How to change from gnome to KDE and back?
by Vinny Onelli
Hello,
I would like to try KDE But I don't want to reinstall f14. Is there way
to switch to KDE and then back to gnome? I did select the KDE also
during the installation. at the present time I have gnome running.
12 years, 9 months
hostname issues
by Leonardo Silveira
hello everyone,
i had to add the chosen name for my machine on /etc/hosts manually.
That name was chosen during installation. Such problem caused strange
bugs on jboss and glassfish, maybe others servers which relies to the
name machine to do they business.
I want to know if some other person had this problem, and what was
the solution, if any other than /etc/hosts edition.
Thanks in advance.
12 years, 9 months
how to install glabel
by Vinny Onelli
Hello,
I downloaded glabel but I was not able to install.
./configure went through OK
make: returned "no targets specified end no makefile found
there is makefile.am and makefile.in. what am I doing wrong?
Vinny.
12 years, 9 months
Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates
by Wade Hampton
I agree with those asking to extend F14. Extending
support will allow more time to fix F16 to better address
the GUI issues with Gnome 3, hopefully.
Cheers,
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Wade Hampton
12 years, 9 months
problem with fonts when using root-tail
by M. Fioretti
Greetings,
I run into the following error when running root-tail (*) on a Fedora 14 x86_64 system:
root-tail -g 800x250+100+50 /var/log/messages,green -font 12x24 /var/log/secure,red,'ALERT'
Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion (ISO8859-7)
Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion (ISO8859-1)
unable to create fontset for font '12x24', exiting.
I've already searched online a bit, but didn't find any info as to
which other packages I should install, or what else I should
read/check to get more info and fix this problem. Any pointer is
appreciated!
TIA,
Marco
(*) http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/root-tail.html
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12 years, 9 months
Question on DNS setup change not working.
by Michael D. Setzer II
Our MIS department just decided to not allow the use of the public
IP addresses of system from local machines, so I made the
additions to the hosts file with the private ip and the name.
restart named and restarted squid, and squid picked up the
change, and would bring up pages using the name. Unfortunately,
dig and other options would still be using the public IP instead.
Tried restarting the machine to see if something might not have
been changed, but it remains the same.
In the past, I had done this same thing for local services I have.
redhatgcc.dyndns.org has a public ip of 202.128.73.24, but on the
inside it has the private ip of 192.168.50.41. So, the hosts file has
the link between the 192.168.50.41 and the
redhatgcc.dyndns.org, and it reports that.
But now the college web sever that has a public IP of
202.128.72.2 is now mapped internally to 10.10.10.11, so I added
the same mapping but dig still reports the 202.128.72.2 number,
and that will no longer work from the inside?
Is there something that might be caching the old information even
after a system restart?
At this point to get it to work, I've had to point to there DNS server
that using 172.16.0.4? We've got less than 1000 machine on
campus, but they now have 10.x.x.x networks, and 172.16.x
networks and a number of 192.168.x networks...
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12 years, 9 months
any way to control disk order?
by Tom Horsley
My poor old system died, and I resurrected it by moving the
disks to an older system. For who knows what reason, the
kernel has decided to call the external USB drive I use for
backups /dev/sda (the old system called it /dev/sdc).
My internal sata disks are being called /dev/sdb and
/dev/sdc.
This screws with things like hddtemp where you have to
give it args like /dev/sda /dev/sdb.
I don't suppose there is any available mechanism for
forcefully inducing the kernel to enumerate removable
drives last?
12 years, 9 months
I think we need a discussion
by David L. Gehrt
These are a few thoughts that have been fermenting in my mind, but I view
this email as only a possible set of discussion topics. Anyway, I feel
better having said this.
I am a long time user of UNIX/Linux distributions: Slackware, RedHat,
Fedora, Suse and Ubuntu. I am of the opinion that Linux may be at or close
to a crossroad moving from a computing genre in which the users and
developers make cooperative decisions on alternative development paths to
one in which changes are imposed by developers. In my view this represents
A move from an open computing environment to a closed (or more closed) one.
For me it is not just that the Gnome2 environment is being replaced with a
new version, it is that this new version, Gnome3, was seemingly developed
without much consideration of how the former version, Gnome2, was being used
and then imposed on users.
If I am off base here I am confident that this forum will point out the nature and extent of the perceived errors.
I have long hoped for a future in which the UNIX/Linux computing environment
would become a more significant player in the desktop world of user
currently stuck with Microsoft Windows. But what seems to be happening is
that the user interfaces (UI) being developed being developed for the Linux
future are trending towards UI in Microsoft Windows.
What this seems to imply is that in the future the mainline Linux UI will be
characterized features imposed, and by lack of flexibility. This lack of
flexibility means that users are presented with a computing environment with
features thought desirable by developers and which provide little or no way
for users to modify their computing environment in ways that meet their
needs and preferences.
I suspect without knowing that this is someones idea of how to turn a profit
by moving Linux to more profitable place on corporate desktops. I am not
directing this criticism solely at the Gnome3 developers or the RedHat role
in the Fedora background. One need only look at the Unity desktop with
which Canonical is trying to replace its version of the Gnome desktop. It
seems to suffer some of the same inflexibility and misfeatures as I see with
Gnome3.
I say a pox on both these developments. At least in Ubuntu you have the
option of selecting the "classical" (Gnome2 or Gnome2 like) desktop on log
in. Having started an experiment with Ubuntu on a laptop to see if Windows
users might find it more usable than Fedora, I have now converted my laptops
to Ubuntu while waiting to see if there is anything left of the flexibility
and utility I used to see in the UNIX/Linux UI. If not, I despair.
As a footnote: I have observed over my decades using and developing
computing environments to replace a manual system or formerly use software
which users had used, any number of developed systems that were unused
because the people using them were not consulted about the new system.
There any number of expensive developments in the Government that have
failed because developers failed to consider the actual job to be supported
by software. The recent failed (or failing) computing system being
developed for the FBI. The beauty of Federal Government computing projects
is that their failures make news. I suspect business entities are more
successful at concealing the failures. he bottom line is that in he absence
of consultation with users s/w developers are not very good at meeting the
needs of users
As a country is the US becoming incompetent? The aforementioned s/w
development failures, NASA sending the Hubble up without checking the
collimation of the telescope first, the poor performance of our schools and
the failure to produce the scientists and engineers we need now. This does
not seem to be an exhaustive list of problems we face.
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