Corporate creep in Linux? (mini-rantette)
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From: dae3 on 11 Sep 2009 01:37 Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote: > Whats wrong with RXVT? > > If you want extended function, MRXVT? For that matter, I wonder what's wrong with xterm... -- ~> cat /etc/*-{version,release}|head -n1 && uname -moprs|fold -sw72 Slackware 12.2.0 Linux 2.6.27.7-crrm i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 GNU/Linux
From: dae3 on 11 Sep 2009 01:49 Michael Black <et472(a)ncf.ca> wrote: > But Linux from Scratch isn't a distribution. It's the steps needed to > build up Linux/GNU from the pool of components that already exists. Exactly. That's why I think that, if a new distro aimed at the same goals as Slackware, it had better be based on LFS (that is, done from scratch) and not on some other distro. -- ~> cat /etc/*-{version,release}|head -n1 && uname -moprs|fold -sw72 Slackware 12.2.0 Linux 2.6.27.7-crrm i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 GNU/Linux
From: Peter Chant on 11 Sep 2009 02:35 ~kurt wrote: > Peter Chant <REMpeteOVE(a)petezilla.co.uk> wrote: >> >> Is it not a good idea to have the OS ask if you want USB sticks mounted >> in one click when you plug them in, rather than have root mount them for >> you? > > No, I'd rather have it mount when I tell it to mount as a normal user. > Just because I stick it into the computer, it doesn't mean I'm ready to > use it, or want to have my train of thought interrupted by a stupid > popup window asking me stupid questions. > Why would you put in a USB stick and then not use it. You don't put bread in the toaster because you want to make toast sometime later on in the week, you put bread in the toaster because you want toast now. OTOH USB sticks don't go stale... > Now, maybe the installer could question the user for all sorts of > options like this. That would make the installation take a lot longer > for many of us though. > If you don't put yourself in the plugdev group you don't get allowed to do it anyway, no config required... -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk
From: Peter Chant on 11 Sep 2009 02:38 dae3 wrote: > Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote: > >> Whats wrong with RXVT? >> >> If you want extended function, MRXVT? > > > For that matter, I wonder what's wrong with xterm... > > ....or connecting a teletype to your serial port... -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk
From: Glyn Millington on 11 Sep 2009 02:44
Kees Theunissen <theuniss(a)rijnh.nl> writes: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:36:15 +0000, notbob wrote: >> >> Slack is not totally immune. I just used xwmconfig to change from >> default kde to fluxbox. What do I get when I invoke startx? twm! What >> the...?? Yes, the symlink is xinitrc -> xinitrc.fluxbox, but it goes to >> twm. In fact, now matter what wm I choose with xwmconfig, I get twm. >> I'm reduced to using startx /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.foowm to get the wm I >> want. So much for autoconfig. > > Regardless of all supposed-auto-bloat-ware it's still allowed to RTFM. > Did you read the xwmconfig(1) manpage? > And while doing so, did you notice: > "When run by a non-root user, xwmconfig writes out a $HOME/.xinitrc > file, allowing the user to choose their own default window manager > (possibly overriding the one chosen as a system default)"? > > SNIP .... This didn't change for a long time and I don't expect this > changed with the 13.0 release. It didn't. I think the answer to all tis stuff is, as you say, to RTFM - as it always has been with Slackware I think. But one of the problems is that many of the docs are getting a little dated and to find up-to-date information can be more tricky at times, especially for the newer users who may not be sure of the right terms to enter into Goolge and who want something a little less forbidding than the man pages! So I'm *really* looking forward to the next edition of the Slackware book :-) atb Glyn -- RTFM http://www.tldp.org/index.html GAFC http://slackbook.org/ The Official Source :-) STFW http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=alt.os.linux.slackware JFGI http://jfgi.us/ |