Has anybody on the list been involved with or heard about a 'Freedom Toaster' like implementation of a burn-on-demand floss kiosk in US libraries, particularly...
If you've played with it, what are your thoughts on Fedora Core 5? How is it on ease of use and installation? Is it worth trying to setup for a new user that...
I tried to update from FC4 to FC5 on a development server, which was a big mistake. I ended up doing a clean install of FC5 on the system and did a restore on...
I'll let you know when I get a valid boot media! LOL I downloaded the DVD ISO image on Friday and burned it to DVD with my iMac, but after trying at least a...
Lord Almighty, I'm ready to kill someone. The reason I downloaded FC5 was so that we could test Scalix <http://www.scalix.com> since it doesn't run on Solaris...
This may be of interest... PostPath is soon to offer a drop in replacement for Exchange and it runs on CentOS I hear.... It is brand new.. \ \Bob They even got...
... Sound like Tom is have a barrel of laughs. Seriously though, the general consensus is that FC5 is not really for "n00bs" but I've been pointed to a few...
Why are converted live cds good for new users? Ubuntu has a seriously painless install process (one disc), all the debian goodies (i.e. apt), you can get it...
... I will also give Ubuntu another spin. Seems like I tried it once but I've slept since then. :) -- Allen D. Tate Head of Computer Services Ohio Township...
If you have a fast network connection, the network install is pretty easy. Once you set your network source and directory correctly (the only real tricky part)...
Ubuntu is AWESOME. I have used it for my desktop at work (I spend a lot of time using it) for about a year now. I used SuSE 9.0, Slackware (some version),...
... I guess my biggest concern for any Linux Flavor is its compatibility with most sound cards. Since multimedia is such a major player with most folks I know,...
Never had a problem with sound and SuSE. Jim ... -- Jim Jones Systems Analyst University of Southern Indiana Computer Center 8600 University Blvd. Evansville,...
I believe most of the major distributions are pretty good about hardware detection, and if a linux driver exists in one distribution repository, I think it is...
... Hehe. I have my FTP Server running FreeBSD & vsftpd. AWESOME! ... No kidding. Those things are the work of the devil! -- Allen D. Tate Head of Computer...
Just a point of clarification. I'm not trying to REPLACE Exchange. We're trying to find something before someone (with power) suggests that we USE Exchange....
... Just to clarify my clarification, these are the specs for an ideal groupware calendar solution that I've been given. Shared Groupware Calendar Features and...
... I've installed OpenXchange (Free version) on a pair of FreeBSD machines. The Web interface is not wonderful, but it interoperates with clients very well....
I (and my Library) have been satisfied users of SuSE, too (from SuSE 8.0). But we're quickly moving over to Ubuntu on the 100 or so linux machines we have at...
That's the beauty of live-cd based distributions. you boot the cd, then check if all the hardware is working. If it is, great, you install the distro. If not,...
I upgraded a small test server to Fedora Core4.. Well, I guess you are supposed to to a pg_dump on your postgresql databases before a major release upgrade......
Sorry, the guts of this ( http://www.cooqy.com/ ) is way over my head. But it sounds very interesting and is using Open Laszlo (http://www.openlaszlo.org/), so...
Will you be sure to post your findings, Tom? ... -- Allen D. Tate Head of Computer Services Ohio Township Public Library System 4111 Lakeshore Dr PO Box 850 ...
Me? Never. :P ... -- Allen D. Tate Head of Computer Services Ohio Township Public Library System 4111 Lakeshore Dr PO Box 850 Newburgh, IN 47629 (812) 853-5468...
Way back to the beginning of this thread about FC5... A quick opinion. I started using FC4 as my desktop OS back around the first of the year and it was...
Does anyone out there get Sun Hardware at the Educational Discounts.. Public Libraries that is... Or, is this promotion limited to Research or Academic only? ...
I know someone with a LA36 DecWriter II (http://hampage.hu/pdp-11/1105.html) to give away. He bought it for $2300 in 1976, and put a 300/600/1200 baud serial...