KCLUG October 2007

43 participants
55 discussions

Re: Say "Bye-Bye SCO!"
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "David Nicol" <davidnicol(a)gmail.com> > but they do have a microsoft linux; it's called "Interix" and it is now > a free download, called "Microsoft Services for Unix" > I am wondering how long that stays. Part of what was in it, at least at one time was GPL. Now with GPL3 and it's Patent protection parts (that's argued, but hasn't been tried), I wonder how long Microsoft will distribute it. As for SCO, I DO want them to face the judge, get declaratory statements about things like they did contribute (shown in court), and distribute Linux, despite what their current SCO "allegedly" thinks. I do want them declared in VIOLATION of the GPL, on IBM's account (as well as others whose works are in there). And I do want them to have judgments against them and face the SEC for fraud investigations.

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P2P Package Manager
by Billy Crook 02 Oct '07

02 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 01 Oct '07

01 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 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '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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KCLUG October 2007