RE: Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?
by Michael.Coll-Barth@VerizonWireless.com
> From: Antonio Olivares
> To cat the free fish living in the sea, Les will need more
> than a free boat.
>
> He will also need Nets,
<snip>
> He does need much more? Yes GNU provides these things, but
> he does not want to give credit to them :( His company is
> Les Fishery Inc., Not Les/GNU Fishery Inc.
Good Grief! You almost make me want to stay as far away from GNU as
possible. At least with MS, I give them my money, I get no religion and
they go away.
:::slapping self with a REALLY big smelly GNU/fish:::
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15 years, 9 months
Patch bind to pluig Kaminsky DNS vulnerability for FC7?
by mike cloaked
Does anyone know if there is an easy way to fix bind (bind-chroot) running
in an old machine running FC7 so that it offers the same protection as
bind-chroot-9.5.0-28.P1.fc8
and
bind-9.5.0-33.P1.fc9.i386
??
Can one use the src rpm for F8 and re-configure it for FC7?
I guess there are still quite a lot of servers in use that are running
EOLed Fedoras.
15 years, 9 months
defaullt directory for terminals.
by Aaron Konstam
Does anyone want to defend the change to ~/Desktop as the default
directory in opened terminals, thus throwing away 20 or 30 years of
Unix, Linux and Microsoft tradition?
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15 years, 9 months
livcecd-iso-to-disk: USB key do not boot (BIOS setup is fine)
by Bruno Costacurta
Hello,
I'm trying to build a USB bootable key with file 'Fedora-9-i686-Live-KDE.iso'
Command is :
sudo livecd-iso-to disk Fedora-9-i686-Live-KDE.iso /dev/sdd1
which runs fine, boot loader included, and reports that USB key is
ready for use ... however the key is not ignored during boot (the sequence
continue correctly with following drive in the BIOS boot order).
I'm using an Asus eee pc (model 900) which is correctly configured to boot via
USB key as I tried it with a Debian bootable USB key which boots fine.
I also tried another .iso, (precisely the EEdora dedicated to Asus eee) but
got same problem.
---
fdisk -l /dev/sdd
Disk /dev/sdd: 1030 MB, 1030750208 bytes
32 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1014 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1984 * 512 = 1015808 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb0bcd68e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 1014 1005857 6 FAT16
---
which looks correct.
So opparently the problem come from livecd command whatever final report OK.
Is there some knwon problem with livecd-iso-to-disk ? I'm using Fedora-9.
Or can I build a USB key using another as a workaround ?
Many thanks for attention and any clue.
Bye,
Bruno
15 years, 9 months
No space for new partition on SATA drive, but 61GBfreespace
by Nigel Henry
This is the first time that I've used SATA harddrives on this new machine that
I've built, so am a bit in the dark.
Fedora 8 is using sda1 for / , and sda2 for /home. sda3 is swap
sda4 (the 4th primary is the extended partition)
sda5, and 6, are / , and /home for another linux distro
sda7, and 8, are / , and /home for another linux distro
sda9, and 10, are / , and /home for yet another linux distro
sda11, and 12, are / , and /home for another linux distro
There is still showing 61020 MB of free space on the drive, but trying to
create a new partition for the install of Fedora 9, with 10000MB for / I get
the following output. Written in freehand.
Error Partitioning
ould not allocate requested partitions: Partitioning failed: Could not
allocate partitions as primary partitions. Not enough space left to create
partition for /.
I'm sure I've seen some stuff about partition limits on SATA drives, but can't
remember where. If there are limits, are there any workarounds so that I can
use this 61+GB of freespace.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Nigel.
15 years, 9 months
F8 is a problem
by Karl Larsen
Yes I know Fedora is a testing ground. Yes I know most of you tigers
think I am stupid and for some good grounds. But I am a muli-million
dollar person who worries not about gasoline prices or where the next
meal comes from.
But I DO worry why I can't get F8 to work. It works a few days and
then goes to hell. So I am back here on F7 which seems to work well. At
least the audio is good and I can do things I must.
Karl
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15 years, 9 months
SElinux and Brother printer driver problem on F8
by Bernd Bartmann
Hi,
I installed the CUPS printer drivers for my MFC-9840CDW on my F8
system and followed the instructions from
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/linux_faq-2.html#30
to update the SElinux rules.
Printing itself works fine, but the page size is not correct. I need
A4, but all prints come out as Letter altough A4 is set in the printer
config tool. Now, whenever I print something I get a SElinux warning:
SELinux is preventing brprintconf_mfc (cupsd_t) "write" to ./inf (usr_t).
I had a look at the files under
/usr/local/Brother/Printer/mfc9840cdw/inf/ and they all contain the
wrong "Letter" setting. I suspect that the printer drivers want to
change the settings in these files to "A4", but fails due to the
SElinux issue.
What rule do I have to put where to solve this issue?
Best regards,
Bernd
15 years, 9 months
vim syntax highlight F9
by Marcelo Garcia
Hi
How to enable syntax highlighting in vim? I tried to put "syntax on" on
/etc/vimrc and on my "~/.vimrc" and does not work. I have the following
vim packages installed:
[root@newt set_new_machine]# yum list installed vim*
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
vim-common.i386 2:7.1.291-1.fc9
installed
vim-enhanced.i386 2:7.1.291-1.fc9
installed
vim-minimal.i386 2:7.1.291-1.fc9
installed
Does anyone know how to solve this?
Thanks
Marcelo
15 years, 9 months