Hi,
(let the fight begin)
I'm going to set up a new la{firebird,mysql}p/mail/ftp server in a near future
and I wonder which distro I should choose...
I have already a box (doing the same kind of services) running debian sarge,
which is fine, but 2 things bother me with sarge:
- sarge is outdated (kernel 2.6.8, php only V4, no mysql 5)
- the new release (etch) will (hopefully) be out in 6 month
So I would end up installing an outdated distro, which is only 1 year old by
now... How long will debian provide security updates for sarge?
I have a strong temptation to go with ubuntu dapper, which I have made good
experiences with. Dapper is up-to-date, feels good, and has 5 years security
updates for the server version.
Only backdraw is that my colleagues are debian die-hards and seem not yet to
be pleased so much with the new kid on the block...
Also, most of our firewalls in the wild run sarge, so we have a very good
knowledge about that specific release.
Which distro, sarge, dapper or any other, would you recommend for this
purpose?
Best regards,
Yves
Hello
I think to buy a new Laptop. I've seen a announce of the Asus Z9201T. with
AMD Turion 64X2 (1.6Ghz 512k L2 Cache)
100GB HD
8x Double Layer DVD Burner
15.4" Screen
10/100/1000 Base TLan aand 802.11b/g WLan
4 in 1 Card-Reader
Bluetooth
Modem, USB2x4, Firewire,TV-Out
NVidia GForce G07600 256MB
I don't know, if linux runs on it.
www.tuxmobile.org hasn't a reference.
What do you think?
Al
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On Tuesday 27 June 2006 14:10, pst wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:56 +0200, Alex.Loes(a)lll.lu wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a problem mounting a novell volume (ncpmount).
> > Under SuSE 10.1, I mount the volume using the code page 437 (parameter
> > -p cp437). All works fine. Regional used letters such as é,à,è are
> > correctly used, volume names have these letters.
> > In Kubuntu Dapper, this doesn't work. The same names do not have the
> > regional letters. Instead, they are replaced by ? or other signs.
> >
With the help of Alain, I finally get it to work. The thing is that the
parameters -p cp437 AND -y utf8 have to be used at the same time for
ncpmount.
Al
Hi
I have a problem mounting a novell volume (ncpmount).
Under SuSE 10.1, I mount the volume using the code page 437 (parameter
-p cp437). All works fine. Regional used letters such as é,à,è are
correctly used, volume names have these letters.
In Kubuntu Dapper, this doesn't work. The same names do not have the
regional letters. Instead, they are replaced by ? or other signs.
What have I to do to use these letters (codepage) also in Kubuntu?
Thanks
Al
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Hi,
what with Google Earth out for GNU/Linux, I wanted to give it a decent
try using the proprietary NVidia graphics driver instead of the free "nv"
driver.
After a round of updates, I have my system now on Debian testing, kernel
2.6.16.18 (self-baked), xorg 7.0 (man, that did cost some time to even
get there with the nv driver - the box was originally installed with Debian
stable several years ago and has seen many upgrades and dist-upgrades),
kde 3.5.2
I found out that for the proprietary driver, I needed to specify the
modules path to the installer:
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1.run --x-module-path=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/
I also found that having the "nvidia-glx" and "nvidia-kernel" scripts in
/etc/init.d was less than optimal after a reboot - they totally messed up
the proprietary driver => reinstall (of the driver).
Now, with the nvidia module specified in xorg.conf, when starting X11 I do
get the NVidia logo - ok so far.
If I run a gnome session, things work out.
But, if I run my usual KDE session, or simply kdm, X11 does start up, draws
a few things to the screen (say, most of the kdm window, or in the case of
the kde session, it does get up to "restoring session"), and then freezes.
The mouse pointer still moves, but no keyboard input is accepted, nothing
else is drawn to the screen.
If I then login via ssh I can kill X11, but do not get back control over
the console -> I have to reboot after all.
I did try using a totally fresh account with no config files whatsoever
around (system defaults only), same effect.
Does anyone have an idea what might cause this behavior, and how to fix
it? Pointers to TFM are welcome, as long as they are precise enough ;-)
Greetings & TIA, Eric (using the free nv driver for now)
Just to have a rough estimate of how much stuff we need to stock for the
Grillfest: who plans to come? Any volunteers to bring salads? For the
meat, we'll try to work something out with the LGL's supplier, as the
years before.
Thanks,
Alain
Hello,
I'm working for a big client in France who uses a windows2K network and also HP-UNIX servers, communication between machines is done by VNC; now I'd like to work with cygwin to obtain acess on UNIX machines; I've no problem to start the emulator but can't start the graphical server (using startx command; it should be possible -depending of parametrisation- to launch kde, gnome or xwindows); actually, I'm on two possibility which can be source of problem:
-X11 packages have not been correctly installed (maybe beause a font is not correctly intalled?)
-there is a conflict with VNC on a certain port (this should be because VNC has been installed BEFORE CygWin but I'm not sure).
When invoking startx, I receive folowing error message in calling shell:
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.1.0-9
Contact: cygwin-xfree(a)cygwin.com
XWin was started with the following command line:
X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0
Fatal server error:
InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0. Exiting.
winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
Any suggestion is welcome
Thank you in advance
Cheers
M.
Hi all,
I'm thinking about buying a thinkpad, and was wondering how I may buy one
without any m$ product preloaded or included ?
I tried to contact lenovo Belgium, but without much success.
Thanks for any hints/tips :-)
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regards,
Georges Toth
Hello,
I'm using actually KdePrintFax configirated with sendfax/mgetty-sendfax but I'm unable to send a fax with this system; what file format is supportad by sendfax?
In the documentation, it is said the input file must be on g3 format, created by pbm2g3 from bitmat one (if I correctly understood) but how to convert openoffice format to bitmap?
Thank you in advance for any suggestion
cheers
M
Hello
Suse has integrated a great thing in firefox: You have bookmarks of their
pages directly integrated in the browser. Nothing new, but great is the
thing you have a button 'Open in tabs'. When you click on it, all link
will be opened in a different tab. Very useful.
How can I do it for bookmarks that I will open in different tabs (the same
way) in one time, so that I don't need to open a tab and choose everytime
the bookmark!
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Thanx
Al
