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New users distribution
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

SuSE is a solid distro. SuSE never seems to be mentioned in some circles, but its pretty damn good and worth at look at. It seems to be on par with Slackware in that lots of people use it for their server operating systems. Oh well... my two pence worth!! Andi -------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 09:46:23PM +0000, Aquarius wrote: > Which should I recommend? One that comes with a good book on it. (or equivalent online docs) Mandrake is based on RH, so uses RH's packaging system. Storm and Corel are based on Debian, but Storm seems to leave you abruptly post-install in my opinion and Corel has that root exploit. Stampede is too early in its life. Slackware is OK, but you really need a book. SuSE I've never given a fair trial. ********************************************************************* * 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 ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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SuSE wms
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

Hey, I remember those Sun 3-60 machines. Classic!! Then we upgrade them to be Xterm's when the Sparc ELC's arrived!!! Eee, by heck! Those were the days! A> On 21-Feb-00 Green J M K wrote: > Hey all, > > Okay, I am stuck in this uni machine. It uses gdm to login, and presents > only KDE as the possible environment. But hark! /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker is > present! I tried killall -9 kwm && wmaker (as per a suggestion) but it > simply logged me out. > > Anyone got any bright ideas? You don't know a good think when you see it..... When I was an UG at essex we were using some crap in house 68000 box with no virtual memory or dma and a crap prot of SYS-V I think.... Then we moved to a network of Sun 3-60s :-) Peter. ********************************************************************* * 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 ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Trouble with gimp
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 24 Feb '00

24 Feb '00

Is this your home directories and CVS repository? I can recommend StorageTec tape silos!! We back up 15PetaBytes of data on these!!! :-) Seriously, DAT's are fine. At home I back up (using BRU I must admit) across multiple DAT's. If you get a DAT drive with an Autochange it'll do this automagically for you during the night. Any half decent backup software will support the autochanger. Some of my FTP Server's here at work I backup to DLT's. These are fine for smallish file servers - well 40GB on one tape. Have fun... Andi eee bye eck, when I wer't lad ;)... I guess I better get this back on a linux related theme ;).. does anybody have any suggestions for a reasonable backup devices other than dat under linux ?? we need to back up about 15 gig, dosen't have to be than fast, (well overnight will do!).. it seems that dat's are now becomming a little small ;).. please, no suggestions of 15 jazz drives ;).. Sz ********************************************************************* * 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 ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Mandrake 7
by John Woodard 24 Feb '00

24 Feb '00

All you RedHatters out there check out Mandrake 7.0 very slick! Cheers, BJ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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SuSE wms
by Green J M K 22 Feb '00

22 Feb '00

Hey all, Okay, I am stuck in this uni machine. It uses gdm to login, and presents only KDE as the possible environment. But hark! /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker is present! I tried killall -9 kwm && wmaker (as per a suggestion) but it simply logged me out. Anyone got any bright ideas? (I have a related question for those who answer correctly.) James. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Redhat user login prob!
by Simon Jude 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

Hi, I have a slight problem in that when a user tries to login to my redhat 6.1 system they get kicked straight back to the login screen. Only the root user can login! How can I fix this? Thanks Simon School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, University Plain, Norwich, NR4 7TJ Telephone (01603) 593124 Fax (01603) 507719 [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Apache: Is this a bad trick?
by MJ Ray 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

Any apache gurus on the list, I've been doing some site development, and rather than have to tweak all the addresses, I added 127.0.0.2 sitename to the /etc/hosts file and defined 127.0.0.2 as a virtual host. I don't know why, but I feel that's a bad thing to do: is it? MJR [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Staroffice CD
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

Hiya! I can recommend Star Office. Sun sent me a CD last year - the installation ran perfectly. You could certainly put it on any 'users' desktop running on SuSE and fool them into thinking it was something from the Redmond (un)stable. A> "Simon Jude" <s.jude(a)uea.ac.uk> on 21/02/2000 16:27:00 To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: [alug] Staroffice CD Hi, I don't know if anybody is interested but Sun are giving away free Star Office CDs at: http://www.sun.co.uk/promotions/software/staroffice/form.html Simon School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, University Plain, Norwich, NR4 7TJ Telephone (01603) 593124 Fax (01603) 507719 [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(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 ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Staroffice CD
by Simon Jude 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

Hi, I don't know if anybody is interested but Sun are giving away free Star Office CDs at: http://www.sun.co.uk/promotions/software/staroffice/form.html Simon School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, University Plain, Norwich, NR4 7TJ Telephone (01603) 593124 Fax (01603) 507719 [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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SuSE wms
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 21 Feb '00

21 Feb '00

Knowing Essex University, you'll be lucky they haven't deleted the kernel because it was taking up disk space!!! A> Green J M K <jmkgre(a)essex.ac.uk> on 21/02/2000 14:03:14 To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: [alug] SuSE wms On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, MJ Ray wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 01:57:29PM +0000, Green J M K wrote: > > maybe it wasn't gdm ???? > > What did it look like? Textured background, space for username and password, drop down list of available environments, Go and Shutdown buttons. Only KDE listed in menu. Essex Uni logo in top right of the dialog. Small dialog. James. ********************************************************************* * 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 ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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