Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 16:18 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > on the rotating drive. Note that a real SSD can go about twice as > fast > > as a SATA 2 port, which is probably what you have on your machine, > but > > it will still be dramatically faster than a USB stick. > > But there are USB 3.0 s

Re: Brother DCP7065dn laser printer on Fedora 20 [was Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation]

| From: Lee | Just wondering, do all Brother printers ship with Linux drivers? No. Many don't need proprietary drivers. Some have proprietary drivers. I would guess some don't have Linux drivers at all. As usual, one good resource is

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 03:44:26PM -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > So ask yourself: in a home server, just what does RAID give me? Are > > you really bottlenecked for speed in a way that RAID will improve? > > Perhaps RAID can help with High Availability (and perhaps not) -- is > > that what you are

Re: Fedora 20 shutdown

I have 4 icons in the top right corner. one to switch on the internet, one which displays a small aeroplane, one for speaker volume and one for battery status. They all have the same dropdown menu which has a selection Home which provides Switch User and Log out. Wow! thanks, I just found the

Re: Fedora 20 shutdown

Hi, Just following on from my previous email, I logged out of KDE and logged into Gnome (as opposed to Gnome Classic) and in the top right hand corner menu selection there was a power button as well as a setting button. Clicking on the power button provided the option to restart or to shut

Re: Fedora 20 shutdown

Hi, I have an F20 installation that has been upgraded using Fedup through every version on Fedora from F17. I don't use Gnome, instead I use KDE (personal preference, I believe they stuffed Gnome with the introduction of Gnome 3 and I believe KDE has always been more configurable) and unde

Re: Brother DCP7065dn laser printer on Fedora 20 [was Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation]

Just wondering, do all Brother printers ship with Linux drivers? On Apr 28, 2014 11:07 AM, "D. Hugh Redelmeier" wrote: > | From: Fred Smith > > | I'm using a Brother DCP7065DN at home, and it seems to work well with > | Linux, BUT you have to use Brother's drivers for it. The driver > recommende

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

So ask yourself: in a home server, just what does RAID give me? Are > you really bottlenecked for speed in a way that RAID will improve? > Perhaps RAID can help with High Availability (and perhaps not) -- is > that what you are hoping for? Just don't think of it as backup. > -- > Hmm, I was look

Re: Help with Fedora build system

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:56:02PM -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I have a request to verify a bug fix in the kerneli (id=1082266). I'm pointed > to build info (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6790858), > which lists a number of files associated with the build. I've downloaded

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

On 28.04.2014, Javier Perez wrote: > My plan is to put the OS on a USB stick In my experience, that's a bad idea. USB-sticks are not reliable over a longer period, and you can expect data loss. > and use the whole 2TB for Data. I'd rather not have a > PATA SDD, and I do not want to lose one of

Re: [389-users] Export/Import: openldap-2.3.27 to 389-ds-1.2.2-1

On 28/04/14 19:24, Brian Arthur wrote: > I’m not sure if it was turned off. How can I tell? All the “syntax” > plugins I looked at in my config are “on”. Maybe the openldap syntax checks do not work as expected? E.g. Sun DSEE 6.3 does accept latin1 entries even when nsslapd-syntaxcheck is set to

Help with Fedora build system

I have a request to verify a bug fix in the kerneli (id=1082266). I'm pointed to build info (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6790858), which lists a number of files associated with the build. I've downloaded the appropriate kernel (via yumex), but it did not install. Here's wh

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Also, a USB stick will wear out a lot quicker if it's used as a > root filesystem with /tmp. Well, I've been waiting for Samsung F2FS for a long time, but still no boot support AFAIK http://www.techspot.com/news/50428-samsung-creates-f

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

| From: Javier Perez | I know, but I wanted the famous speed a SSD/flash system is supposed to | give for the OS. Specially given that it is an old system. I could be wrong, but I think - most USB sticks are quite slow. - USB2 sticks are guaranteed to be slow-ish - USB sticks seem to have low

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Javier Perez wrote: >>Putting your OS onto a 10 GB partition on that drive will take up about >> 0.5% of its capacity. It will also be much safer >than having it on an >> external drive, especially if it's a flash drive. > > I know, but I wanted the famous speed a

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

| From: Joe Zeff | On 04/28/2014 10:44 AM, Javier Perez wrote: | > | > Is there anything I should know I am not taking into consideration? | | Putting your OS onto a 10 GB partition on that drive will take up about 0.5% | of its capacity. It will also be much safer than having it on an external

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

Hi Robert. >The get a 64Gb SSD internal as you primary device and put all data on a secondary drive. If I do that I lose one SATA port out of the 4 that the motherboard has. I want to slowly upgrade it to a Raid 1+0 system, unless there is a better option. Will ZFS on two mirrored HDDs be a viab

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 14:02:47 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: though I can't tell you the steps, it is possible to build a raid-1 array using Linux Raid, with only one drive. it'll be in "degraded" mode because of only one drive, but you could then easily (??) add a second or subsequent drive to

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

On 04/28/2014 02:11 PM, Javier Perez wrote: >Putting your OS onto a 10 GB partition on that drive will take up about 0.5% of its capacity. It will also be much safer >than having it on an external drive, especially if it's a flash drive. I know, but I wanted the famous speed a SSD/flash syst

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

>Putting your OS onto a 10 GB partition on that drive will take up about 0.5% of its capacity. It will also be much safer >than having it on an external drive, especially if it's a flash drive. I know, but I wanted the famous speed a SSD/flash system is supposed to give for the OS. Specially give

Brother DCP7065dn laser printer on Fedora 20 [was Re: All-in-one laser printer recommendation]

| From: Fred Smith | I'm using a Brother DCP7065DN at home, and it seems to work well with | Linux, BUT you have to use Brother's drivers for it. The driver recommended | by the RH printer tool didn't work for me. | | I've printed to it from Centos 6.5, Fedora 19, and Fedora 20, so far. | I've u

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Javier Perez wrote: > 1. I could use ext4 on all HDDs eventually. But I wonder, can I use ZFS? > Specially I would like to have the ability to expand the single HDD into a > Raid once I get the second HDD as painlessly as possible. If I use ext4 I > guess I will ha

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

On 04/28/2014 10:44 AM, Javier Perez wrote: Is there anything I should know I am not taking into consideration? Putting your OS onto a 10 GB partition on that drive will take up about 0.5% of its capacity. It will also be much safer than having it on an external drive, especially if it's a

Re: Small Home server - HDD/SDD

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:44:02PM -0500, Javier Perez wrote: >HI >I have a small home server (photos, videos, music) that is reaching >full capacity. >It is a 750GB, partitioned as a 50G OS and 700G Data + swap >The mobo, an Intel DG31PR mobo has 1 PATA and 4 SATA ports (3G

Small Home server - HDD/SDD

HI I have a small home server (photos, videos, music) that is reaching full capacity. It is a 750GB, partitioned as a 50G OS and 700G Data + swap The mobo, an Intel DG31PR mobo has 1 PATA and 4 SATA ports (3GB/s). Currently it is running FC20, having been continuously upgraded from almost Fedor

F20 - Critical poweron failure, again

System is doing it again, but this time I have something for /var/log/messages. What happened: System was getting unstable; gnome had restarted a few times and other things seemed to be getting off. I unplugged from my KVM and power to use the system elsewhere and the system attempted to go i

Re: Fedora 20 shutdown

On 04/28/2014 12:49 AM, Roger wrote: I have just Fedup'd Fedora 19 to F20 on a Dell 1520 laptop and it works well, took about 4 hours to complete still has the same php error message about /usr/lib64/pdo-mysql.so but all works well. There seems to be no way to shut own the system other than g

Re: rpmbuild

On 28-04-14 12:35, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, trying to compile a perl package rpmbuild -bb perl-tk-zinc.spec --nocheck I get: File not found by glob: /home/pdupre/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-tk-zinc-3.303-1.fc20.x86_64/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/tk* what is wrong? One or more files were i

Re: Fedora 20 shutdown

On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 20:11 +1000, Roger wrote: > I'm using gnome, I guess it's gnome 3. In Fedora 19 I have the menu > top right. I thought you said Fedora 20 was the problem? But for the sake of trying a simple test - with Fedora 20 - create a new user, log out as yourself, log into that new us

Re: Fedora 20 shutdown

On 04/28/2014 06:11 AM, Roger wrote: > I'm using gnome, I guess it's gnome 3. In Fedora 19 I have the menu > top right. > Roger I have a fresh F20 install amd_64 running MATE. Under the System menu I have both a logout & shutdown icon. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new cou

rpmbuild

Hello, trying to compile a perl package rpmbuild -bb perl-tk-zinc.spec --nocheck I get: File not found by glob: /home/pdupre/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/perl-tk-zinc-3.303-1.fc20.x86_64/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/tk* what is wrong? Thank.

Re: Fedora 20 shutdown

On 04/28/2014 05:33 PM, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 14:49 +1000, Roger wrote: I have just Fedup'd Fedora 19 to F20 on a Dell 1520 laptop and it works well, took about 4 hours to complete still has the same php error message about /usr/lib64/pdo-mysql.so but all works well. There seems to

Re: Developing for Android with Qt

On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:40:47 +0200, Isaac Cortés González wrote: Ok thanks; but what I need to know is if with just the packages in the repos I can "roll", or I'll definitely need to download the installer from their website? -Isaac C. 2014-04-24 2:03 GMT-06:00 Martin Bříza :

Re: Fedora 20 shutdown

On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 14:49 +1000, Roger wrote: > I have just Fedup'd Fedora 19 to F20 on a Dell 1520 laptop and it > works well, took about 4 hours to complete still has the same php > error message about /usr/lib64/pdo-mysql.so but all works well. > > There seems to be no way to shut own the sy