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Dylbyrt | 1 Jul 2005 04:42

Re: SuSE Professional Linux 9.3 login screen failure

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 12:59, Howard Rosen wrote:

> Thanks again for the support that this group - LBo - provides.
> 
> Howard

Hey Howard, 
I was just wondering what you think of 9.3 in a nutshell. I was thinking
of getting it, and just doing a fresh install from 9.1 pro, and was
wondering if you think it's worth it.
Have a great evening all, in Texas it's now bedtime!!

Mike

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Howard Rosen | 1 Jul 2005 15:07
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Re: SuSE Professional Linux 9.3 login screen failure

Mike,

Thanks for the confidence you are placing in me.  I've been thinking a lot 
about Linux, about SuSE Professional 9.3 Linux these days, and your 
challenge is a tough one.

Without going into the tome that is required for a really solid answer I'll 
give you the "nutshell" response.  For people who already have an up and 
running Linux that is generally meeting their needs, I would not suggest 
replacing your version of Linux with 9.3.

Just the other day I was starting to explore the dbase package in 
OpenOffice.org and received a message that the Java Runtime Environment 
(jre) package was defective and it should be replaced.  That meant going to 
the Sun site where jre resides, doing a download, an installation, 
etc.  This is just one more frustration with 9.3.  Why in the world should 
the jre provided with the 9.3 package be corrupt?  Oh well.  I decided to 
also update my windows version of jre and found it to be a much simpler and 
direct process with less decision making on my part.  That is more of a 
charge against Linux, than it is specifically 9.3.  So, yes, a nutshell 
reply is one thing, but there's more to come.

Howard

At 09:42 PM 6/30/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 12:59, Howard Rosen wrote:
>
> > Thanks again for the support that this group - LBo - provides.
> >
> > Howard
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Anita Lewis | 1 Jul 2005 15:34

Ubuntu - upgrade to firefox 1.0.4 - sources.list - multiuniverse

I love Ubuntu and synaptic and all that, but I've been having trouble 
with my sources.list not getting what I'm looking for.  Maybe it is just 
mozilla-firefox, but I know that I'm not connecting to this 
multiuniverse repository, because I'm getting errors on that both in 
synaptic and when I do the commandline 'apt-get update'

I've spent well over an hour on the wiki trying to figure out what is 
wrong.  I probably should have gone to irc, now that I think about it.  
I finally gave up trying to upgrade firefox and did the smart 
thing--went to mozilla, got the package and installed it after 
uninstalling the old package using apt-get. 

But I'm wondering what this multiuniverse thing is all about.  Am I 
supposed to be able to get newer versions of packages with it?  Am I 
supposed to be able to get to it? And is there a list of repositories so 
that I can try something else in sources.list?

Thanks.

Anita
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Jay Latham | 1 Jul 2005 16:01

thinking of changing careers?

http://www.j-walk.com/other/spamu/index.htm

Thought this was funny. Check it out.

Jay
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Stefan Waidele jun. | 1 Jul 2005 19:34

Open-Source-TV

Hi,

I have not finished downloading, yet, so I have not seen it.
But this sound very interesting:

http://www.go-opensource.org/go_open/
---8<-------------------------------------------------------
go_open

Go Open Source has announced a world first television show dedicated to 
promoting open source software. The 13 episode Go_Open airs on SABC 2 
every Saturday at 17:30 from the 20th November. The programme will 
showcase success stories, interviews with the top local and 
international pioneers, and the latest products and news from the open 
source world.
---8<-------------------------------------------------------

Stefan
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Doug Skranak | 1 Jul 2005 21:47
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Re: Ubuntu - upgrade to firefox 1.0.4 - sources.list - multiuniverse

Anita Lewis wrote:
> I love Ubuntu and synaptic and all that, but I've been having trouble
> with my sources.list not getting what I'm looking for.  Maybe it is just
> mozilla-firefox, but I know that I'm not connecting to this
> multiuniverse repository, because I'm getting errors on that both in
> synaptic and when I do the commandline 'apt-get update'
> 
Could you be more specific please?

> I've spent well over an hour on the wiki trying to figure out what is
> wrong.  I probably should have gone to irc, now that I think about it. 
> I finally gave up trying to upgrade firefox and did the smart
> thing--went to mozilla, got the package and installed it after
> uninstalling the old package using apt-get.
> But I'm wondering what this multiuniverse thing is all about.  Am I
> supposed to be able to get newer versions of packages with it?  Am I
> supposed to be able to get to it? And is there a list of repositories so
> that I can try something else in sources.list?
> 

An interesting discussion occurs on LWN about 'FireFox'.  Oops
s/FireFox/IceWeasel/g

http://lwn.net/Articles/140274/

Short answer, no you will not get 'newer' packages from Ubuntu.  You
will, however, get security updates from Ubuntu which may incidentally
add functionality, but not always.

I'd suggest running apt-setup and build a new clean sources.list then
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Doug Skranak | 1 Jul 2005 21:56
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Re: Open-Source-TV

Stefan Waidele jun. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have not finished downloading, yet, so I have not seen it.
> But this sound very interesting:
> 
> http://www.go-opensource.org/go_open/
> ---8<-------------------------------------------------------
> go_open
> 
> Go Open Source has announced a world first television show dedicated to
> promoting open source software. The 13 episode Go_Open airs on SABC 2
> every Saturday at 17:30 from the 20th November. The programme will
> showcase success stories, interviews with the top local and
> international pioneers, and the latest products and news from the open
> source world.
> ---8<-------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Stefan
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> LinuxBasics.org mailing list
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> http://mail.LinuxBasics.org/mailman/listinfo/qna
> 

Legaltorrents has well torrents!:
http://www.legaltorrents.com/index.htm

Doug
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Sam Morgan | 2 Jul 2005 04:29

ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore'

ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore' (O'ReillyNet)
[Press] Posted Jul 1, 2005 17:39 UTC (Fri) by cook

Federico Biancuzzi talks to[1] Eric Raymond about license issues. "Q:Why
did you say we don't need the GPL anymore? A:It's 2005, not 1985. We've
learned a lot in the last 20 years. The fears that originally led to the
reciprocity stuff in GPL are nowadays, at least in my opinion, baseless.
People who do what the GPL tries to prevent (e.g., closed source forks
of open source projects) wind up injuring only themselves. They trap
themselves unto competing with a small in-house development group
against the much larger one in the parent open source project, and
failing."

 [1] http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html

God Bless,
Sam Morgan

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Sam Morgan
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Stefan Waidele jun. | 2 Jul 2005 11:03

Re: ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore'

Sam Morgan wrote:
> ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore' (O'ReillyNet)
> [Press] Posted Jul 1, 2005 17:39 UTC (Fri) by cook
> [...] 
>  [1] http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html

While I certainly disagree with ERS on that one, this interview is full 
of other really interesting topics. A nice read!

Stefan
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Stefan Waidele jun. | 2 Jul 2005 14:17

PDF export

Hello everybody,

"Was Du schwarz auf weiß besitzt, kannst Du getrost nach Hause tragen"
"If you have it black on white, you can carry it home easily"
(Goethe)

We added PDF-export to LBo.
This means that if you want to print a page, you can click on the 'pdf' 
link at the top of the page (left of the 'rss').

The PDF is generated on the fly, so you have a nice, current document to 
print.
Of course, it looks best on long pages. You might want to try this one:
http://linuxbasics.org/tutorials/advanced/networking/lanremote?do=export_pdf

As you can see, there is simply "?do=export_pdf" appended to the URL. 
But clicking on that PDF-Link is a lot easier.

We hope this is a feature is usefull for everybody, especially those who 
like to "have something in their hands".

Yours,

Anita, Sam & Stefan
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