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Waiting for this new install of linux to finish updating itself. It's taking waaay too long for my liking.
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the scarey thing is that i'm old enough to remember this from the first time round.
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DrEntropy said:
Worse - this is Xandros (which is Debian I guess). It might as well be windows for all the work I had to do...
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Begs the question - why?
I'm installing eclipse right now - I subverted apt-get to go off and look at the regualar debian servers rather than the (slimmer) pickings at the xandros site. Seems I was missing quite a number of upgrades...
And I'm still bored.
I'm installing eclipse right now - I subverted apt-get to go off and look at the regualar debian servers rather than the (slimmer) pickings at the xandros site. Seems I was missing quite a number of upgrades...
And I'm still bored.
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DrEntropy said:
It's the RUTABAGA Doc. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
Stuart. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif
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DrEntropy said:
ugh... HORDE = "enterprise ready, browser based collaboration suite."
already too many [censored] buzzwords. Sounds like something right up my IT Director's alley.....
I think I should suggest it so that it spawns a few dozen MORE useless meetings I have to suffer through.
I'm bored too and I just spent an HOUR in a meeting with 8 people to clarify the change of 2 (countem TWO) IP addresses on my new AS400 boxen.
My doodling skills are getting pretty good tho'
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of course i screwed myself installing a kde upgrade.
i'm stuck with the bash shell and another pc for searching for a fix...
i'm stuck with the bash shell and another pc for searching for a fix...
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alana said:
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can anyone say 'shadenfruede'
yer scarin me though... I am almost ready to take the plunge - i've weaned mesself from all the 'windoze' only gadgets I need to make a living around here save one. And of course it is written by IBM in java /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/pukeface.gif ...and of course IBM being IBM there is not a port to linux.
java: write once, run anywhere???? not...
more like write once, crash everywhere....
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xandros comes with a customised kde, so i thought the path of least resistance would be to update it. just goes to show that i'm a winner with linux.
back to the mainframe i go...
back to the mainframe i go...
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Here's a great time waster for you to goof around with when you're bored...
https://flightsimx.archive.amnesia.com.au/
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I lost the GNOME GUI here last week because I was tired and during an "update" hit the "Y"... too late by a nanosecond realized my idiocy... spent half a day re-knitting it 'cause I'm too lazy now to do command line for everything. I do like GNOME better'n KDE tho. And now am scrounging about for a box to bend all this ~stuff~ into so's I don't FUBAR this'n again. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
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No, its the "Roaming Gnome":GregW said:
Where will that Gnome appear next?
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jsneddon said:
Just curious - what is it that you are using?
If you saw the amount of time and $ they are spending selling z/VM (at least where I work, where currently it's being treated like the second coming) you might well think that Linux is going to replace everything, and all the necessary software will be available forthwith.
Of course all our client-facing code is back ended on z/OS, but why confuse anyone with the facts...
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client pc is XP. I am the admin for a slew of AS/400's (or iSeries if you stick with the latest flavor of the week by IBM marketing). Basically mini-mainframes servicing about 20K users. Backend is all OS/400 for the core and a mix of RedHat boxen and XP blades for the peripheral stuff.
So I know enough linux to get around and I'm tired of the bi-monthly re-installs of XP on my grunt machine. I'm probably going to load Fedora Core to get used to it and then start playing around with other distros when I find a need.
IBM is touting Linux as the second coming for the OS/400 people too. But yet they have an admin tool for the as400 that does about 3 unique things that I can't do via command line on a terminal... and they only supply it as a windows executable although it is obviously written in Java (ugly Swing interfaces and slow as seal snot in Antarctica).
I'm just going to load it on some other dedicated xp server and remote into it when I need to use it and I'll be good. I'm not interested in screwing around with dual boot or any of that stuff.
I just need to take the plunge and do it now. My linux buddy keeps telling me to quit sticking my toe in the water and just jump already.
I'll probably do it in a couple of weeks - I'm not going to bork my grunt laptop 3 days before migrating all my old AS400's to our newer faster better AS400's. I've got plenty of stuff on my plate - no need to shoot off my foot right now.
So what is your opinion of Fedora Core?
So I know enough linux to get around and I'm tired of the bi-monthly re-installs of XP on my grunt machine. I'm probably going to load Fedora Core to get used to it and then start playing around with other distros when I find a need.
IBM is touting Linux as the second coming for the OS/400 people too. But yet they have an admin tool for the as400 that does about 3 unique things that I can't do via command line on a terminal... and they only supply it as a windows executable although it is obviously written in Java (ugly Swing interfaces and slow as seal snot in Antarctica).
I'm just going to load it on some other dedicated xp server and remote into it when I need to use it and I'll be good. I'm not interested in screwing around with dual boot or any of that stuff.
I just need to take the plunge and do it now. My linux buddy keeps telling me to quit sticking my toe in the water and just jump already.
I'll probably do it in a couple of weeks - I'm not going to bork my grunt laptop 3 days before migrating all my old AS400's to our newer faster better AS400's. I've got plenty of stuff on my plate - no need to shoot off my foot right now.
So what is your opinion of Fedora Core?