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From: Archimedes' Lever on 30 Jan 2010 00:01 On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:23:21 -0800, "JosephKK"<quiettechblue(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:40:25 -0800 (PST), JeffM <jeffm_(a)email.com> wrote: > >>miso@ sushi.com wrote: >>>there seems to be less software set up specifically for opensuse >>>these days. [Usually Fedora is the target.] >>> >>The Debian repositories are at ~25,000 apps; >>Ubuntu's at ~26,000; Mint's, just a bit more. >> >>Last I heard, Fedora's was ~15,000. >>That last number is a bit dated, I'm sure. >> >>>It might be the issue that Suse got in bed with Novel >>> >>SuSE is wholly-owned by Novell. >> >>>and thus became on the hell freezes over list >>>for some developers. >>> >>Yup. The ten foot pole is often mentioned in that context. >>...but, as I mentioned earlier, >>the *alien* app can handle cross-package issues. > >There is one thing Fedora (red hat) has that most other distributions >don't, working gEDA/GAF. That is why i have live DVDs of fedora. Knoppix live DVD. http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/knoppix-dvd/ And the ISO: http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/knoppix-dvd/KNOPPIX_V6.2DVD-2009-11-18-EN.iso
From: miso on 30 Jan 2010 01:10 On Jan 29, 8:31 pm, "JosephKK"<quiettechb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:43:54 +0000, Baron <baron.nos...(a)linuxmaniac.nospam.net> wrote: > >AndyS Inscribed thus: > > >> Andy asks: > > >> I am considering switching from WINDOWS to UBUNTU, which is a > >> Linnux > >> based operating system. > > >> Has anyone here had any experience with it or have any pointers > >> that > >> I should be aware of ?? > > >> Thanks, > > >> AndyS W4OAH > > >Ubuntu makes easy things hard. Try others before making a firm choice.. > >Open SuSE <www.opensuse.org/en> > >Live CD's and full install DVD. > >Though my personal preference is version 11.0 with KDE3.5 desktop. > > My poised to be next production machine is OpenSuse 11.1 with KDE 3.5 DE. > KDE 4 is still not ready for prime time and is way too eye heroin (candy) > oriented. I've got open suse 11.2 with kde 4.3.1. No issues. Good for engineering, but for multimedia, you often spend a long time getting all the needed libraries. I started to load XBMC, but it's turning out to be a bear of a job. [I have vorbis, but it can't find it. Argh!] Myth was trivial by comparison. But for science and electronics, opensuse works well. I run into particle accelerator employees at a local coffee shop (no, really). They run a version of linux from CERN. http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/scientific.shtml
From: JeffM on 30 Jan 2010 01:38 JosephKK wrote: >There is one thing Fedora (red hat) has >that most other distributions don't, working gEDA/GAF. > From earlier in this thread: news:07c8750c-8763-45d7-8efb-51e3768f9005(a)b10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.design/msg/01978e01f676e390?q=Ubuntu-Electronics-Remix >That is why i have live DVDs of fedora. > Note that Fedora's *specialty* CD is mentioned there as well. It is called Fedora Electronic Lab spin. ....and, yes, that one has been out since late 2007. The *alien* app for cross-packaging installs has been mentioned as well.
From: MooseFET on 30 Jan 2010 11:30 On Jan 29, 8:09 pm, "JosephKK"<quiettechb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: [....] > > Unless you are into eye heroin (candy) i would not bother with it. Plasma > and compiz are rather well known to be rather buggy. I ran SuSE with Plasma just long enough to discover what a complete pigs breakfast it is. I found nothing about it better than the KDE3 that came with older versions and many things that we messed up. Lately I have become a bit of a fan of JWM for its lightness of weight and simple way of getting everything to do what it should.
From: MooseFET on 30 Jan 2010 11:59
On Jan 29, 8:31 pm, "JosephKK"<quiettechb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:43:54 +0000, Baron <baron.nos...(a)linuxmaniac.nospam.net> wrote: > >AndyS Inscribed thus: > > >> Andy asks: > > >> I am considering switching from WINDOWS to UBUNTU, which is a > >> Linnux > >> based operating system. > > >> Has anyone here had any experience with it or have any pointers > >> that > >> I should be aware of ?? > > >> Thanks, > > >> AndyS W4OAH > > >Ubuntu makes easy things hard. Try others before making a firm choice.. > >Open SuSE <www.opensuse.org/en> > >Live CD's and full install DVD. > >Though my personal preference is version 11.0 with KDE3.5 desktop. > > My poised to be next production machine is OpenSuse 11.1 with KDE 3.5 DE. > KDE 4 is still not ready for prime time and is way too eye heroin (candy) > oriented. I'm running 11.1 32 bit with KDE 3.5.10 I have a version of Dosemu, that I hacked installed so that I can do MESS-DOS programs. The I may publish the hack if I can get my boss to agree. One of the things I did was make it so that the "speaker" would come out the sound card and be fairly accurate about frequencies and durations. This is because one of the DOS programs that is used, used audio feedback to let you know what is happening while you are looking at what you are doing and not looking at the screen. I have Wine installed to do the few windows things I need to do. ExpressPCB works just fine under wine. I don't let it know that there is a network on the machine so it can't submit the PCB directly. Needless to say LTSpice works under wine as do all well written windows programs. I do all of my documents for others with Openoffice. I have better luck with the pictures in a document staying as they should than folks trading among MS Office seem to. Creating a PDF is the way to go if you want the document to look the same to everyone. |