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P2P Package Manager
by Billy Crook 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

Has anyone ever heard of a package manager that 'scans' other machines within its subnet or within specified subnets for updates before using the official repositories? There would either have to be some service advertisement protocol lime MDNS or each machine would literally have to scan for a designated port number listening for these requests on all machines. Once they locate each other, the idea would be ome machine downloads 500MB of updates from the repo, and from there on, every other machine (with the same distro and arch) just pulls from the faster local machine, rather than using up inet bandwidth. Any suggestions (Other than a dedicated local repository mirror)?

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(no subject)
by Jared Smith 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

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OS CRM
by Jonathan Hutchins 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

Got a friend looking for a good CRM/CMS system. He's familiar with Act, which I've set up for clients before, but I seem to remember hearing that there was a good OS project that had a lot of momentum. If you actually know of something like this, or someone who's using it, even if it's a good Windows product as opposed to OS, please let me know. (Not being a coder or database guy, I'm not interested in suggestions as to how such a program should be written, structured, licensed, or packaged.)

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RE: ITEC
by Michael Haworth 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

As to the Beryl requirements, my Toshiba Satelite laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 works just fine (2.8GHz / 1 GB ram / Ubuntu 7.04), it also does pretty well with Compiz Fusion. I have tried installing Vista on this same computer, and M$ throws a tantrum over it. My video card rates at a 1.0 (basically telling me that it sucks by windows standards) and I can't run any of the aero interface. The laptop itself is only 4 years old and not even close to hitting middle-aged. --- snip ---

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logwatch question
by Jonathan Hutchins 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

I have not been able to fathom the logwatch documentation, which appears to be targeted at building custom log-parsing filters as opposed to basic control of the program. The package distributed by Mandriva is configured to report httpd errors. Our site gets way more than 10,000 hits per day, and has been up for more than ten years. The error log is several megabytes long, and logwatch doesn't even summarize, it reports EVERY ERROR. I don't really need it to scan the httpd logs, how can I turn that off?

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Re: ITEC-potential FUD or facts worth sharing?
by Oren Beck 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

http://badvista.fsf.org/ If we *REALLY* wanted to play the mindgaming edge that could do it.

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Re: ITEC
by Leo Mauler 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

Last year I stuck a video on "FOSS adoption in developing countries" on the demo Linux PC. This year I ran across a site which served up Creative Commons video for download, and have a number of new videos to choose from. I'm considering trying to scrounge up a 1.4Ghz or 1.5Ghz machine as the demo PC, since apparently Ubuntu's "Beryl" desktop runs comfortably at that speed. It would be nice to be able to demonstrate a Linux desktop which offered more eye candy than Vista on systems which won't run Vista. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/

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Re: ITEC
by cragos＠gmail.com 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

From: Leo Mauler <webgiant(a)yahoo.com> >I'd love to man the booth again this year. I can >bring in a demonstration Linux PC again this year, and >I can still print off a couple hundred of the nifty >non-confrontational "Five Reasons To Use Linux" >brochures I brought last year. Non-confrontational.... Does that mean we shouldn't print out copies of "Is MS Windows ready for the desktop?" http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/47221/index.html Hone it down to its essence, and it'd make an attention getting banner. Some of the attention might even be positive. - Sean Crago

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ITEC
by Christopher A. Bier 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I finally got into contact with the correct people at ITEC and should receive the contract for the free both today or tomorrow. For some reason, our info was handled by the people who normally do businesses. Who will be able to man the booth? Which CDs and other stuff will we give out? What cool tech do we want to display? KC ITEC Nov 7-8th OP Convention Center http://pages.crosstechmedia.com/WebSite/Index.aspx?C=70000087&S=50000093 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG+/t5E5xXU3JS1mQRAlpxAJ9AzWXY7B5pFdj0huuZ59Yscx+iAACaAjeH GiBu0Ptm9b9m2k/0Q10pPaY= =wIkX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ITEC Software distribution
by cragos＠gmail.com 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

FLOSS for Windows: TheOpenCD: It was a nice package, but the big stuff was already on the Ubuntu LiveCDs. At least as recently as the last LTS build, they were shipping with Windows installers for OOo, Firefox, and one other app (Thunderbird or GAIM?). In Edgy Eft, they were shipping with AbiWord, GAIM, Thunderbird, Firefox, and the Gimp. The other projects are promising, too, and there's something to be said for variety, but it might be more feasible to just do Ubuntu, given the relative ease of using their ShipIt system. That said, ShipIt says it takes "up to ten weeks." That doesn't reflect my past experience, but still, can we count on it getting here in time? Operating systems: Anything worth handing out over Ubuntu at the moment? Given the crowd, would a couple of copies of the x86 builds of OpenSolaris be of any interest? How about the low-end distros found on the Multi-Distro CD? ( http://www.linux.com/articles/54537 ) Misc utilities: Would there be any interest in the attendees about the Ultimate Boot CD w/INSERT Linux? ( http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ ) It's been the better part of a decade since I've attended one of these, and at the time I was too busy gawking at the booths to eyeball the rest of the crowd. With the UBCD and Ubuntu, also keep in mind that both are good ways to get Linux into the hands of someone that might have had a more immediate interest in just playing around with the FLOSS Windows software and OS-agnostic utilities. -Sean Crago

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