TuxReports features an introduction to Red Hat Linux 9 with screenshots. Elsewhere, Slashdot readers discuss the Linux experience on an Acer TabletPC.
Red Hat Linux 9 Overview at TuxReports
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I didn’t get the Greater Point of that /. article. If it’s a PC, and the input devices are backwards compatible (which it is, the tablet input is fed to serial), then you really shouldn’t have too much trouble with it. Anyway.
Dysprosia,
You missed the point of the /. article because you missed the background. Check out the original link on Tux Reports and read some things LPH says in the past few days.
Here’s my take:
So, someone reads this link below and then sends it to /.
http://www.tuxreports.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=art…
And of course the submitter didn’t give credit to Tux Reports. Does this mean TR is going to sue or has the GPL been broken and we should all boycott /.?
This is a jk about the SCO lawsuit folks!
OK. It’s too early for jokes.
1. Yesterday I installed linux on one of my computers to use them like a proxy using squid. Well, I search for a graphical program to configure squid and I didn’t find it. Then I opened the configuration file “squid.conf” and I started to understand it. I would like to see an linux distribution with all configuration files in a control panel with each a graphical program with all the same options the .conf file was.
That’s the problem of linux. The distributions that exist don’t have any interface to that files in a control panel… for now we must edit .conf files and be an expert to undertand it.
When I talk about .conf files I also needed to edit a file in rc.d to start a program when the os boot.
2. One other thing that is important for linux is to be plug and play of devices, and have an option in control panel to install it easily… Yesterday I install the linux operating system without my modem connected. When the linux is installed and working I connected my modem to it, I make a connection in dial up and I choose modem port, don’t work! Then I choose the port i don’t remember now, but I think ? TTY01 ? and worked, fine:)
I would like to know what’s happened if I was a internal modem…
“The distributions that exist don’t have any interface to that files in a control panel…”
Yes they do. If you want a GUI, you can use Webmin (http://www.webmin.com/) for these things.
“Well, I search for a graphical program to configure squid and I didn’t find it.”
http://www.webmin.com/screens/squid.gif
“When I talk about .conf files I also needed to edit a file in rc.d to start a program when the os boot.”
Webmin -> System -> Bootup and shutdown
Yes, webmin is a good interface to that files:)