Norwich, 20 June 1999
by Mark J Ray 11 Jun '99

11 Jun '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk * List: alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Hi, A room has been booked in Union House at UEA for ALUG2 a week on Sunday, from 1400 until 1900. If you can now tell me what we're going to do, I'll publicise it on the newsgroups. We may be able to set up a IP-masq network connection for the meeting, too. -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ require("witty_comment"); [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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distributed.net
by Paul.Russell＠uea.ac.uk 11 Jun '99

11 Jun '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk So, you know all that spare processor time you've got? Feel like donating it to a (very) worthy cause? I've set up a team for ALUG on distributed.net. If you've not come across them before, distributed.net is a distributed computer on a quite insane scale. They currently have somewhere in the region of 175,000 members working together on somewhere in the region on 220,000 computers ranging from 386s up to supercomputers. As the distributed.net tagline says: The largest computer on earth. It's all pretty impressive stuff - distributed.net is currently working on breaking an RC5 code (basically to prove that it's possible to do it in a sensible amount of time) If you'd care to join distributed.net and the ALUG team, then we'll see just how much useful work our computers can get done while we're not using them. Take a look at http://www.distributed.net/ for more details. See you next sunday! Paul Russell [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] Lift share?
by Mark J Ray 06 Jun '99

06 Jun '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Andrew Savory <A.Savory(a)uea.ac.uk> writes: > I've been suspiciously quiet on the whole matter cos frankly I'm not sure > myself! We were thinking some time fairly soon at UEA, but I'm not sure of > the exact location - possibly in the Student Union building here, but I > can't say for definite till I speak with Mark. Hi, I'm back ;) We can certainly hold a meeting in one of the meetings rooms in Union House, or possibly the Hive bar if it's not in use, but I need a suggestion of a time before I can see what we've got. Next weekend or the one after? Also, UH isn't blessed with very good net connections in/near the possible meeting rooms, so we'll be confined to localnet, I suspect. Shame. -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ What's On? http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/entsdb?Q [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] Lift share?
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 04 Jun '99

04 Jun '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk ..and what topics? Emmm... chocolate... Andi "Martyn B. Drake" <martyn.drake(a)anglian.lug.org.uk> on 06/03/99 03:30:36 PM To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: Re: [ALUG] Lift share? * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk At 03:20 PM 6/3/99 +0100, you wrote: >erm. where is the next meeting... . and when? Regards, Martyn [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] **************************************************************************************** *Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at http://www.ft.com * * * *This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may contain confidential* *information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any * *use or dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. * *If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us immediately then * *delete this E-Mail. * * * *postmaster(a)ft.com * **************************************************************************************** [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Hi I'm Here!
by Daniel Smith 03 Jun '99

03 Jun '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Hello All I was unable to make the first meeting :o( due to other commitments and I have only just read my messages since the start of May, looks like I missed a great day! I have two questions for you all and then I will go back to lurking for the time being:- 1) When is the next meeting? Soon hopefully! Any locations in mind? I'm happy to travel anywhere and can give lifts, I'm in Braintree in Essex but don't mind going a bit out of my way to pick people up if required. 2) This is the big one! I've been asked to set up a mail server at work, my boss isn't as IT literate as she likes to think and can't understand why I don't just walk into PC World buy some software and have it up and running in ten minutes flat. I have decided to "stick it" on a Linux box. Now I need help as I've only installed Linux once (Red-hat from PC-Plus) and due to lack of time didn't get to play with it properly. The Network server is Novell Netware 3.2 (at least it not Gates!) and the clients are all Win 95 or 98. I need a mail server that will periodically dial up the ISP (Pipex) and then download and distribute the mail to all of the clients. Any mail that is sent from the desktop will go to the Linux box and wait until it dials up. I suppose the desktop mail client will be Micro$haft Outlook as that's the main software that all of the duffers I work with can understand. Can anybody Help? Please. Reply's to the group or direct to myself are welcomed and appreciated! Thank you. -- Daniel Smith [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Lift share?
by Malcolm Locke 03 Jun '99

03 Jun '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Anybody interested in sharing a lift to the next meet? I'm near Sudbury in Suffolk, could share with Ipswich, Colchester Bury st Edmunds sort o area. Mal [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] Next meeting?
by Neill Newman 26 May '99

26 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Owen Synge wrote: > > > off track > > for those interested I got my voodoo3 working under linux with 3D > > acceleration and the q3test demo.. it's damm good ;) > > Is this the graphics card for Linux? I am not sure what you are asking, but hopefully this will satisfy ya The card is a 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 PCI version, The X server has been written for the banshee (the banshee and the voodoo3 are effectively the same, just the V3 is faster) and it works fine, the 3D Glide librarys have also been written, and are in alpha.. I have not personally experienced any bugs, but the drivers need "tweaking" after installation in order to get them to work, this will all be sorted out in time. the Quake3 test client (as far as I know) only runs under linux atm.. and I have tried it with a P166MMX, with 64Meg EDO ram, the V3, and a slow hard disk, and it is very impressive ;)... and Quake2 is unbelieveable fast at 1240x1048 !!! does that answer your question ?? Scoobz > > Owen -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neill Newman Tel: Mobile 07970 673722 Department of Electronics Systems Engineering Work 01206 873708 University of Essex Fax: Work 01206 872900 http://wearables.essex.ac.uk/index.html email: njnewm(a)essex.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] Redhat 6.0 ISO's
by Mark J Ray 25 May '99

25 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk The digest isn't yet active, by the way. I still need to debug a few things. Perhaps the fact that people are using it already is a hint that it should go live ASAP. Interesting. -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ Avoid 3 things: Logic errors and statisticians who can't count. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Redhat 6.0 ISO's
by Ben White 25 May '99

25 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk If people are still looking for ISO's, I have found these. ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/Linux/redhat6/ ftp://ftp.muni.cz/pub/linux/local ftp://ftp.interpath.net/pub/linux/redhat/redhat-6.0/ISO Looks like some are updated daily. Could whoever run's the list please make it so people can mail to the list even if they are just subscribed to the alug-digest. I only want to receive the digest, but was unable to post without being on the main list. Ben White [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Next meeting?
by John Woodard 25 May '99

25 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Any thoughts on when the next meeting will be? I have a couple of thousand newbie questions for all you Linux gurus. :) Regards BJ (BigJohn) [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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PINE // was Re: RedHat 6.0 problems
by Mark J Ray 24 May '99

24 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk M(enu) S(etup) C(onfig), then look for "customized-hdrs" and A(dd) values to it. To see the xtra headers in the message composition screen, press ^R on the header (for Rich header). Is that what you mean? Of course, you should be using better mail clients than PINE these days. Of course, there is always a better mail client no matter what you use ;) -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ <mgb> safetypin: the "off" button works wonders. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 24 May '99

24 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Bring back glint ... all is forgiven!! Mark J Ray <h089(a)mth.uea.ac.uk> on 23/05/99 21:55:15 To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Neill Newman <njnewm(a)essex.ac.uk> writes: > the gnorpm proggie (the gnome rpm manager) does exactly the same, > browses rpm databases on the net, downloads and installs/upgrades... > which is kinda neat ;) Oh no, not unless rpm has become a lot less chaotic and they've added a lot of clever stuff to gnorpm. When he says apt-get goes and installs what you tell it, he means and all the right versions of the stuff it depends upon too. Very nice if you're used to playing "hunt the rpm". -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ <mgb> safetypin: the "off" button works wonders. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] **************************************************************************************** *Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at http://www.ft.com * * * *This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may contain confidential* *information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any * *use or dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. * *If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us immediately then * *delete this E-Mail. * * * *postmaster(a)ft.com * **************************************************************************************** [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 24 May '99

24 May '99

Bring back glint ... all is forgiven!! Mark J Ray <h089(a)mth.uea.ac.uk> on 23/05/99 21:55:15 To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Neill Newman <njnewm(a)essex.ac.uk> writes: > the gnorpm proggie (the gnome rpm manager) does exactly the same, > browses rpm databases on the net, downloads and installs/upgrades... > which is kinda neat ;) Oh no, not unless rpm has become a lot less chaotic and they've added a lot of clever stuff to gnorpm. When he says apt-get goes and installs what you tell it, he means and all the right versions of the stuff it depends upon too. Very nice if you're used to playing "hunt the rpm". -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ <mgb> safetypin: the "off" button works wonders. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] **************************************************************************************** *Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at http://www.ft.com * * * *This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may contain confidential* *information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any * *use or dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. * *If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us immediately then * *delete this E-Mail. * * * *postmaster(a)ft.com * ****************************************************************************************

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Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 24 May '99

24 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk I have a machine which has been running RedHat Bluesky aka preRH6.0/Rawhide 1.0 for a while now with no major problems. True Enlightenment is a bit(!) flakey, but hey it's version 0.15 beta. I'm running SuSE 6.0/6.1 everywhere else now. No problems at all, other than that all .rpm based software seems to be built for RedHat machines. Andi James Green <jg(a)cyberstorm.demon.co.uk> on 23/05/99 22:28:15 To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk On Sun, 23 May 1999, Martyn B. Drake wrote: > * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > > I'm thinking of doing that myself .. RedHat 6.0 has generally been okay, but > it's still rough round the edges. Does anybody actually test this stuff > before it's released? RH5.9 was the 6.0 test-release wasn't it? Now, got a question... How do you insert custom mail headers (for a faq) in pine? James Green [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] **************************************************************************************** *Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at http://www.ft.com * * * *This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may contain confidential* *information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any * *use or dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. * *If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us immediately then * *delete this E-Mail. * * * *postmaster(a)ft.com * **************************************************************************************** [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems
by Martyn B. Drake 23 May '99

23 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk I'm thinking of doing that myself .. RedHat 6.0 has generally been okay, but it's still rough round the edges. Does anybody actually test this stuff before it's released? Let's hope we've got the latest Debian released ISO laying around at work .. think I'll bag myself a copy of that if it is :) Regards, Martyn ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Russell <Paul.Russell(a)uea.ac.uk> To: <alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 1999 12:22 PM Subject: Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk >> A large number of reports of stuff wrong with Gnome/E in the RH6 RPMS - >> this is understandable, Gnome at least has come a long way since the >> RH6 build; > >yeah Gnome/E is a little flakey as yet, but hopefully it will mature >with age.. E certain looks good even if it does crash every few seconds >!!.. If you can bear it, I'd strongly recomend ditching RH6 and moving up to Debian. I'm now happily running Enlightenment DR15.5 and Gnome, I've had very few problems (and most of those were caused by me erm 'playing') I have to say, it's 'quite pretty' and it's getting quite close to the point where you could put it on a desktop machine without too many problems. All we need now is a few shit hot productivity apps and we're away. I'm waiting for gnumeric myself... One of the *really* nice things about debian is it's package management. I've not had to compile a single program since installing deb. You want enlightenment? no problem: apt-get install enlightenment. You want gnome? apt-get install gnome-core gnome-session etc... It'll download the packages if you've not got them locally and install them. nice. If you've got a fast internet connection (as in ISDN router or faster) then you can even install it over the network, two boot disks and you're away. Paul [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Linux '99
by James Green 23 May '99

23 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk OK, Linux '99 from UKUUG made it to slashdot. I take it this has been discussed in ucol, I only just got leafnode rpm down. Can we perhaps arrange travel arrangements together? I'd certainly like to go... James Green [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems
by Mark J Ray 23 May '99

23 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Neill Newman <njnewm(a)essex.ac.uk> writes: > the gnorpm proggie (the gnome rpm manager) does exactly the same, > browses rpm databases on the net, downloads and installs/upgrades... > which is kinda neat ;) Oh no, not unless rpm has become a lot less chaotic and they've added a lot of clever stuff to gnorpm. When he says apt-get goes and installs what you tell it, he means and all the right versions of the stuff it depends upon too. Very nice if you're used to playing "hunt the rpm". -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ <mgb> safetypin: the "off" button works wonders. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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