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Alan
31-Dec-2004
[1]
seeing that Carl is working to use Mandrake as his dev box,thought 
I would see who else uses Mandrake here
Henrik
31-Dec-2004
[2x2]
It is missing important apps like CVS and SSH for instance, and I'm 
not a typical Linux user who can spend hours to find and download 
the GNU sources for an app, configure the build, and compile it.

 <--- don't know how Mandrake handles packages other than it's RPM, 
 but Debian handles these things in seconds with a single CLI command, 
 and it surely isn't necessary to hunt down sources manually. :-)

I always regarded Debian as a bit harder to start with but many times 
easier to maintain once it runs.
that was from the blog, btw. :-)
Alan
31-Dec-2004
[4]
well Mandrake was the first distro that i ever got a install with 
out having a book in hand so am more than happy with it-so far :^)
Bouba
31-Dec-2004
[5x2]
Shouldn't urpmi command be easy to use?
:)
Ladislav
1-Jan-2005
[7]
Mandrake isn't missing SSH AFAIK. I am using Mandrake and SSH regularly.
BrianW
1-Jan-2005
[8x2]
It depends on which Mandrake bundle you're using, and whether you 
opt for the default settings.
I'm more of a Fedora person when it comes to easy distros
Josh
1-Jan-2005
[10]
I've used Mandrake, and I have had the best luck with it over other 
distros.  urpmi worked snazzily for me.  I also use SSH constantly
Gregg
2-Jan-2005
[11]
I set it up here under VMWare for basic use (not a *nix guy :-) and 
it worked; SUSE was also OK; but RedHat solved a couple issues the 
others had under VMWare, which is really just a versioning/support 
issue in that environment. I had to find an old RedHat at that.
yeksoon
20-Jan-2005
[12]
just found out that mod_gzip, mod_gunzip, mod_bunzip2 (any of this) 
is not a default module with RHEL .


I would have thought that this will be a useful module for any server 
to have.
Kaj
19-Mar-2005
[13]
Just installed Ubuntu Linux for the first time. REBOL/View's font 
rendering is correct on it. I hope that will still be the case with 
the new version that will be released in a month
Henrik
19-Mar-2005
[14]
I'm sitting on a debian and Ubuntu box here. Fonts are a tad larger 
in Ubuntu than in debian. debian runs XFree86 and Ubuntu, I believe 
uses X.org.
BrianW
19-Mar-2005
[15]
View is pretty happy under Fedora Core 3
Henrik
19-Mar-2005
[16]
I do get an error with Core where it stops responding after loading 
in a terminal. No prompt or error appears. This doesn't happen with 
View.
Kaj
19-Mar-2005
[17]
Ubuntu still has XFree, but I think the next version will move to 
Xorg, hence my concern
Henrik
19-Mar-2005
[18x2]
I run hoary on two Ubuntu machines. no problems except the font size
and they are both X.org
Kaj
19-Mar-2005
[20x2]
Hoary preview?
I installed Warty. Is the font size in /View a problem on Hoary?
Henrik
19-Mar-2005
[22x3]
well, it's the latest update. just switched out warty with hoary 
in the sources.list and so I run Hoary :-) I think I need to check 
the DPI on both machines. I don't have any warty machines.
ok, it's a bit funny, because some fonts are bigger, such as in the 
chat area, but headlines are smaller.
It could be related to which fonts are installed
Kaj
19-Mar-2005
[25]
But not garbled?
Henrik
19-Mar-2005
[26]
no garbling at all. just slightly different font sizes.
Kaj
19-Mar-2005
[27]
OK, thanks. Most Debian-derived distros don't trigger the font bug
Henrik
19-Mar-2005
[28]
http://hmkdesign.dk/debian.pngand http://hmkdesign.dk/ubuntu.png
Kaj
19-Mar-2005
[29]
:-)
Henrik
19-Mar-2005
[30x2]
ok, DPI setting for the ubuntu box is 96 DPI. maybe AltME has an 
"anti-garbling" feature of headlines by turning down the font size 
while everything else is bigger
debian is 72 DPI
Kaj
19-Mar-2005
[32x2]
The Ubuntu one is more readable, actually
I'm going to use Hoary to finally switch from Windows
Henrik
19-Mar-2005
[34x2]
I'm a bit surprised at how far ahead Hoary is compared to debian 
unstable
my debian runs gnome 2.8.2 from experimental, but ubuntu runs 2.10 
and it's a lot more stable.
Kaj
19-Mar-2005
[36x2]
Yes, they're doing much better release management
I had a number of problems with Warty, but it's just the first release, 
and it still compares favorably with the alternatives
Henrik
19-Mar-2005
[38x2]
hoary is pretty good. I had a single problem detecting two network 
cards in my laptop when I first tried it, but I got it running.
does Warty have the system update tool? Its pretty cool.
Kaj
20-Mar-2005
[40]
No, Warty doesn't have it yet. Yes, there are nice improvements in 
Hoary, but I couldn't use the preview yet. I did add a number of 
repositories and applications, so I got halfway towards Hoary after 
all
Volker
20-Mar-2005
[41]
Maybe its related, on suse 9.0 i change in xf86config
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
to
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:scaled"
Else /view finds only a few matching font-sizes.
Kaj
20-Mar-2005
[42]
Does that fix garbled fonts?
Volker
20-Mar-2005
[43]
No, font-size-problems. before the default was to large, and some 
things like h1 did not work.
[unknown: 10]
30-Mar-2005
[44x2]
http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/ThIndex
I think Rebol/services can beat that !
[unknown: 10]
31-Mar-2005
[46]
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/
Kaj
31-Mar-2005
[47]
Yes, that's a good one. An annoying thing, though, is that it doesn't 
seem capable of changing the refresh rate from a flicker
Robert
4-Jun-2005
[48x3]
Ok, here is a thing I want to use /Core for, which IMO is useful 
to a lot of people: Locking out IPs after multiple failed sshd login 
attempts
I'm not a Linux guru. There are some solutions using a tool named 
SWATCH but it's not that easy.
So what's needed:

1. We need a way to continually parse the SSHD log-file, something 
like tial

2. We extract the IP address and add it to some firewall, to block 
it for some time
3. We need to remove the IP from the firewall

Anyone interested in such a project?