<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Russell jarvis</b> <<a href="mailto:colouredstatic@gmail.com">colouredstatic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
Dear Computerbank/Kylie,<br><br>Thanks for information and advice about yum and alien. I am still going over it.<br><br>The computer I purchased from CB is going very well, especially in terms of meeting my expectations.<br>
<br>I am having a lot of problems with the computer but they are all self inflicted. None of them relate to reasons why I chose a CB computer.<br><br>The software packages that were installed on the machine, did not reflect my needs or interests perfectly, but my needs and interests might not be typical of most clients. I think that overall the software selection achieves a good balance, and is as least as good as the medium automatic installs of Fedora, as about half of the software that I consider to be essential was there initially.
<br><br>It would have been good to have the emacs editor as well as vi, and I like maths programs such as, TeX, LaTeX, gnuplot and octave, but I am not sure how useful they are for the general population, who might be more interested in the multimedia and the internet.
</blockquote><div><br> </div>>Russell we really don't need more than one commandline editor, and vim is the one we know. <br>>Emacs adds a considerable amount of rubbish to the distro that we don't need, and the 99% of our customers would never use. Same with the other applications you mentioned. Our Distro is
<br>>designed specifically with GUI Users with limited computer knowledge in mind, not power linux users who are able to install their own applications and configure them. As you mentioned most <br>>of our customers are more interested in the Multimedia, Office & Internet side of the distro. However our distro is a good building point for adding whatever you want.
<br><br><br>I have never recompiled a kernel or anything like that, I wonder if the kernel is already fine tuned for the hardware on the CB machines? I suspect that it might be.<br><br>>> No its not fine tuned, its more a megakernel designed to run on as many ix86/amd chipsets as we can, we can't afford to have different kernels designed for different machines, its totally >unfeasable in the CBV Situation. Remember, we use donated machinery from many different sources.
<br><br><br>So anyway thanks for a good value computer. <br><br>>Your wlecome, we try our hardest to make sure our machines are useful and great value and always get a warm fuzzy feeling when someone lets us know we are doing a good job :)
<br><br>BTW:<br>I wonder if there are going to be any training sessions in the weekends in the Easter holidays (6th -15th of April). I guess you guys probably intend on actually having a holiday which would be fair enough.
<br><br>Here are more of my self induced problems if you would like to here about them.<br><br>The first problem is getting all or some of Wine the menu to appear in the K menu on the toolbar, I know that there are instructions as to how to create desktop links in computer bank manual, but I think I need to somehow get the program to put a menu there itself.
<br> <br>>> Yeah Wine can be a little bit of a pain to configure, though it normally puts an icon into the kmenu on install<br><br><br>As when I installed Wine on my Gnome Fedora desktop, Wine seemed to install a menu/interface in the F Applications part of the toolbar. The menu/interface, seems to be a lot more transparent than the command line options. Perhaps switching over to Gnome on the CB machine will remedy this, which leads to my other problem:
<br><br>I don't know how to switch over to the Gnome desktop, however it is very much my own problem, since Kylie once gave me explicit instructions on how to do it, and I lost/forgot them.<br><br>>> In your login screen, you can change it under options I think
<br><br>Also I think I am close to getting my Canon ip 1000 printer to work through localhost:631, but I am having problems. I understand that is a computer that you neither stock nor recommend. Maybe I will ask about it some other time.
<br> <br>>> Hmmm you might have to upgrade to cupsys 1.2.7 to get that working, if you do add/upgrade everything you find for cupsys/gutenprint/foomatic except -dev stuff, unless you intend working on >printer drivers :)
<br>>You might also need to add a line to /etc/udev/permissions.rules<br>>If you do, type this, vi /etc/udev/permissions.rules +/urandom<br>>Then add this line KERNEL=="lp0", MODE="0666"
<br><br><br><br>Thanks again<br>Russell<br></div><br>Hope you keep enjoying our distro<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>John Simpson<br><br><a href="http://nighthawk.mine.nu/">http://nighthawk.mine.nu/</a><br>"Quantum Physics: The dreams stuff is made of."
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