Dave Laird
2005-01-22 03:40:55 UTC
Good evening, everyone...
I have begun the migration of some of my data files, particularly some of
the scripts I have written for MySQL and various database files over to
the Debian box despite the fact it is desperately short on memory and
other resources. The reason I am doing this is essentially to see how well
Debian-KDE wears under a fairly heavy load, because regardless of which
hardware platform I use, KDE has always been working at maximum capability
for over five years, now.
One of my really big questions is in RedHat of all flavors, there is an
rc.local file that is loaded at the very end, after all the other services
have loaded. I could perhaps plug some of the functions and aliases I call
from rc.local on a RedHat box in rc.S, couldn't I? Other than this minor
bit of business, I really *like* the way the runlevels are handled in
Debian much better than the sometimes difficult scripts in Mandrake and
RedHat.
I *finally* got the KDE Kontact running, at last, but through a very
serpentine route, because in the beginning, all it did was crash, crash,
crash, each time complaining bitterly that it couldn't find a valid
socket. However, I did notice that each time I started it and thusB locked
up
my system, more of its icons (really cools ones, much better than
Mandrake) and functions appeared on the screen. Finally, I sat there
doggedly restarting it about four times until everything came up and
functioned as it does in Mandrake and RedHat. It's a FUNKY way of getting
Kontact to work, but at least now it works and is stable under all kinds
of conditions.
Don't go too far from your computer, James. Jack-in-the-Cave heard me
talking about Debian this morning over coffee, and he is champing at the
bit to get started on a Debian box of his own. Mind you, Jack is not your
basic end-user, but he is very knowledgeable and intuitive about how to
get things done in Mandrake. He has been using Mandrake, more or less
under my tutelage, for over a year now, and handles his accounting
(Moneydance), mail (kmail) and news (pan) all from within KDE. You might
help me break him in to Debian Linux, in particular tell what you know of
its history and how it compares to the "other brands". 8-)
I *did* manage to get my favorite editor, Jed, up and running with inline
spell checking and the screen that I designed that closely resembles
Wordperfect 5.1, right down to some of the keystroke commands. I've tried
all the various editors, and still Jed is my hands-down favorite. I use vi
for anything that is allergic to embedded spaces or other glitches, but I
use Jed for nearly all the various writing projects I do each day.
I've still got a lot of fine-tuning to do, yet, but as soon as I get this
box stable where I want it, I will begin building an archive of Sarge and
burn the CD's to the entire set. Then I will make a master backup of my
Mandrake boxen, and it will eventually become Debian, I think. Debian uses
so much less memory it makes such a decision easy. This old clunker box I
am working on for the last few days would *never* run Mandrake with all
the applications I have running at present. It would crash and burn with
Open Office and Kontact both running at the same time, but here I am
tonight, with both loaded and active. <laughing to myself> Never let it be
said that my final decision has been made, but I am *impressed* with how
much I can do with XWindows and Debian compared directly to Mandrake.
After all, when it comes to a workstation, that's all I want. A little GUI
to make me think I'm still stupid enough to run Windoze, but a busy cron
and various other tools and ointments all running in the background,
allowing me all kinds of freedom. Toss in a little bit of IPTables to make
sure nobody can get to my workstation, and you've got it.
For a first run, this one has been utterly fascinating!
Dave
--
Dave Laird (***@kharma.net)
The Used Kharma Lot
Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 11/24/2004
Usenet news server : news://news.kharma.net
Fortune Random Thought For the Minute
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the
opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
-- Oliver Herford
I have begun the migration of some of my data files, particularly some of
the scripts I have written for MySQL and various database files over to
the Debian box despite the fact it is desperately short on memory and
other resources. The reason I am doing this is essentially to see how well
Debian-KDE wears under a fairly heavy load, because regardless of which
hardware platform I use, KDE has always been working at maximum capability
for over five years, now.
One of my really big questions is in RedHat of all flavors, there is an
rc.local file that is loaded at the very end, after all the other services
have loaded. I could perhaps plug some of the functions and aliases I call
from rc.local on a RedHat box in rc.S, couldn't I? Other than this minor
bit of business, I really *like* the way the runlevels are handled in
Debian much better than the sometimes difficult scripts in Mandrake and
RedHat.
I *finally* got the KDE Kontact running, at last, but through a very
serpentine route, because in the beginning, all it did was crash, crash,
crash, each time complaining bitterly that it couldn't find a valid
socket. However, I did notice that each time I started it and thusB locked
up
my system, more of its icons (really cools ones, much better than
Mandrake) and functions appeared on the screen. Finally, I sat there
doggedly restarting it about four times until everything came up and
functioned as it does in Mandrake and RedHat. It's a FUNKY way of getting
Kontact to work, but at least now it works and is stable under all kinds
of conditions.
Don't go too far from your computer, James. Jack-in-the-Cave heard me
talking about Debian this morning over coffee, and he is champing at the
bit to get started on a Debian box of his own. Mind you, Jack is not your
basic end-user, but he is very knowledgeable and intuitive about how to
get things done in Mandrake. He has been using Mandrake, more or less
under my tutelage, for over a year now, and handles his accounting
(Moneydance), mail (kmail) and news (pan) all from within KDE. You might
help me break him in to Debian Linux, in particular tell what you know of
its history and how it compares to the "other brands". 8-)
I *did* manage to get my favorite editor, Jed, up and running with inline
spell checking and the screen that I designed that closely resembles
Wordperfect 5.1, right down to some of the keystroke commands. I've tried
all the various editors, and still Jed is my hands-down favorite. I use vi
for anything that is allergic to embedded spaces or other glitches, but I
use Jed for nearly all the various writing projects I do each day.
I've still got a lot of fine-tuning to do, yet, but as soon as I get this
box stable where I want it, I will begin building an archive of Sarge and
burn the CD's to the entire set. Then I will make a master backup of my
Mandrake boxen, and it will eventually become Debian, I think. Debian uses
so much less memory it makes such a decision easy. This old clunker box I
am working on for the last few days would *never* run Mandrake with all
the applications I have running at present. It would crash and burn with
Open Office and Kontact both running at the same time, but here I am
tonight, with both loaded and active. <laughing to myself> Never let it be
said that my final decision has been made, but I am *impressed* with how
much I can do with XWindows and Debian compared directly to Mandrake.
After all, when it comes to a workstation, that's all I want. A little GUI
to make me think I'm still stupid enough to run Windoze, but a busy cron
and various other tools and ointments all running in the background,
allowing me all kinds of freedom. Toss in a little bit of IPTables to make
sure nobody can get to my workstation, and you've got it.
For a first run, this one has been utterly fascinating!
Dave
--
Dave Laird (***@kharma.net)
The Used Kharma Lot
Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 11/24/2004
Usenet news server : news://news.kharma.net
Fortune Random Thought For the Minute
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the
opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
-- Oliver Herford