From jonathan.bartels at gmail.com Tue Jul 27 09:39:11 2010 From: jonathan.bartels at gmail.com (Jonathan Bartels) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:39:11 -0400 Subject: [fwlug] Getting comfortable with some more distros Message-ID: Been getting knees deep in some new distros and learning some new things recently. Thought you all might be interested. I've been running CrunchBang on my old T40 for a while now. Loving it. I always felt the multi monitor setting tools were awkward as hell on both Linux and Windows. I wanted to watch some TopGear on my laptop on my TV so I was forced to learn my way around xrandr. Thats actually a pretty neat tool. I also had to run X -reconfigure (I think), can anyone tell me what that command actually does under the hood? Work has gotten me into a few RedHat variants, I've got a customer running RHEL and CentOS is used all over at my employer. I *love* the alternatives system, especially since its consistent between RedHat and Ubuntu. Under the RedHat systems, do the RPM packages have a central repo from the vendor like Ubuntu does? I had to jump through some hoops and download an RPM to install some simple things like w3m. -- ----- Jonathan Bartels From vceder at canterburyschool.org Sat Jul 31 19:57:55 2010 From: vceder at canterburyschool.org (Vern Ceder) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:57:55 -0400 Subject: [fwlug] Getting comfortable with some more distros In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4C54C693.4000008@canterburyschool.org> Hi Jon, I've been experimenting with TinyCore myself - it's very tiny and fast, seems to work even on an old Acer tablet. A simple but completely different approach to packaging - basically .tgz files are separately mounted as overlays. X -configure runs X, trying various parameters and generating a "sort of works" xorg.conf if all goes well. Vern Jonathan Bartels wrote: > Been getting knees deep in some new distros and learning some new > things recently. Thought you all might be interested. > > I've been running CrunchBang on my old T40 for a while now. Loving it. > I always felt the multi monitor setting tools were awkward as hell on > both Linux and Windows. I wanted to watch some TopGear on my laptop on > my TV so I was forced to learn my way around xrandr. Thats actually a > pretty neat tool. I also had to run X -reconfigure (I think), can > anyone tell me what that command actually does under the hood? > > Work has gotten me into a few RedHat variants, I've got a customer > running RHEL and CentOS is used all over at my employer. I *love* the > alternatives system, especially since its consistent between RedHat > and Ubuntu. Under the RedHat systems, do the RPM packages have a > central repo from the vendor like Ubuntu does? I had to jump through > some hoops and download an RPM to install some simple things like w3m. > -- This time for sure! -Bullwinkle J. Moose ----------------------------- Vern Ceder, Director of Technology Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 vceder at canterburyschool.org; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW From gmaxwell at shambaugh.com Sat Jul 31 20:06:12 2010 From: gmaxwell at shambaugh.com (Greg Maxwell) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:06:12 -0400 Subject: [fwlug] Greg Maxwell is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 07/27/2010 and will not return until 08/02/2010. In case of emergency, I may be reached via cell phone at 260-414-6715. Cell phone coverage will be patchy so please leave a message. I will be checking voicemail daily. This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. From travis at actionowl.org Sat Jul 31 20:24:11 2010 From: travis at actionowl.org (Travis Paul) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:24:11 -0400 Subject: [fwlug] Getting comfortable with some more distros In-Reply-To: <4C54C693.4000008@canterburyschool.org> References: <4C54C693.4000008@canterburyschool.org> Message-ID: I liked tiny core too I think I heard about it from the mailing list, I tried out a bunch of distros before I found Arch, and I haven't been able to find a distro I like more. I figure I might like Slackware or Gentoo but I never got around to trying those and the last thing I need is a MORE customizeable distro to geek out over (thats may not be entirely true). Has anyone tried any of the entirely open source and GNU approved distros such as GnuSense or Trisquel? On Jul 31, 2010 8:58 PM, "Vern Ceder" wrote: Hi Jon, I've been experimenting with TinyCore myself - it's very tiny and fast, seems to work even on an old Acer tablet. A simple but completely different approach to packaging - basically .tgz files are separately mounted as overlays. X -configure runs X, trying various parameters and generating a "sort of works" xorg.conf if all goes well. Vern Jonathan Bartels wrote: > > Been getting knees deep in some new distros and learning some new > th... This time for sure! -Bullwinkle J. Moose ----------------------------- Vern Ceder, Director of Technology Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 vceder at canterburyschool.org; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list Fwlug at fortwaynelug.org http://f... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bishop at webclutter.com Sun Aug 1 07:10:18 2010 From: bishop at webclutter.com (Bishop Brown) Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 08:10:18 -0400 Subject: [fwlug] Science Central IT Committee Message-ID: <7F1C72CC-B6B2-4ADE-9BD3-A0ABD8844880@webclutter.com> Hello everyone! This is a call out for volunteers to help serve on Science Centrals IT Committee. We are looking for people to help and advise on managing and troubleshooting our user workstations and servers. We are primarily a windows environment, but with next to a zero budget for IT open source solutions are needed. 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