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| Thread ID: 43373 | 2004-03-12 21:24:00 | First try at Xandros v2 | John H (8) | Press F1 |
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| 222025 | 2004-03-13 01:30:00 | Well Terry, I've never figured out where (smack bang in the middle) Hutt is, since moving here and have definitely thought of waiting for a rates demand from the Lower Hutt City Council because these Hutt City folk who send their exorbitant junk through my letter box appear to be a bunch of scam artists. But in deference to our "superior" northern suburb, I can say that you get the better temperatures in summer (what summer) but a tunnel would be handy to bypass Northern Hutt in winter. While I'm on it, can you buggers stop flushing your loo's when there is a hint of rain around. It got a bit too close for comfort last month. Of course this only applies to those good people with running tap water and flush toilets. Cheers Murray ;P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 222026 | 2004-03-13 01:42:00 | Here are a couple of screenshots. I have only changed the default wallpaper, and done one other fiddle to the windows (IceWM), so it is still somewhat boring. I would love to have the penguin seeing I am running Linux... sal.neoburn.net sal.neoburn.net In the second image you will see the network is showing, minus one computer that is presently shut down. You will also see the other two partitions (Windoze ones) on this laptop, both of which are browseable from here. Haven't checked yet to see if they are writeable but I assume they will be. |
John H (8) | ||
| 222027 | 2004-03-13 01:49:00 | Cool. How much did you cough up for it John? Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 222028 | 2004-03-13 02:02:00 | I haven't received an invoice for it yet Murray, but J said vaguely it will be less than they are asking for it in the local adverts (which is $145 I think). Compare that with the combined price of XP Pro and a Microsoft Office Suite... No wonder Microsoft are trying to call Linux a communist plot or something. BTW, this is coming to you from Xandros via Mozilla. I have just checked with my bank's website and I can access internet banking, so that is a relief. I also notice (don't tell Pressf1) that there are no adverts with Mozilla - is that Linux or Mozilla - I assume the latter? Lovely! Now I am going to check to see whether the Xandros drag and drop CD burning works because J wants to know! |
John H (8) | ||
| 222029 | 2004-03-13 02:16:00 | Terry> Defragging is a thing of the past, the Ext2/3 and ReiserFS file-systems take care of themselves. Sometimes it pays to just go through and clean out your /home/username folder, including files starting with a period. In Linux, files are hidden by putting a . before the filename/directory name. John> KDE has Maori support IIRC?! Nice screenies though :-) What kernel does Xandros run? 2.4 or 2.6? I know that 2.6 has support for Packet-Writing to CD-R/W's. Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 222030 | 2004-03-13 02:22:00 | Ta John. Chill or anybody. can you explain the differences and benefits of the Ext 2 /3 and ReiserFS file systems. Are there differences like between Fat, Fat 32 and NTFS for eg, and for what reasons would you choose one over another. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 222031 | 2004-03-13 02:23:00 | Oh dear . :_| Files starting with a " . " are like that for a reason . Users aren't supposed to mess with them . Including deleting them . ;-) If they start with a dot and end in "rc" they hold the configuration of applications . Usually if the file is missing, the application will assume it's the first time for you and make a new one . . . with the default settings, which means that any changes you have made will be lost . If you delete the " . bash" files, the results will be interesting . (as in the alleged Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times" . ) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 222032 | 2004-03-13 02:28:00 | Thanks Chill - I'm back on the Doze desktop cos the CD is being burned on the laptop! I am going to have to install Xandros on this thing quite soon... >KDE has Maori support IIRC?! Ah, I will have to have a hunt through KDE to find it! Thanks - that will make life a lot easier. >What kernel does Xandros run? 2.4 or 2.6? The kernel marked on the box is 2.4.22 but I downloaded a HUGE heap of stuff yesterday so don't know if there was a new kernel included. I will check when the CD is finished. |
John H (8) | ||
| 222033 | 2004-03-13 02:42:00 | ext2 became the traditional filesystem out of a fairly large number of improvements on the minix one . :D ext3 and Reiser are journalling file systems . This gives a huge improvement in file safety . Each disk operation is logged before it is carries out . If an operation fails (because the power goes off or somemthing else nasty happens) there is a safe means of recovering . So you don't have to wait for a while each fourth boot for the ext2 system to be checked . Normally the boot partition is ext2 (because it's used fiirst for booting --- and is very rarely changed) . But make the / and any other partitions (except swap) either ext3 or Reiser . Ext3 is the older system so might be "more" debugged . Reiser is one person's work, but he's a clever bugger . ;-) I think he does a commercial version, so it must be pretty good . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 222034 | 2004-03-13 02:45:00 | Chill, it is 2.4, not 2.6. The CD burned successfully, and was readable on the Doze desktop computer. :-) I think I have a problem with KDE - when I try to open Regional Settings, where I assume Maori support will reside, it crashes. I am invited to send in a bug report. :-( First thing that has gone wrong. |
John H (8) | ||
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