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ru.linux- RU.LINUX --------------------------------------------------------------------- From : Ilya Pinaeff 2:5020/400 11 Mar 2006 14:41:43 To : Sergey Daniloff Subject : Re: Русифициpованные UNIX-системы? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi! Sat Mar 11 2006 02:27, Sergey Daniloff wrote to Alexandr Burdejny: >> ну не надо так категорично... >> ручка тупо не переключается без надписей и воплей... >> и ключ не вынимается пока на "Р" не поставишь а на дырке для ключа кроме >> лампочки и 3-х значков ничего нету... SD> Вот! Так же и в линукс! Пока не найдёшь в книжке Эви Hеметт, что такое SD> файерволл, хрен у тебя ftp-сервер заведётся... :-) <...> Ed Howdershelt, a sometimes correspondent, told me of Xandros, a Linux distribution. Now that interested me, because I use Linux and I write a fantasy series called Xanth. If ever something seems cut out for me, it would be Xanth Linux, or something in that neighborhood. He said it installed on his system with four clicks, just as advertised. Okay, we had a dialogue. He got an extra distribution he didn't need, so he motorcycled up and brought it to us. We have an extra system we've hardly used because we couldn't get my keyboard on it, and my wife didn't want to struggle for hours to download the current Eudora mail handler; typically the download of anything gets interrupted and we have to start over, and then it doesn't work anyway. So we much prefer to load from discs; at least they work, and serve as a backup when there is need. Four clicks? Xandros didn't load at all. Well, it got on the system, then refused to recognize us. It kept asking for a nonexistent password. Finally my wife managed to get it reinstalled, and this time it worked. But the keyboard section was hidden, so couldn't be modified. I thought it was only Windows that took pride in hiding things to the user can't find them, let alone adapt them. But my theory is that disaffected Windows programmers migrated to open source, taking their used-be-damned attitude with them. Came a fan letter from Farrell McGovern: he's into Linux; anything he could do to help? I told him about the Xandros problem. So he got it and downloaded it, and soon got us the name of the key file. With that my wife was able to trace it, buried way deep in the labyrinth, and modify it. So now I could use that system. Except that it won't go online. The Windows that it came with uses its modem to go online, but Xandros can't figure it out. I love the open source idea, but sometimes I wonder whether its programmers actually know their business. I just assumed they knew about modems. So that system remains unused. So why don't we query the Xandros proprietors about it? Actually, I'd like to register with them, because it seems like a nice software package, and I'd be happy to put it on my writing system and review it in this column. You know the song about the hole in the bucket? Catch 22? We can't take the system online to make that query or registration. I suppose we could do it via Windows, but that doesn't seem quite Kosher. But Xandros has had one effect: for years I've been telling my wife what a fun game Shisen-Sho is. It's a sort of a gravity-tile/Mahjongg variant, and I play it to relax when I have time. But it's on Linux, and she's on Windows. But Xandros has it, so she tried it--and became addicted. My fastest time is just over 15 minutes; now all of her top ten are well under that. What have I done? <...> Извиняюсь, цитата большая, зато по теме :-) --- ifmail v.2.15dev5.3 * Origin: FidoNet Online - http://www.fido-online.com (2:5020/400) Вернуться к списку тем, сортированных по: возрастание даты уменьшение даты тема автор
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