Can I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 free developers subscription as a desktop with GUI?

Subject: Can I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 free developers subscription as a desktop with GUI? Good day from Singapore, Can I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 free developers subscription as a desktop with GUI like GNOME? Looking forward to your reply. Thank you. Regards, Mr

Re: How to add an icon to the desktop?

> On Monday 20 October 2003 17:58, Andre Kirchner wrote: > > I'm using RH9 with Blue Curve desktop, and I'm trying > > without success to add an application to a menu. Does > > anyone know how do I do it, or where can I find > > information about it? the whol

Re: How to add an icon to the desktop?

On Monday 20 October 2003 17:58, Andre Kirchner wrote: > I'm using RH9 with Blue Curve desktop, and I'm trying > without success to add an application to a menu. Does > anyone know how do I do it, or where can I find > information about it? Your subject says "add a

How to add an icon to the desktop?

Hi, I'm using RH9 with Blue Curve desktop, and I'm trying without success to add an application to a menu. Does anyone know how do I do it, or where can I find information about it? Thanks, Andre __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improv

Re: OS Desktop Business Model?

n programs to add, perhaps customizing them to work together better, etc. Jon On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote: > Given that most of Microsoft's profit comes from the desktop, I'm wondering: > if Linux, as I see it, is on its way to becoming a complete, co

Re: OS Desktop Business Model?

IMHO, putting Gnome and KDE toy desktops with Linux is a mistake in an effort to try and draw Windows users away from windows. Gnome and KDE look SO amatureish and unprofessional. Even XFCE which looked a lot like CDE has started to look like Gnome. CDE is the most professional desktop I&#x

RE: OS Desktop Business Model?

acOSX interface just more keyboard friendly. Wade -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of T. Ribbrock Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 5:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OS Desktop Business Model? On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:49:46PM -0500,

Re: OS Desktop Business Model?

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:49:46PM -0500, Jeff Wimmer wrote: [...] > Gnome and KDE look > SO amatureish and unprofessional. Even XFCE which looked a lot like CDE has > started to look like Gnome. CDE is the most professional desktop I've seen > on linux, [...] Ahem. You *are* a

Re: OS Desktop Business Model?

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 09:17:37AM -0400, Kevin MacNeil wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:54:46PM -0700, bruce wrote: > > > my $0.02 worth..and i don't normally follow this group/thread for > > linux to compete/succeed against windows/msoft on the desktop... there

Re: OS Desktop Business Model?

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:54:46PM -0700, bruce wrote: > my $0.02 worth..and i don't normally follow this group/thread for > linux to compete/succeed against windows/msoft on the desktop... there > needs to be a rock solid office set of apps... for 20% of the price... > >

RE: OS Desktop Business Model?

hey... my $0.02 worth..and i don't normally follow this group/thread for linux to compete/succeed against windows/msoft on the desktop... there needs to be a rock solid office set of apps... for 20% of the price... then you would see msoft fall like a rock... if oracle put in a $1 bi

Re: OS Desktop Business Model?

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:55, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:49:46PM -0500, Jeff Wimmer wrote: > > > at a reasonable price and marketed correctly with Openoffice, they'll have a > > desktop that competes hands down with Windows. > > There's still

Re: OS Desktop Business Model?

Ed Wilts: >What makes you think that Red Hat has given up on the desktop? There is >the current RHEL WS line although I will agree that for the home user, >this doesn't compete with Windows for pricing. Well, we all know now that the Red Hat Linux boxed set was not profitable.

Re: OS Desktop Business Model?

So very true. JEFFREY WIMMER - Original Message - From: "Hal Burgiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 5:55 PM Subject: Re: OS Desktop Business Model? > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:49:46PM -0500, Jeff Wimmer wro

Re: OS Desktop Business Model?

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:49:46PM -0500, Jeff Wimmer wrote: > at a reasonable price and marketed correctly with Openoffice, they'll have a > desktop that competes hands down with Windows. There's still one big difference ... windows is for weenies, and Linux is not.

Re: OS Desktop Business Model?

- Original Message - From: "Ed Wilts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 4:36 PM Subject: Re: OS Desktop Business Model? > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:28:16PM -0300, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote: > > Given

Re: OS Desktop Business Model?

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:36, Ed Wilts wrote: > I believe that we will soon see Red Hat make a push back into the SOHO > market with a new boxed product that will be very competitive against > Windows (financially)... It would not surprise me to see a big push > into other markets with this produc

Re: OS Desktop Business Model?

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:28:16PM -0300, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote: > Given that most of Microsoft's profit comes from the desktop, I'm wondering: > if Linux, as I see it, is on its way to becoming a complete, competitive > desktop system, would this money simpl

OS Desktop Business Model?

Given that most of Microsoft's profit comes from the desktop, I'm wondering: if Linux, as I see it, is on its way to becoming a complete, competitive desktop system, would this money simply cease to flow? Is there any model at sight for profitable Desktop distros? It looks like RedHat

How to create desktop icon/link to executable w/o showing run/edit dialog

I have installed firebird and thunderbird (which work flawlessly with certs unlike Mozilla, Netscape, or IE or Eudora) and wanted to create a simple link to them on my desktop. Best I can do is create a link to them using the file browser (or create a shell script...but this opens an extra

Re: Desktop

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 12:56, Hotmail 2 wrote: > Yes I do log in with KDE and I have tried to search on the whole HD but > nothing ...! (sic) > > FT That being the case, then it would appear that you'd need to reinstall KDE all over again - and make sure that you DO install all the bits'n'bobs of

Re: Desktop

Yes I do log in with KDE and I have tried to search on the whole HD but nothing ...! (sic) FT - Original Message - From: "Stephen Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 8:14 AM Subject: Re: Desktop > On Thu, 200

Re: Desktop

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 01:08, fabrice trichard wrote: > Yes I get the following when I click on the taskbar icons they look like a > kde wheel : > > Unable to run the command specified.The file or directory > file:/usr/share/applnk/Editors/Kwrite.desktop does not exist > > and for all icons

Re: Desktop

[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Desktop Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:51:36 +1000 On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 13:07, Hotmail 2 wrote: > Hi all, > new to Linux 8.0 > > I do not have the icons on the taskbar or no links to them ...any idea?? > > Thanks Is there any way

Re: Desktop

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 13:07, Hotmail 2 wrote: > Hi all, > new to Linux 8.0 > > I do not have the icons on the taskbar or no links to them ...any idea?? > > Thanks Is there any way you can be slightly more descriptive? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer servi

Desktop

Hi all, new to Linux 8.0 I do not have the icons on the taskbar or no links to them ...any idea?? Thanks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Name the damen that runs on the desktop that has the drop down menu

Clark wrote: Does any one know the name of the damen ( or program )that runs to give you the Drop down menu on the desktop ( gnome ) when you right click on the background ? ( you get terminal, new window and other things ) Version RH 9 would okay, Nautilus What config file turns it back on

Re: Name the damen that runs on the desktop that has the drop down menu

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 19:12, Clark wrote: > Does any one know the name of the damen ( or program )that runs to give you > the > Drop down menu on the desktop ( gnome ) when you right click on the > background ? > ( you get terminal, new window and other things ) Version RH 9 would o

Name the damen that runs on the desktop that has the drop down menu

Does any one know the name of the damen ( or program )that runs to give you the Drop down menu on the desktop ( gnome ) when you right click on the background ? ( you get terminal, new window and other things ) Version RH 9 would okay, What config file turns it back on ? Thanks Clark

Re: LAN Desktop Sharing

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 15:59, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > What do you mean by race condition? If the machine where you're working on run > X server (level 5) and KDE, and you want to run another X client application > from the server, you just SSH and run it, provided you setup the environement

Re: LAN Desktop Sharing

On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:47 pm, David Hart wrote: > While our server runs level 3, from time to time running an X > application remotely makes sense. To that end KDE is installed on the > machine. From SSH, I can run an X application. However, inexplicably it > ultimately creates a race cond

LAN Desktop Sharing

locks up. I thought that I might be able to accomplish this better with desktop sharing but that seems designed for access from the WAN, requires invitations and expires in an hour. Are there any alternatives that anyone might be aware of

problem with GNOME desktop

Hi, I am having a problem with GNOME. I find that after logging in, if I lock the screen and don't work on the computer for a while, I automatically get logged out and come back to the login screen. I did not face this problem with 7.1. Is there some configuration that I need to do for this. T

VNC: unreadable text., viewing Gnome desktop from Windows98

VNC 3.3.6, RH 7.2, Gnome desktop When viewing my Linux/Gnome desktop w/ a VNC viewer from Win98, there are cases where I am unable to read text. Instead of readable letters I see a bunch of outlines of small boxes. I can see this text fine when I'm on the Linux console, but not when

Re: Samba, LAN browsing and desktop sharing.

bEEnHeX wrote: Hi there, Hey there yourself. guys, I have three questions, I hope that if anybody could be so kind and help me with any of them ... I haven't seen you on the list before. Did you read the welcoming letter? Please always specify which versions of things you are running and don't

Re: Lost my desktop

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 08:16:05AM -0400, Thomas E. Dukes wrote: > Hello, > > This is weird. I did a re-boot (was setting up NFS) and when it came > back up and I logged in, I don't have any desktop icons nor can I > right-click on the desktop to re-create them. I have tri

RE: Lost my desktop

Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David > Eduardo Gomez Noguera > Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 11:30 AM > To: redhat list > Subject: Re: Lost my desktop > > > On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 07:16, Thomas E. Dukes wrote: > > Hello,

Lost my desktop

Hello, This is weird. I did a re-boot (was setting up NFS) and when it came back up and I logged in, I don't have any desktop icons nor can I right-click on the desktop to re-create them. I have tried logging out and back in and re-booting numerous times but still no desktop. The gnome

Samba, LAN browsing and desktop sharing.

ing ... Everytime I try to access lan:// from Konqueror browser, it displays error message that klauncher cannot initialize kio_slave or something. Please, how to enable LAN browsing ? THIRD: Desktop sharing is also not working for me. Whenever I try to access this module in Control Center it displ

Re: KDE Desktop Icons

On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 23:08:32 -0500 Kevin Brazell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to change the icon of a application on the KDE desktop but > can't seem to be able to. In gnome I found it but not in KDE. Can someone > tell me what I need to do?

Re: Lost my desktop

On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 07:16, Thomas E. Dukes wrote: > Hello, > > This is weird. I did a re-boot (was setting up NFS) and when it came > back up and I logged in, I don't have any desktop icons nor can I > right-click on the desktop to re-create them. I have tried logging out

KDE Desktop Icons

Hi, I would like to change the icon of a application on the KDE desktop but can't seem to be able to. In gnome I found it but not in KDE. Can someone tell me what I need to do? Red Hat 9.1 KDE 3.1 Thanks Kevin B -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Customizing default RH (Gnome) desktop

Does anyone on the list know how one would go about customizing RH's default desktop? Specifically, I'm looking to do things like: 1) Get rid of the RHN applet (and maybe add my own) 2) Set a default wallpaper 3) Set default desktop icons 4) Set default panel icons (get rid of Presenta

Re: overview of files/directories for gnome desktop?

On Mi, 2003-07-16 at 19:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > in terms of actual apps. unlike icons on the panel or in the > menus, right-clicking on these desktop icons and asking for > "Properties" doesn't specifically list what the icon represents. known bug ( status=assig

overview of files/directories for gnome desktop?

i'm trying to throw together a short tutorial for new users on using the stock GNOME desktop that comes with RH 9 and, since i typically have scripts to do most of what i want, i've rarely used the standard icons so i have a couple simple questions that lead into a more complicate

RE: pc vendors offering linux on desktop

, you can't get Redhat on them from the factory. Trevor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris W. Parker Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 10:12 AM To: Redhatlist (E-mail) Subject: pc vendors offering linux on desktop Hello, What, if any, v

pc vendors offering linux on desktop

Hello, What, if any, vendors out there offer Red Hat as the OS on their desktop pcs? I know it's offered on the server level, but I haven't found one that offers it on the desktop. Then again I haven't looked at every pc in the big name vendor websites, just a few models. Anyon

Re: desktop

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 8:32 pm, John Salamone wrote: > hi, > > I do not know how or what happened but I lost the icons from my desktop. I > was logged on as root and mistakenly hard booted my computer. When I logged > back on my desktop icons (root's home, start home and tra

Re: desktop

Agreed...thanks!! - Original Message - From: Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:47 PM Subject: Re: desktop > On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 13:33, John Salamone wrote: > > When I log on as myself instead of root the icon

Re: desktop

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 13:33, John Salamone wrote: > When I log on as myself instead of root the icons my home, start here, and > trash ARE there but not as root. The point is that you should *never* run X as root. Always log in as yourself and use "su -" in an xterm if you need to do administrati

Re: desktop

John Salamone said: > When I log on as myself instead of root the icons my home, start here, > and trash ARE there but not as root. Hm. At this point, then, check the contents of /home/root/.gnome-desktop Sliante, Richard S. Crawford http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 1164

Re: desktop

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 13:36, Richard Crawford wrote: > John Salamone said: > > > following output showed: nautilus --no-def, nautilus, and grep > > nautilus running. > > Ah. > > You might try killing those nautilus processes at the command line. killall -9 nautilus -- Cliff Wells, Software

Re: desktop

I killed the processes after logging in as myself, logged off, then logged back on as root and all my desktop icons appeared. Thanks for everyones help!! - Original Message - From: Richard Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08,

Re: desktop

When I log on as myself instead of root the icons my home, start here, and trash ARE there but not as root. - Original Message - From: Richard Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:36 PM Subject: Re: desktop > Joh

Re: desktop

John Salamone said: > following output showed: nautilus --no-def, nautilus, and grep > nautilus running. Ah. You might try killing those nautilus processes at the command line. When you ran ps -aux you got an output like: root 721 0.0 0.1 5596 508 ? S Jun08 0:31 nautilus The second num

Re: desktop

John Salamone said: > RE: desktopafter typing ps -a i received the following outputPID > TTYTIME CMD >2015 > pts/0 > > > 00:00 > > > ps # ps -a will not show you all processes running. Check out man ps. Try #

Re: desktop

following output showed: nautilus --no-def, nautilus, and grep nautilus running. - Original Message - From: Richard Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: Re: desktop > John Salamone said: > > > Sor

Re: desktop

Title: RE: desktop after typing ps -a i received the following output    PID  TTY        TIME  CMD    2015 pts/0 00:00    ps - Original Message - From: Mark Haney To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: desktop

John Salamone wrote: > Sorry...newbie here but how would I check for other nautilus > processes running? # top or # ps aux|grep nautilus one of those should work (me thinks). c. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.

Re: desktop

John Salamone said: > Sorry...newbie here but how would I check for other nautilus processes > running? Try: # ps -aux | grep nautilus Although I once again urge that you not log in to X as root; use a user account instead. Sliante, Richard S. Crawford http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K

RE: desktop

Title: RE: desktop -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ps -a will show you all processes running. - -Original Message- From: John Salamone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: desktop Sorry...newbie here

Adding "Start Menu" Entries (Was: desktop)

Mark Haney wrote: You know, while we are on this subject (sorry I have nothing to offer except another question) how do I add shortcuts to the 'Start Menu' in GNOME? I want to add some new shortcuts and can't figure out how. You know, that is a Damn Good (tm) question. :-) I've been struggling

Re: desktop

Sorry...newbie here but how would I check for other nautilus processes running? - Original Message - From: Richard Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:13 PM Subject: Re: desktop > John Salamone said: > > > I tri

Re: desktop

John Salamone said: > I tried this and the output I received was [1] 1916 and the back to the > command prompt. Any ideas? Weird. Check to see if there are any other Nautilus processes running. Sliante, Richard S. Crawford http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Y!: rscrawford MSN

RE: desktop

Title: RE: desktop -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Exactly what I wanted.  Thanks. - -Original Message- From: Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: desktop For

Re: desktop

I tried this and the output I received was [1] 1916 and the back to the command prompt. Any ideas? - Original Message - From: Matt Ryanczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:51 PM Subject: RE: desktop > It sounds like Nautilus

RE: desktop

Title: RE: desktop For editing GNOME menus in redhat , this is a very useful link. Please go thorugh it and you will be able to add new shortcuts in menu and delete the unwanted permanently. The same applies to KDE also.    The important files for menu organization are

RE: desktop

It sounds like Nautilus is not starting. Nautilus controls the desktop icons. Try starting nautiul form the "run" menu or from a console window by typing "nautilus &". On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:40, Mark Haney wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1

Re: desktop

I tried starting nautilus following the command prompt # nautilus but it is just hanging? Any ideas? - Original Message - From: Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:46 PM Subject: Re: desktop > On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 12:32

RE: desktop

No , the one which I said earlier will work for both. Please check. Try to copy the files in /usr/share/apps/kdesktop/DesktopLinks/ to $HOME/Desktop/ directory.  That should work and restore your desktop shortcuts.     -Original Message-From: John Salamone

Re: desktop

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 12:32, John Salamone wrote: > I do not know how or what happened but I lost the icons from my > desktop. I was logged on as root and mistakenly hard booted my > computer. When I logged back on my desktop icons (root's home, start > home and trash) did not a

Re: desktop

If I tried the following would the correct syntax be: "cp /usr/share/apps/gnomedesktop/DesktopLinks/*  $HOME/.gnome/Desktop/ " if I am using GNOME?  - Original Message - From: Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July

Re: desktop

John Salamone said: > Can someone help me out with what I can do to fix this problem? Also, is > there a log I can look at to see how this happened? Your help would be > greatly appreciated. John, What desktop environment are you using? I run GNOME/Nautlius on my system, and I saw exa

RE: desktop

: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: desktop hi,   I do not know how or what happened but I lost the icons from my desktop. I was logged on as root and mistakenly hard booted my computer. When I logged back on my desktop icons (root's home, start home and trash) did not appear. I did have

RE: desktop

Do " # cp /usr/share/apps/kdesktop/DesktopLinks/*  $HOME/.kde/Desktop/ " if you are running KDE maybe same will work for even GNOME   cheers.. Pradeep     -Original Message-From: John Salamone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, July 08,

RE: desktop

Title: RE: desktop -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You know, while we are on this subject (sorry I have nothing to offer except another question) how do I add shortcuts to the 'Start Menu' in GNOME?  I want to add some new shortcuts and can't figure out how.

desktop

hi,   I do not know how or what happened but I lost the icons from my desktop. I was logged on as root and mistakenly hard booted my computer. When I logged back on my desktop icons (root's home, start home and trash) did not appear. I did have icons on the bottom of the panel, which

Re: GNOME desktop (and Evolution) has been destroyed: SOLVED.

ut of this. Regards, Darνo Mariani wrote: Search for .gnome* file and directories in your home dir. Panos Tsapralis wrote: My GNOME desktop environment has been corrupted and is unusable. When I log on to GNOME, several empty dialog boxes are displayed (I can understand that they refer to error

Re: GNOME desktop (and Evolution) has been destroyed.

On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 08:14, Panos Tsapralis wrote: > My GNOME desktop environment has been corrupted and is unusable. When I log on > to GNOME, several empty dialog boxes are displayed (I can understand that they > refer to errors, since they have a red stop sign above the "OK

Re: GNOME desktop (and Evolution) has been destroyed.

Search for .gnome* file and directories in your home dir. Panos Tsapralis wrote: My GNOME desktop environment has been corrupted and is unusable. When I log on to GNOME, several empty dialog boxes are displayed (I can understand that they refer to errors, since they have a red stop sign

GNOME desktop (and Evolution) has been destroyed.

My GNOME desktop environment has been corrupted and is unusable. When I log on to GNOME, several empty dialog boxes are displayed (I can understand that they refer to errors, since they have a red stop sign above the "OK" button), all menus are gone, no panel to the bottom of the sc

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:39:46AM -0700, Lazor, Ed wrote: > Nope - no hard drive, just ram and rom. You flash the rom to upgrade the OS. > Everything runs remotely through Citrix. Actually, the HD vs. flash is not the issue here. It's the local boot of WinCE (with associated license) vs. the net

RE: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?]

Nope - no hard drive, just ram and rom. You flash the rom to upgrade the OS. Everything runs remotely through Citrix. > -Original Message- > Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the assumption > that all of > the WinTerminals required a small hard drive containing > WinCE, w

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slower thanWindows98SE. Any advice?]

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the assumption that all of the WinTerminals required a small hard drive containing WinCE, while the Linux boxes can boot directly off the network. However, those Sun boxes look pretty sweet, although they're expensive, too. Jon -- redhat-list mail

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:21:42PM +0300, Panos Platon Tsapralis wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 17:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:18:31PM +0300, Panos Platon Tsapralis wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 12:16, Peter Peltonen wrote: > > > > > > > Instead of 50 workstati

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slower thanWindows98SE. Any advice?]

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:21, Panos Platon Tsapralis wrote: > > Errr - no, Sun has been offering setups like this for ages... > > > For FREE? I don't think so!... H, well not free, but ... Forget the server box; you have to buy the hardware no matter what, some is just more expensive than th

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slowerthan Windows98SE. Any advice?]

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 17:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:18:31PM +0300, Panos Platon Tsapralis wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 12:16, Peter Peltonen wrote: > > > > > Instead of 50 workstations under heavy load have 50 clients getting > > > their X sessions from a server

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slower thanWindows98SE. Any advice?]

respond to redhat-list To: RedHatList <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: bcc: Subject: Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?] On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:18:31PM +0300, Panos Platon Tsapralis wrote:> On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 12:16, Peter Pelto

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:18:31PM +0300, Panos Platon Tsapralis wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 12:16, Peter Peltonen wrote: > > > Instead of 50 workstations under heavy load have 50 clients getting > > their X sessions from a server having good hardware and lots of memory. > > Makes system admini

Re: Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slower thanWindows98SE. Any advice?]

X-No-Archive: Yes I really like CrossOver Office, a commercially sold quick and stable version of Wine, specially for running MS Office 2000. It's only $55 and available at http://www.codeweavers.com OOo has quirks in MS documents export and this is a nice solution if you already have a (corporat

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slower thanWindows98SE. Any advice?]

> Unfortunately, most docs (inc. presentation and excel) is not simple, > sometime macro and other stuff are (spell checking etc) consider :=( AbiWord has spell checking and document embedding. There are other Office-compatible solutions as well, such as Hancom Office. OO.o is only one of the ch

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slower thanWindows98SE. Any advice?]

> Its not c/s oracle, but using apps 11i (similar java applet, but runs > on oracle owns jvm). > Its strange though that oracle did not support it when running in linux (there > only jinittiator for win *only*). It *may* runs on sun jdk 1.1 but > seems lot of bugs. I used Oracle Applications 11.0.

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?]

Wednesday, June 25, 2003, 5:18:31 PM, Panos wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 12:16, Peter Peltonen wrote: >> Instead of 50 workstations under heavy load have 50 clients getting >> their X sessions from a server having good hardware and lots of memory. >> Makes system administration a lot easier too

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?]

Wednesday, June 25, 2003, 5:55:47 PM, Anthony wrote: > On 25-Jun-2003/13:04 +0700, Beast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I'm still thinking will light WM (such as windowmaker, fvwm or even >>twm) will help them (arround 200-300 of them are still p233/128MB RAM) >>*if* they have to run evolution, open

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slower thanWindows98SE. Any advice?]

On 25-Jun-2003/13:04 +0700, Beast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm still thinking will light WM (such as windowmaker, fvwm or even >twm) will help them (arround 200-300 of them are still p233/128MB RAM) >*if* they have to run evolution, openoffice, mozilla and oracle >client?? >Any advice to improve

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slowerthan Windows98SE. Any advice?]

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 16:27, Mike Wafkowski wrote: > Beast - Thanks for showing up 8^). > > Yours is exactly the situation that lead me to my rant. > > Licensing costs is the bingo for corporate users and > institutional/government users, anywhere where there are "numbers" and > places where folk

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slowerthan Windows98SE. Any advice?]

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 12:16, Peter Peltonen wrote: > Instead of 50 workstations under heavy load have 50 clients getting > their X sessions from a server having good hardware and lots of memory. > Makes system administration a lot easier too. You could even make the X > clients diskless. > Nice

Re: Re[2]: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?]

Hello Santosh, On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 00:20, santosh wrote: > introduction. I am keen to learn linux. DNS, Samba, Apache, SSL, > Server configuration in linux. Best way to learn linux is to just by trying. And reading the Fine Manuals we have there. A really good starting point for learnin

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slowerthan Windows98SE. Any advice?]

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 11:49, Beast wrote: > what productivity? we assume that user are already familiar with their > apps (office suite, email, and oracle). > most interface of these apps are not very different on these different platform, so > user should be "familiar" shortly. > > I assume prod

Re: Linux (not) ready for desktop? [WAS Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?]

Wednesday, June 25, 2003, 3:18:02 PM, Peter wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:04, Beast wrote: >> > If the masses are happy with MacOS / MS Windows, why should they switch >> > to Linux? >> >> because of license cost? > I was talking about home users. But: Well, sorry :-) > The company must hav

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