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Paul Sutton wrote:
Me too, I ran SuSE for a little while, I also had SuSE 6.2 (box set with proper manuals) and RedHat 5.2, and I also dabbled with RedHat 7, 8 and 9, oh and Debian on my server. My first distro was Slackware.I agree, I like ubuntu, but before that I used debian, before that I used suse, redhat and slackware.
I tried caldera it failed to let me log in :(
Did you buy a Linux license?
I don't see why, I mean these things will be updated by system updates anyway so no doubt after a week or two the text file would be out of date.I think what ever distro we put people on we need to make sure that the new user has a text file with Distro name and version kernel version versions of various libraries perhaps list of hardware
or I am sure its possible to get all this info from a shell script (any ideas) which can be run, and it dumps said info in to a file.
Well there is lsb_release -a rob@aspire:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10 Codename: karmic
I'd say giving them the name and version of the distro would be more help such as...that way if they ever need help they can copy / paste the info from that file in to an e-mail or something, so the person helping can have an idea of where to start.
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) i386 Desktop, Fedora 12 (Contantine) AMD64, Debian 5.0 (Lenny) Alpha etc...
it also helps you as you can keep a record on who has what installed, so if you get called to help they haev a kind of personal file with the info in.
dpkg --get-selectionsAgain things can change, I never really make a note of individual packages I install, especially if they have a whole load of dependencies.
Um... that doesn't make any sense to me. Do you mean help uses help themselves?We need to help new users to help us to help them.
To be honest, a lot of stuff works across the board on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. It's only certain things which may not work. I've found more of an issue when running 32-Bit Windows stuff on Windows XP/Vista/7 x64 (64-Bit).A lot of people using windows will say they are using windows, hardly helpful when that is usually XP , vista or Windows 7.
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