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Skriven 2006-04-23 22:21:00 av MARTIN ATKINS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
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 MA> This system has glibc-2.3.5. I won't play with it because it's
 MA> Mandriva and i don't want to screw things up.

 MK> Not for me then since I seem to enjoy screwing ... errr ... playing
 MK> with things like kernels, compilers, libs, etc.

I do it all the time but being greedy i use the main server for
communication and use the secondary servers for back up if i stuff 
things up.

The thing is i test the latest releases for ease of installation
and explore them thoroughly. I can't get an accurate assesment if i 
have been screwing around with its guts.

 MA> I'm still waiting
 MA> to get a spare computer so i can experiment more.

 MK> Understood.  What is the dream machine?

So far it's a Dell Pentium 3 (coppermine) 930 with 256 ram running 
Mandriva 2006. This is the one i'll use for slack. I don't know what 
the next one will be as i usualy buy second hand.

 MA> My next project will be a slack but i'm on dial up so I'll wait
 MA> until i can afford something a little faster.

 MK> Nobody around there?  Usually there are linux groups where someone has
 MK> a burner and knows how to use it.  

Hmm! I never realy looked into it. I tend to do things by my self.
You must remember Linux users were considered nut cases and so i
don't much look to others for guidence.

 MK> Myself I am moving away from that
 MK> philosophy as I seem to prefer installing straight to targets but still
 MK> have a few iso's kicking around.  I was hoping to trade the dvd burner
 MK> for a decent motherboard and know someone who is interested.

I'm lucky in that i could afford a new dvd and cd on the one system.
Of course the old cd and floppy will be put in my oldest system which
through time has become deaf to the outside world. Other that is
than through NFS. I managed to kill my last server by a fundimental
mistake. I don't wish to talk about it because i loved that machine. ;)

 MA> gcc-4.0.1 here with no problems as such. I did have trouble trying
 MA> to compile a program called GPARTED. I haven't tried it on my backup
 MA> server yet. The system is older than this one so it might work.

 MK> Could be.  I haven't tried parted in a few years now.  Haven't had a
 MK> need for it but I could see it being an attractive idea to some.

I was just researching. It looks useful for a new hard disk.

 MA> Fedora doesn't get good press as far as i can see.

 MK> Not here that is for sure.

First impressions are seldom wrong.

 MA> Looking at the KDE
 MA> list seems to throw up more queries from that distro than most.
 MA> Perhaps it's a ploy by Redhat to make users consider RH enterprise.
 MA> ;)

 MK> I haven't looked at that as they never say what I would want to know.
 MK> Mind you I'd probably change everything anyhow so I suppose there would
 MK> be little point going that route.

The first monolithic install i played with i costomised the hell out of
it.  It's still alive today. However these days i'm interested in hardware
detection. I think it's probably because it was the first big hurdle
that open source programmers were faced with. I'm not a programmer but
i have this thing about people being able to use the hardware they
bought without having to pay a secondary software company to get it
to actually work.  


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