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Good 2003 post on why to avoid Linux: Linux is a confused mess of beta quality software. Oldie but goodie. I don't see any serious objections to the OP. RL Linux is a confused mess of beta quality software. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.windows-xp/browse_thread/thread/285def7958ab8399/780fae888af6a1f5?hl=en&lnk=st&q=linux#780fae888af6a1f5 ... 2 Jul 2008 10:51
What Linux distro to use for old Intel machine, that fits on CDs? I have not been able to get a straight answer to this, despite almost a year of trying. Maybe three's the charm? Here goes again... I have an old machine, not my main machine, nearly in mothballs that somebody uses on occasion to surf the net and print a letter on a recent model HP inkjet using OpenOffice a... 19 Jul 2008 07:51
FF8 won't start up in Ubuntu any longer I'm using Ubuntu 8, updated OS and Firefox 3. All of a sudden when I try opening Firefox, it never finishes opening. No graphic. If I try opening it again, I get a message that it's already running. A "ps aux | grep firefox" shows a session. I can kill it and try starting again, but it just starts another session ... 27 Jun 2008 22:25
Which MTA/MDA? Here is my basic setup. I am runing one computer, which runs dual boot XP and debian. I have installed dsl on a small VM for the purposes of retrieving, processing and storing it in a folder accessible to both OSs. I also expect I will be reprocessing the email later as I refine my processing rules. Generally th... 29 Jun 2008 23:25
A new reader? Welcome to comp.os.linux.misc, read this first if you're new here (FAQ) Netiquette 2007-08#1 New reader? Great! Welcome! Here's how to make best use of this newsgroup and get yourself a slice of the best help available. Now read on ... TESTING YOUR CONNECTION Errm, first a delicate point. Often users accessing ... 27 Jun 2008 16:16
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directory data structure Hi I want to write a C program that can read directories (say list them as well). I found out that we could use an API provided by dirent.h header file, but I am not too keen on using the API. I want to access it directly without any API. Any help is welcome. Thank you. ... 29 Jun 2008 23:25
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best tool for creating a marquee animation on the Linux commandline Rahul wrote: I'm not sure if this is the best group for this question. I apologies if not and would appreciate leads to more appropriate groups. I wanted to create a infinitely scrolling "filmstrip" or marquee from a set of images. I'm not sure what's the right word; but basically I have a graph des... 27 Jun 2008 10:05
Tftp server problem hi Experts, I am facing some problem with tftp-server in Redhat linux Actually we used this tftp server for IOS image coping in to routers the problem is actually we installed tftp-server-0.40-1 package on my Redhat linux server and edited /etc/xinetd.d/tftp as below service tftp { socket_type ... 27 Jun 2008 03:57 |