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01:43.18projektdotnetHi
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01:56.18projektdotnetanyone alive?
01:56.52Heartsbaneyes
01:57.51projektdotnetalways good to know that i'm not the only one
01:58.06projektdotnetis the address for the Feb meeting the same as the Jan meeting?
01:58.15projektdotnetI've never been to one but I want to try and make the next one
01:58.37HeartsbaneYes it will be
01:59.00projektdotnetAwesome.
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04:33.43Zelutatoponce: any opinion on openID server software?
04:35.14atoponcehmm. haven't run my own openid server, actually. just using my domain as a delegate
04:35.47kkubasikI ran some php one
04:35.53kkubasikkinda a pain to configure actually
04:38.17Zelutwith the yahoo announcement i've re-added it to my blog and have been wondering about my own server.
04:40.02atoponcei would like to re-enable my blog to support openid
04:40.17atoponceZelut: using a plugin for wordpress? if so, which one?
04:40.39Zelutatoponce: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/openid
04:40.59Zelutatoponce: seems to be working from my testing.  Dax said he got some php errors when he tried, but I wonder if that was on his end..
04:45.09atoponceyeah. that's the same i'm using. i also have php errors
04:47.52Zeluti haven't seen any php errors..
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04:56.44Zelutyou know the WP plugin that I'd like but can't find?
04:56.56Zelutdisable comments if the referrer is digg.com
04:57.29atoponceheh
04:57.33Gate_Laptoplol
04:59.46Zelutsounds like it might be simple, but its been ages since I've touched php.  I wont even try.
05:01.16kkubasikI can do it when I get 20 min
05:01.34kkubasikif there's serious demand, and you all don't want a config
05:01.40kkubasikjust hardcode it to digg.com
05:01.41kkubasik;)
05:02.07Zelutthat's all I care about.  I don't like filtering digg fanboy comments on my blog whenever someone diggs me.
05:02.47kkubasikthere obnoxious man
05:02.52kkubasik'who cares about ubuntu'
05:02.57kkubasik'this wasn't a good tut'
05:03.02kkubasik'it didn't work for me'
05:03.09kkubasikYOU DUGG ME BITCHES
05:03.12kkubasikDEAL!
05:03.20kkubasiksorry about that slip of the doung
05:03.27Zelutpretty much..
05:03.41herlo~language kkubasik
05:03.53Gate_Laptopkkubasik: blog entry or something on digg?
05:04.21Gate_LaptopI even took the RSS feed out of firefox....
05:05.56Zelutits been a while since I've been front paged, but i've been looking for this plugin for months.
05:07.25atoponcehmm. better zsh prompt, i think
05:08.50findlayfish ftw
05:09.07atoponcefish?
05:09.18findlay~find fish
05:09.56findlayhttp://fishshell.org/
05:10.26atoponceinteresting
05:10.31atoponcehow is tab completion?
05:10.59findlaybeen a while since I've tried it
05:11.11findlaybut the syntax highlighting is awesome
05:11.21atoponcesyntax highlighting?
05:11.39findlayyes.  Live CLI highlighting
05:11.46atoponcenice
05:12.04atoponceahh. i see. checking out the screenshots
05:13.17atoponcesh compatible?
05:15.32findlayI think it's based on bash, but I don't know the compatibilities
05:17.13jhancock___have you seen hotwire?
05:18.17atoponcenay
05:18.30jhancock___you can run python comands from the terminal
05:18.34jhancock___It is really sweet
05:18.38jhancock___let me find the link
05:19.02atoponcedoesn't seem to be in the repos
05:19.48jhancock___nah, There is a package for hardy
05:20.00jhancock___but I think kkubasick might back port it
05:20.21jhancock___http://digg.com/linux_unix/Hotwire_graphical_terminal_in_Ubuntu
05:20.33jhancock___you hav eto build it from source
05:21.48jhancock___It is getting a lot of dev love
05:22.08jhancock___http://www.howtoubuntu.com/2007/10/20/hotwire-graphical-terminal.html
05:22.12jhancock___this is what I ment to send
05:23.31atoponceinteresting
05:24.25herlohotwire rocks
05:24.39jhancock___si senior
05:24.55herloits a bit heavy for this little computer though
05:25.01jhancock___haha
05:25.14jhancock___anything is a bit heavy for that tiny thing
05:25.32jhancock___nice :)
05:25.51herlojhancock___: not really, I run epiphany and thunderbird, rhythmbox and vim all at the same time
05:26.12herloplus I have lots of other things going on occasion
05:26.17jhancock___what proccessing power do you get on that
05:26.27jhancock___well you can develope django apps in it
05:26.35herloits supposed to run at 900Mhz, but is clocked down to 600 IIRC
05:26.58jhancock___phewwwy
05:27.03jhancock___that is fine for linux
05:27.35jhancock___try to run windows on it and you would probably break the lappy with your face in frusteration
05:28.06jhancock___haha
05:28.18herloand yet, the windos people wanna put it on this
05:28.26herlos/os/ows/g
05:28.41herloI think they are CRRRRAAAAAAAZZZZZZZYYYYY!  but that's not a debate
05:28.50jhancock___haha
05:29.16jhancock___lets just say there is a reason the most common thing in the windows terminal is
05:29.23herlohttp://stream.utos.org
05:29.24jhancock___dir.. dir dir..... dir dir
05:29.30herlohehe
05:29.49jhancock___oh good
05:29.55jhancock___when is that again?
05:30.01herloabout 3pm
05:30.10herlobut I'll try to have the podcast up tomorrow night
05:30.19jhancock___crap I hate school
05:30.24jhancock___it gets in the way of everything
05:30.27herlowhich reminds me, I still haven't listened to the state of the union
05:30.28jhancock___:(
05:30.36herlojhancock___: podcast!
05:31.40herloyeah, me too.
05:31.51herlothat's part of why we're streaming it
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05:55.59Gate_LaptopZelut: you up for an experiment?
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14:58.21Zelutmorning
15:00.00YorokobiGood morning. All 4 hours of it already.
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15:23.11Zeluthmm.. denyhosts isn't available for Dapper :(
15:35.02Zelutnow I'm tempted to upgrade my servers to 7.10
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15:54.05YorokobiZelut, you can get the same effect from iptables. The big difference being that the offending IP(s) won't be stored forever, if I remember how iptables works.
15:57.38Gate_LaptopZelut: did you get my PM?
15:57.51Gate_Laptopcrap, late to work, be back on in a minute
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16:03.49findlayZelut, Yorokobi: if you went with iptables you could still probably script it to read and write from /etc/hosts.deny
16:04.17findlaybesides, tensai wrote a script that does the same thing as DenyHosts
16:06.30Yorokobiiptables has a connection rate limit--effectively denyhosts
16:07.01Yorokobior, he could use OpenBSD as a gw/fw and let pf handle it. :)
16:10.32findlayman, everybody's going to work
16:10.38findlayguess I should too
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16:16.31ZelutYeah, I've seen examples of doing it with IPtables but I'm lazy
16:18.14Gate_LaptopZelut: I wrote a little hardcoded addidtion to WordPress that should block people with a referer that has a substring of 'digg.com'
16:18.38Gate_LaptopI have *no* idea if it will actually work, but it doesn't give a syntax error
16:19.25ZelutGate_Laptop: I downloaded it but haven't tried yet.
16:19.34Gate_Laptopcool, let me know
16:20.01synicGate_Laptop: what language is in your quit message?
16:20.05synicLua?  C#?
16:20.07Gate_Laptopits just an else if in the first part of that file
16:21.27Gate_LaptopI was just going for a pseudocode type of look, maybe C#
16:21.53Gatethat's better :)
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16:46.02ZelutGate: looking through the code I don't know if that'll work.
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16:51.06Gatesince I posted it I have come up with about 4 reasons it might not
16:51.20Gatewhich one are you thinking about?
16:55.08ZelutFrom the way I understand it when they fill out a comment form and submit *I* will be the referrer so I don't know that it'll count.
16:56.58GateOK, so what needs to happen is we need to stuff the original referrer into their session then check that when they try to coment
16:57.39GateI also need to make it check for capitalized DIGG.COM etc, etc
16:59.40Zeluti'm horrible with PHP, but sounds like good practice for you ;)
16:59.57Gatelol
17:00.16GateI actually have written my own CMS
17:02.04Zelutright on.   unless its bash I'm no help :)
17:14.35synicsweet, exaile is a featured project on launchpad.
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17:42.57YorokobiAnyone who wants to try the newest beta release of Kubuntu, beware! The installer has b0rked at least one person's Windows partitions and several people are running into intaller problems.
17:43.18YorokobiI know there are people here who like to cut themselves on the bleeding edge. :)
17:43.31Zelutthat's not a good selling point there Yorokobi
17:44.00Yorokobi:) I stopped selling KDE when KDE4 was officially released.
17:45.03ZelutYorokobi: +1
17:45.10Yorokobilolo
17:45.18Yorokobis/lolo/lol/
17:45.54ZelutI take it you're downgrading to something lighter?
17:47.01YorokobiAt work, I am using Kubuntu 6.06.2, at home I have OpenBSD 4.2-stable, and on my laptop I have Kubuntu 7.10. I may switch my laptop to FreeBSD or PC-BSD, eventually.
17:47.18YorokobiSo, lighter than KDE4 all around.
17:48.20Zelutwell don't completely leave the *buntu world.
17:49.34YorokobiIf I stick with *buntu it'll probably be the server install then add Xorg and fluxbox afterwards
17:50.04Zelutcould try fluxbuntu.. although I haven't yet.
17:50.44YorokobiIIRC, it has some issues still. I'm not clear on what exactly, but it seemed an "iffy" project when I last looked at it.
17:50.57Yorokobimaybe because it wasn't well supported
17:51.20ZelutI used to install server + xubuntu-desktop.  Is there not a fluxbuntu-desktop package?
17:51.31Yorokobino idea
17:51.44ZelutI wonder what the differences are now between the server & desktop kernel
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17:59.27findlayand a popcorn kernel
18:01.06findlaywhy does ubuntu spawn so many forks?
18:01.11findlayI'm with tristanbob
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18:01.46findlayI think there should be one core with all the fragmentations as just add-ons
18:01.55findlaybut that's just my opinion :)
18:06.20Zeluttell that to all the people who fork
18:06.32Zeluti'm sure much of what they are forking could be done with simple packaging.
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18:07.05findlaywell how much did ubuntu encourage kubuntu/xubuntu/edubuntu?
18:07.26findlayand did that sort of exonerate spinoffs?
18:07.56Zelutwell xubuntu hasn't been supported until very recently, but edubuntu and kubuntu were on purpose.
18:10.23YorokobiEdu* and Ku* fit specific and very targetable niches.
18:11.00JoeyDay|wguWhat is Edubuntu anyway? Kubuntu and Xubuntu are alternative desktop environments, but I've never understood what Edubuntu is. Does it just use Gnome and have a different suite of applications?
18:11.43findlayexactly.  Just alternate desktops.  I guess those ones are just a set of packages different
18:13.06findlaymaybe they could make a universal installer with all of the desktop options
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18:13.33Zelutedubuntu rocks man.  if you have kids you *have* to run edubuntu.
18:13.49YorokobiWell, if you eliminated all the other *buntus, the devs would have to make a unified installer that gave the user all of the available WMs. I am not aware of any *nix installer that lets the user choose their WM during the install. Granted, my experience is limited in that regard.
18:14.53maquisYorokobi: not really choosing the WM, but in the redhat installer, you can choose between Gnome, KDE and leaving it off
18:15.01Zelutrhel/fedora & the suse's let you chose between kde & gnome (and sometimes xfce) on install.
18:15.04maquis(or at least you could... i haven't tried in a while)
18:15.33Zelutbut the problem starts there in that we no longer have single CD installs.  If we pack in 2,3,4 WMs into a disk we've now moved to DVD install.
18:15.34Yorokobiah, there you go. I have never installed RH/Fedora/SuSE
18:15.39findlayYorokobi: RH distros at least in the past have given you lots of package options
18:15.48maquispersonally, my preferred choice is "leave it off and let me handle it myself"
18:16.01findlayubuntu was kind of radical in that regard by having the first real One Click Install
18:16.13Zelutwith as popular as ubuntu is I think DVD downloads would clog the interweb tubes much more than they are now during release times.
18:16.24Zelutubuntu is radical isn't it ;)
18:16.46maquisbut compared to ubuntu, i much prefer how fedora/rh give you lists of categories, where you can select what software you want, rather than having the distro make that decision for you
18:16.53findlaywhy would ubuntu DVD downloads clog the intertubes?
18:17.07Yorokobi2GB download v. 700MB download
18:17.14Zelutfindlay: 700M vs 3G is going to use a lot more tube
18:17.15findlayso?
18:17.34findlaywell it'll clog *your* tubes for longer, sure
18:17.37Zelutso I'd rather get my download done and installed rather than wait for another 2G of junk I probably wont use
18:18.00maquisone way to do that would be to have cd's with specific software for people without network connections (or with slow connections), then have a minimal installer which provides the list of options at the end of the installer and downloads/installs them as the last step of installation
18:18.17maquisso, you still start out with a full setup, but you get options as well
18:18.31Zelutmaquis: pretty close to what we have now.  *buntu on 1CD + add what you want later via the interweb
18:18.35findlayZelut: what are you complaining about Mr UTOPIA? :)
18:18.37maquisZelut: no
18:18.46Zelutfindlay: I don't have utopia anymore in farmington.
18:18.48maquis*buntu on 1 cd installs a million things that i *don't* want
18:18.53findlayZelut: :(
18:19.04Zelutmaquis: install server
18:19.16maquisZelut: sure, but that means go and download the server cd
18:19.22maquisinstead of using the cds i already have
18:19.34Zelut*buntu also provides the netboot installer which comes with nothing much more than a kernel & shell, and you then add what you want.
18:19.57maquissee... that's more what i'm thinking
18:20.09Zeluti love using the netboot installer via my local mirror.  I install *just* what I want and its super fast.
18:20.38maquisi'm still partial to source-based distros... but that's personal
18:21.30Zelutunfortunately the netboot iso is not very prominent or listed on the download pages
18:21.51findlaymaquis: rpath?
18:22.07Yorokobiaye, that's one of the appeals of OpenBSD for me. I can put the installer on a 200MB CD and it installs the bare minimum to operate.
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18:24.23Zelutfindlay: I have 1.5M/7xx DSL now.
18:24.52Zelutfindlay: sadly I can often get a faster connection tethered over my cell phone.
18:30.52tristanbobZelut, actually, I think xubuntu is now less supported
18:31.47Zeluttristanbob: this looks like its improving - http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=80
18:34.21tristanbobIt is interesting to learn that canonical never really supported xubuntu, even though they called it an "official version of ubuntu"
18:35.43tristanbobhttp://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/xubuntu
18:35.52tristanbob"Xubuntu is an official derivative of Ubuntu using the Xfce desktop environment"
18:36.05tristanbobfindlay, I agree with the single DVD idea - unify the ubuntu brand!
18:36.44tristanbobwhy complain about bandwidth?  people used to complain about web images larger than 64kb in size
18:37.55Zelutbecause i don't want to download a DVD on my slow 1.5M pipe which comes with KDE and all its cruft.
18:38.17findlayoh, it's all about KDE, is it?  The truth comes out :-)
18:38.53Yorokobiheh, it is *always* all about KDE :)
18:40.48Zelutor if I just want to install server, which takes up about 600M total installed why do I want a 3G download?
18:41.24Zelutplus, ubuntu is designed to be stupid-easy.  a new user isn't going to know what package groups and things they need or don't need.
18:41.52Zeluti remember wondering when i first installed redhat what in the world i was supposed to add/remove.  i had no idea.
18:41.57findlayso you're just going to present them with GNOME and call it good?
18:42.41Zelutno.. and that's why we have variants..
18:42.59Zeluti don't think people really wonder if ubuntu & kubuntu are in the same boat.
18:44.35YorokobiOne of the most common questions in #kubuntu is "what's the difference between ubuntu and kubuntu?" So, no, people don't group the two as being the same.
18:46.05Zelutwell, right, they aren't the same but i don't think they wonder if one is made by mandriva or something.
18:46.17Zeluti assume it is understood they come from the same people
18:47.39Yorokobiah, yeah, I presume so. Especially considering both project's main sites link to each other.
18:48.10findlaywell, you're going to have newbie confusion no matter how you do it
18:48.24Yorokobisuch is the nature of newbies
18:48.36findlaythat's one thing that really turned me off about mandrake a long time ago
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18:49.17findlayI didn't know if I wanted the Cool Edition or the Ultimate Supreme Edition or the Optimized Awesomeness Edition
18:50.14findlayYorokobi: but I thought ubuntu was all about eliminating newbie confusion
18:50.54YorokobiI doubt anyone can eliminate it. I realize you're being sarcastic (or, I hope you are :) ).
18:51.46findlaywell, one of the departure points of ubuntu was that it was the antithesis of debian while at the same time utilizing its excellent distro structure
18:52.31findlayso it's either 'which *buntu do I want' or 'which desktop do I install'
18:53.00findlayyou may as well promote the flagship disc to minimize that confusion
18:54.01findlayof course you'll have some newbies that want to try them all :)
18:54.48YorokobiI'm going to cop-out of further discussions with: We're not Canonical and, because no decision of ours will be binding, discussing it further is futile.
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18:56.22tristanbobYorokobi, sure, Yorokobi , we all know you are really Mark Shuttleworth in disuise
18:56.31Yorokobihah
18:57.15findlay:)
19:38.54Zelutok I just setup seamless desktop between ubuntu host, xp guest in virtualbox.
19:38.59Zelutthis is getting blogged
19:44.26tonedevfwhere's yer blog?
19:45.51Zeluttonedevf: http://ubuntu-tutorials.com
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19:54.41Zeluthttp://zelut.org/projects/misc/images/seamless.png
19:55.07Zelutcomparing three windows and ubuntu apps side by side on the ubuntu desktop
19:55.30Gatewow
19:55.32findlaybecause Zelut is the uber ubuntu tutor
19:56.56ZelutGate: pretty fa-reaking sweet huh :)
19:57.19findlayif you actually *want* to run windows, sure :)
19:57.25GateI am confused, is that windows inside the VM or the other way round
19:58.12findlaywindows hasn't treated me very nicely and as a result I am always convusive when I see the GUI again
19:59.29Gatea math teacher used an analogy the other day: if someone eats McDonald's their whole life, they will think that McDonald's is all they ever need. I have tasted the steak of Linux!
19:59.58ZelutGate: XP is running in a VM but its running in 'seamless mode' which lets you launch just one application at a time.
20:00.22ZelutGate: so instead of having the entire desktop in one window and your native desktop behind you can do both in the same place.
20:00.49Zelutfindlay: agreed. if you need to run windows its cool.  i find however that some of my most popular tutorials are virtualization related
20:01.06findlayZelut: sure, cater to your audience :)
20:01.54Gatebrb
20:02.09tonedevfZelut: that's hella bitchin'
20:02.29tonedevf.. but it looks like you need to run Windows Update ; )
20:04.49Zeluttonedevf: i'll get to that when WGA stops telling me I'm a pirate
20:05.05tonedevfyargh
20:05.29tonedevfdoes virtualbox have the ability to run virtual machines as a system service, similar to how VMWare server can launch machines at boot, pre X session?
20:05.40Zeluti've got a license sticker on my case, yet it says its not valid.
20:06.05Zeluttonedevf: I'm not sure.  I know Xen does, but haven't tried with Virtualbox.
20:06.10tonedevfdid you upgrade the guts in the case?
20:06.21findlaythey know
20:06.28findlaythey know when you blow the dust out
20:06.29Zelutfindlay: they always know
20:07.06findlaythe even know when you don't do anything and Fate has selected you for their condescention
20:08.17Zeluti think that's the boat I'm in
20:08.37tonedevfwith a default install of xp you can set Windows Update to "notify but don't download or install"
20:09.02tonedevfwhen it first notifies you, choose "detailed update", uncheck WGA, grab the rest
20:09.21tonedevfyou can get a fully patched XPSP2 box without ever installing WGA
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20:10.53Zeluttonedevf: good to know.  I rarely run it anyway other than for tutorials and to remind myself what I'm *not* missing
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20:21.54Zeluttonedevf: I'm quoting you in a post.  I hope you don't mind.
20:23.32Zelutbrb
20:38.24tonedevfwhat quote?
20:39.24Zelutpull up the site. you'll see
20:40.24Zeluti can pull it if you want, i just thought it was an entertaining description
20:41.09tonedevf: )
20:41.29tonedevfi'm famous!
20:41.41tonedevfand the quote is sooo profound and timeless
20:54.57Gateyay for public key authentication!
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21:50.54steve8trackhello
21:51.10steve8trackanybody know about the minimal ubuntu?
21:51.47findlayyeah.  It's so small you have to look at it with a microscope
21:51.55steve8trackcool
21:52.00Yorokobihttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Netboot
21:52.01findlay:)
21:52.20steve8trackbut while it installs, does it have to download? or can it install just the bare essential to get to a command line first?
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21:52.49Yorokobisteve8track, that'd be the server install you're looking for
21:53.04Yorokobithe minimal is a network-based install
21:53.15steve8trackI asked mike about a small ubuntu, and he mentioned some ubuntu project, I think it started with a g.  He said it would install only enough to get to a command line, even less than the server install I think.
21:53.29steve8trackso I was hoping to find it, but I can't find mike :-(
21:53.36steve8trackand I can't remember the name
21:53.54Yorokobigobuntu?
21:54.04YorokobiThat's the only one I can think of that starts with a G
21:54.35atoponceYorokobi: i think he's referring to gubuntu, which never took off the ground
21:54.40steve8trackI guess I'll look, but I thought it was something more like ubuntu-gom or ubuntu-geam or something like that
21:54.58atoponcesupposed to be very minimilistic for devs- like a minimalistic debian install
21:55.12atoponcei think that was the name
21:55.31atoponcethen there is gobuntu, which is inspired from gnewsense, with only free software
21:55.58steve8trackI just looked at gobuntu, and it says the system requirements are the same.
21:56.12steve8trackI just want to install just enough to use apt-get
21:56.21steve8track(and ls, cd, etc of course)
21:57.02atoponcegobuntu is just as bloated, it just has only free software, vs binary blob support
21:57.11steve8trackI found a book about making a custom distrobution from scratch, but I thought it would be easier if I could find the base I want already.
21:57.12atoponceit's the only distro supported by the fsf, i guess
21:57.46atoponcesteve8track: you may want to look into debian. grab a 50MB iso, and install a minimal system, with no X, or anything other than the base
21:57.56steve8trackmaybe it didn't start with a g, but mike did say it was just enough to boot to a command line
21:58.18Yorokobisteve8track, ftp://ftp5.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/i386/install42.iso
21:58.20steve8trackdoes that 50MB iso have apt-get installed though by default?
21:58.27steve8trackand ndiswrapper
21:59.05steve8trackhmm, is openBSD a different license than freeBSD?
21:59.05atoponcesteve8track: apt-get yes, ndiswrapper you'd have to install
21:59.33steve8trackthat's my second big problem, the computer I want to install it on doesn't have ethernet
21:59.39atoponcesteve8track: when it says minimalistic on debian, it means *extremely* minimalistic. just the core base to run a debian linux kernel with fs, and that's it
21:59.56steve8trackso I won't be able to get the internet to install it
22:00.04Yorokobisteve8track, you won't find anything like ndiswrapper on OpenBSD
22:00.04steve8trackI guess I could download it to a flash drive
22:00.21steve8trackthanks for all of the info
22:00.23steve8trackwhat's fs?
22:00.33atoponcefilesystem
22:01.24steve8tracklong as it has common terminal commands and opens to consol (without x) and has things like apt-get, nano, ls, cd, and other things I use, I'll be happy.
22:01.31steve8trackand as long as it runs on virtually no ram
22:01.52Yorokobiwhat are you putting it on? an old laptop?
22:02.30atoponcesteve8track: it has all the shell commands
22:02.42steve8trackYorokobi: Yeah, the laptop only has 96MB of ram (it's maxed out too) I tried installing DSL on a computer that had Ubuntu before (better than that laptop)... and
22:02.59steve8trackwierdly enough, DSL didn't run any faster
22:03.29atoponce96MB is pushing it
22:03.41atoponceif DSL isn't runnig any faster, than debian/*bsd won't either
22:03.41steve8trackI thought it would run faster using fluxbox.  It was a computer with about 380 MB or RAM and 400 MHz
22:04.05YorokobiYou may be able to trim some fat by building your own kernel. It'd take a while to compile, but you could, in theory, end up with a smaller kernel.
22:04.30steve8trackatoponce: so even with just the shell, it will have trouble on a computer with 96MB of RAM?
22:05.13steve8trackYorokobi: would that mean compiling the kernel on the slow machine?  LOL that would take time...
22:05.19atoponcesteve8track: you need ram for the kernel, kdump, your shell, and a number of other things. even with no X
22:05.38steve8trackwhat is kdump?  sounds like a kde thing
22:05.59Yorokobisteve8track, not necessarily. You can build it on another machine but then you'd have to package it up, move it over, install it, reboot, and pray it works. :)
22:05.59atoponcethe only thing i would recommend at this point is compiling a kernel with minimal modules, and using a minimal shell, like ash
22:06.13atoponcesteve8track: kdump is a kernel dump utility
22:06.29steve8trackI recently installed wmii on my laptop for fun, I can't beleive they have a desktop environment in less than 100 kilabytes
22:06.42atoponcedash would probably be better, actually
22:07.02steve8trackdash as a Desktop environment?
22:07.07Yorokobias a shell
22:07.09atoponcedebian almquist shell
22:07.28atoponcesmaller, les bloated than bash
22:07.35atoponces/es/ess/
22:09.17atoponceat any event, 96MB is doable, certainly, you're just going to have to roll with the punches i guess, meaning a slower system than what you're used to
22:09.28herloyes, I know its quiet, but you should be able to get on now
22:09.41atoponce?
22:09.41steve8trackit's quiet? lol
22:09.41Yorokobiherlo, you referring to the hearing at the capitol?
22:09.41atoponcewrong window herlo ?
22:09.51herlohttp://stream.utosf.org:8080
22:09.56herloYorokobi: not the wrong window
22:10.00herlohb139
22:10.57YorokobiYep, it is quiet there.
22:12.17Yorokobiherlo, I hear a voice but it is barely audible
22:12.41herlocheck #utos for more information
22:13.35steve8trackMy parents still have a computer (that we don't use anymore ;-)  ) that has only 16MB of ram with Icons that you can move, etc.  It only has a 22 MB hard drive.  What I don't get is how I can't get something like windows 3.1, despite the differences in 16-bit operating systems.  For example, I think it's wierd that DSL (which uses fluxbox) can't move icons without editing text files manually instead of dragging them.  Sorry to mention w
22:13.59steve8trackMaybe I'm over simplifying
22:17.20herlojoin #utos for the discussion in irc
22:18.49steve8trackme?
22:19.53steve8trackYorokobi: you can hear audio now in the irc?
22:21.16Yorokobiheh, no it is for a podcast re: HB139 at the state capitol
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