Text 12951, 99 rader
Skriven 2009-07-15 19:15:36 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
  Kommentar till text 12950 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: keep a knockin' but you can't come in
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Hello Ed!

15 Jul 09 19:06, you wrote to me:

 RC>> I am ssh'ing in using ZOC, which I wouldnt do if had more real
 RC>> estate for keyboards and monitors at eye level. The monitors for
 RC>> the linux boxes are attached to those swing arms, which are
 RC>> perched above my primary monitors. I do have Synergy installed
 RC>> which allows me to control the Linux GUI desktop with my
 RC>> keyboard/mouse, by simply moving the mouse off certain edges of
 RC>> the screen, but I'd get a crick in my neck, so ssh is a pretty
 RC>> decent option.

 EH> You could really go headless on your linux box.

Box(es).. :-)

Got 2ofem (Third box is winders)

I tried that at one time by simply firing up a VNC client, but I do use
Multitail to follow the Fido logs to monitor da mail hub, so it is convenient
to have the monitors there. Back when I was using a less powerful machine, I
even disabled X and merely used a terminal to tail a couple logs. However these
boxes have plenty of horsies to not worry about a system drain. One of them is
a dual core processor, the other is the top Pentium 4 w/HT and both have 2gb
ram in them. The mailhub is one the latter.

Speaking of VNC, I upgraded the non-mailhub linux box from 8.04 to 9.04
yesterday (Did mailhub box this AM), I have a video card that required a third
party driver, so when the system restarted, I had no video under X..
Fortunately I remembered my VNC client and went in that way and used a earlier
driver which resolved the issues.

 RC>> Xandros and Ubuntu have made decent attempts to give a sense of
 RC>> familiarity to users of this variety.

 EH> The trouble with Xandros is that it is a commercial product and
 EH> requires users to pay for everything they could get for free by using
 EH> most other distros. Plus, Xandros uses their own custom version of
 EH> KDE.

Yes, I was using Xandros up to about May/June last year, that will teach me..

Like Gentoo, I dont think the Xandros team is into much development and it was
their version of KDE that gave me a bad opinion of it.

Xandros, compared to Ubuntu, the Ubuntu people are update-aholics, I very
rarely get more than a months uptime on Ubuntu because I usually see a kernel
update or some other module that requires a restart..

If it were not for a thunderstorm, I would have gotten a years uptime on the
Xandros setup, which speaks well for Linux's stability but poorly on Xandros
updates.

 EH> I have moved from Ubuntu to LinuxMint. I have used Slackware, Red Hat,
 EH> Mandrake/Mandriva, Fedora, Suse, Debian and even Yggdrasil.

I played with Red Hat and Mandrake..

I took the leap for mail hubbing under Suse Linux, then Xandros, now Ubuntu.

Of them all, I have to say I am most happy with Ubuntu.

 EH> It's amusing to witness the holy wars between the various distro
 EH> adherents.

Yup, in the end everybody should be happy with their choice and not unhappy
with the choices others make.

Reminds me of the Holy Wars here in Fidonet between the OS/2 users and the
Windows ones, even though in the 90's OS2 had a leg up as far as function and
stability.

I have my Warp disks around here somewhere.. :)

 >>>>> Complacency and/or ignorance.

 MK>>>> What's the difference?

 >>>> One is over confidence, the other doesnt know any better.

 MK>>> Don't both lead to the same end result?

 RC>> They lead to the same result but are different pathways.

 EH> So, in the end, there isn't much difference. ;-)

Not what I am saying, with complacency one should know better, with ignorance
the person does not.

==
Ross
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