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On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 08:12 AM, betty wrote:
> thanks to all of you who tried helping with my setup in samba of a
> redhat/win network at home. after 8 more hours; and using /webmin/
> instead of /samba/; my former instructor in linux was able to get the
> 2 talking together.
> problems were; security set too high in redhat (standard install),
> old laptop w/windows 98 ; had to go to win xp,
> path for shared files was too long ie; /home/stormy/filename, worked
> better with just /shared filename.
>
> don't think i could help anyone else do this, the total time was 24
> hours. linux needs to work this out for (simple) desktop users to
> popularize it. :-P ( webmin was definitely easier to use than samba)
> betty i
> see you all saturday
I'm so glad that you *finally* got it working. I salute your
determination in seeing this thing through.
I was reading today on the O'Reilly site at
<
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3915> how Nat Friedman figures that
Linux has captured 1% of the desktop market and that it is ready know
and will go to 2% just given time.
I wish I could get some of what Nat is smoking. I have seen the Linux
user experience go from 'always sux hard' to 'doesn't suck too bad in
some areas.'
Just yesterday I went to install Red Hat on a brand new machine with a
not all that uncommon video card. Halfway through the default graphical
install the screen wind dead with an 'Out of sync' message. So I tried
again, passing lowres to the kernel. This time I was able to get
through the install only to see the computer lose it's video signal
after the first boot sequence.
I finally found a work-around and I now understand that the
savage_drvr.o that Red Hat was installing works with XFree86 v 4.2.x
and the version of XFree86 that Red Hat installs is 4.3.0.
At some point in the process, I installed Win XP just to see what video
card was installed. Windows didn't have a driver either but *It still
gave me a useful monitor* and plenty of help in going through the
process of installing a driver so I could see what the video card was.
How many people would stick with Linux after experiences like we had?
My guess is about 1%.
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On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 08:12 AM, betty wrote:
<excerpt>thanks to all of you who tried helping with my setup in samba
of a redhat/win network at home. after 8 more hours; and using
/webmin/ instead of /samba/; my former instructor in linux was able to
get the 2 talking together.
problems were; security set too high in redhat (standard install),
old laptop w/windows 98 ; had to go to win xp,
path for shared files was too long ie; /home/stormy/filename, worked
better with just /shared filename.
don't think i could help anyone else do this, the total time was 24
hours. linux needs to work this out for (simple) desktop users to
popularize it. :-P ( webmin was definitely easier to use than samba)
betty i
see you all saturday
</excerpt>
I'm so glad that you *finally* got it working. I salute your
determination in seeing this thing through.
I was reading today on the O'Reilly site at
<<
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3915> how
<fontfamily><param>Tahoma</param>Nat Friedman figures that Linux has
captured 1% of the desktop market and that it is ready know and will
go to 2% just given time.
I wish I could get some of what Nat is smoking. I have seen the Linux
user experience go from 'always sux hard' to 'doesn't suck too bad in
some areas.'
Just yesterday I went to install Red Hat on a brand new machine with a
not all that uncommon video card. Halfway through the default
graphical install the screen wind dead with an 'Out of sync' message.
So I tried again, passing lowres to the kernel. This time I was able
to get through the install only to see the computer lose it's video
signal after the first boot sequence.
I finally found a work-around and I now understand that the
savage_drvr.o that Red Hat was installing works with XFree86 v 4.2.x
and the version of XFree86 that Red Hat installs is 4.3.0.
At some point in the process, I installed Win XP just to see what
video card was installed. Windows didn't have a driver either but *It
still gave me a useful monitor* and plenty of help in going through
the process of installing a driver so I could see what the video card
was.
How many people would stick with Linux after experiences like we had?
My guess is about 1%.</fontfamily>
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